Staff at a fire-wrecked pub in Northampton have been praised by a fire officer for their quick actions in helping customers to safety.
Sixfields Tavern became engulfed in flames at about 14:30 GMT on Saturday afternoon.
Eighty firefighters worked for five hours to contain the fire and no-one was hurt.
Minor demolition work is to be carried out, as police and firefighters assess the damaged site.
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According to the National Fire Protection Association, in 2010 an estimated 16,800 involved tumble dryers or washing machines.
Deep cleaning your tumble dryer clears lint and significantly reduces the risk of fire.
Find out more including how to ensure your tumble dryer doesn't become a killer by following the link
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Firefighters were called to a Fife home after a laptop overheated and caused ‘extensive damage’.
The emergency services attended a house in Garry Park in Glencraig just after 11.30pm last night.
The blaze started after the laptop, which was plugged in, overheated and set alight the carpet it was sitting on.
Three fire crews attended the scene and extinguished the blaze in the bedroom of the property.
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London Fire Brigade has criticised Sainsbury’s new Christmas advert that shows a turkey catch fire in a home that appears to have no smoke alarms.
The advert, which has already been a huge hit online, stars Mog the accident-prone cat, a well-loved character from books by children's author Judith Kerr.
The commercial shows the Thomas family asleep in bed on Christmas Eve, while Mog inadvertently starts two fires, but manages to dial 999.
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Electric Fire Safety Week aims to highlight the biggest cause of accidental fires at home in Northern Ireland and NIFRS are urging homeowners to be careful when loading plug sockets with electrical equipment.
In 2014/15, there have been 616 fires across Northern Ireland which have been determined as being as a result of accidental electrical related incidents. Tragically during this time, three people have lost their lives as a result of accidental dwelling fires involving electricity. There has been an increase of 6% in the number of incidents of this nature across Northern Ireland compared to figures from last year.
Alan Walmsley, Assistant Chief Fire Officer Community Protection, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service said: “Electrical Fire Safety Week provides a timely reminder for everyone to make sure that our homes are fire safe. No-one is immune to the danger of fire and fire does not discriminate. It can happen to any one of us and electrical appliances are a staple of modern life.
“By following some simple steps like ensuring your electrical appliances are fit for purpose and being used in the correct manner, you can help keep your loved ones safe.
“The majority of electrical fires start in the kitchen, so extra care is needed when using cooking appliances and never leave cooking unattended. Simple, common sense tasks, such as unplugging appliances when not in use, not overloading plug sockets and keeping appliances clean and in good working order all help to reduce the risk of fire.
“Make sure you have a working smoke alarm fitted, check it is working this Electrical Fire Safety Week and get into the habit of checking it every week. This life saving device will alert you to the earliest stage of a fire giving you and your family vital time to escape. Also make sure you have a fire escape plan and that everyone in the household knows how to escape safely in the event of a fire.”
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Seventeen people have been killed and 71 injured after a fire ripped through a crowded karaoke club in Indonesia.
Witnesses told authorities the fire started at around 1am on the second floor of the three-storey building on Indonesia's Sulawesi island.
Hundreds of people were singing in private rooms at the Inul Vizta Karaoke club in central Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province.
Police chief Colonel Rio Permana said workers were unable to put out fires with extinguishers.
Many complained that fire engines arrived an hour after the alarm was raised.
It took firefighters several hours to bring the blaze under control.
"We are still investigating the cause of fire," the police chief said, but a preliminary investigation indicated a short circuit.
He said some panicked people smashed windows and fled into the street while many others were stuck in choking black smoke.
There was only one access door to the building, police said.
All 17 people who died were Indonesians. Most died from smoke inhalation injuries rather than burns, Mr Permana said.
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Many of the children who go to accident and emergency with a burn or a scald are referred on for further hospital treatment. Recovery may be long and painful and many are left with permanent scarring.
Hot drinks cause most scalds to children under the age of five. A child's skin is much more sensitive than an adult's and a hot drink can still scald a child 15 minutes after being made. Young children are also very vulnerable to sunburn.
Hot bath water is responsible for the highest number of fatal and severe scalding injuries among young children. Around 500 children, mainly under fives, are admitted to hospital and a further 2000 attend A&E departments every year as a result of bath water scalds.
Children can also suffer burns after contact with open fires, a cooker, irons, curling tongs and hair straighteners, cigarettes, matches, cigarette lighters and many other hot surfaces.
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A man has died in a workplace incident in Enniskillen.
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service was called to the scene at Ely Lodge area just after 10am.
The man was taken to the South West Acute Hospital.
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) were notified and is currently investigating
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Man's Family at this difficult time.
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Residents in an Irish apartment complex are facing a 4m euro (£2.95m) bill or possible evacuation over fire safety failings in their building.
About 900 people live in 300 apartments in the Longboat Quay complex in Dublin's docklands.
It was built by developer Bernard McNamara in 2006, with buyers paying as much as 750,000 euro (£550,000) for the properties.
But serious fire safety deficiencies were uncovered last year.
Dublin Docklands Development Authority, the nominal landlord, has so far paid 1m euro (£735,000) to fix the fire alarm system.
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HSENI's latest annual report has confirmed that workplace deaths have increased sharply to 23 during 2014/2015
This compares to 8 workplace deaths in 2013/2014 and is significantly higher than the average over the last 5 years of 15 deaths per year.
Farming has the worst safety record with more fatalities across all age groups than any other sector.
Copies of the report including a key facts and figures summary can be accessed at the following link
http://www.hseni.gov.uk/news.htm?id=18592&sharp-rise-in-workplace-deaths-last-year
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Toast lovers are being reminded that burnt bread can be more than a breakfast spoiler, after a flat fire in Sutton yesterday.
The fire is believed to have started after the occupant who had been cooking toast in the oven became distracted, causing the toast to burn. He then threw burning toast into a plastic waste bin, before turning off the oven and leaving the room.
Around half an hour later he heard a noise in the kitchen and returned to discover a fire on the top of the plastic waste bin. The man and six other people from adjoining flats left the building before the arrival of the Brigade and fortunately no-one was injured.
Part of the kitchen was damaged by the fire, which completely destroyed two plastic waste bins and the rest of the flat suffered smoke damage.
A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: "You should never leave cooking unattended, not even toast - if you have to leave the room, turn the heat off. If you later find your cooking has burnt allow it to coolbefore throwing it away, especially if you are discarding it in a plastic waste bin."
Below are the Brigade’s three top tips on safety in the kitchen:
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HBSC Ltd are proud to be supporting Fire Door Safety Week.
Fire Doors save life and property and as a proud supporter of Fire Door Safety Week, we want to provide you all with some simple useful information that can lead to saving lives. Over the next few days we will be posting articles, videos etc. which we hope you will find useful and thought provoking and raising awareness of the importance of Fire Doors, whether you work in an Office, Warehouse, Care Home, Shop, in fact any workplace.
Remember Sophie is a short video we would like you all to watch,
A farmer has been killed and his brother seriously injured after being attacked by a bull.
The dead man, aged in his 60s, suffered fatal injuries on the family farm in the townland of Toulett between Burt and Newtowncunningham in Co Donegal.
Gardai said the alarm was raised when the two men were found on their land by another man, believed to be a cousin, at about 2.30pm.
The injured brother, also believed to be aged in his 60s, was taken to Letterkenny General Hospital.
The men are well known in the Burt area with a large extended family and farm hilly land a few hundred metres from Grianan of Aileach hill fort.
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Care and nursing home managers responsible for the fire safety of their residents are being urged to get involved in Fire Door Safety Week, taking place this year from 14-20 September.
The award-winning, national campaign aims to raise awareness of the critical importance of fire doors in saving lives and protecting property.
While about three million fire doors are bought and installed in the UK every year, they remain a significant area of neglect. Often the first thing to be downgraded on a specification and mismanaged throughout their service life, fire doors are frequently propped open, damaged and badly maintained.
Some of the latest fire statistics show that between 2013/14, 527 fires occurred in London care homes and sheltered accommodation, with 10 fires a week taking place in the capital’s care homes.
A steady stream of prosecutions under the Fire Safety Order also continues to affect the sector – take for example the case of a Paignton care home owner who was recently fined £19,500 and ordered to pay more than £5,000 in costs for “very, very serious offences” including damaged fire doors, some of which had missing self-closing devices.
The statistics show that there are many lessons on fire safety that need to be learned to either avert potential disasters or ensure they never happen again.
The Fire Door Safety Week campaign highlights the need for all care and nursing home managers to be fully informed of their responsibilities under the Fire Safety Order, and to understand the correct specification, supply, installation, operation, inspection and maintenance of fire doors.
Care and nursing home managers can access free resources in the Fire Door Safety Week toolkit to help spread the word about fire door safety. These include technical checklists to help with fire door inspections, helpful videos, and posters that can be used in any multi-occupancy building to educate residents on simple fire door safety rules.
There are many other ways to get involved, including promoting fire door safety messages on Twitter and other social media, and carrying out onsite inspections of a building’s fire doors.
Up to a third of all road traffic incidents may involve somebody who is driving as part of their work at the time (TRL).1
Health and safety law applies to work activities on the road and it is an employer’s responsibility to manage the risks to drivers. Effective management of work-related road safety helps reduce risk, no matter what size your organisation is. It could also result in:
• fewer injuries to drivers;
• reduced risk of work-related ill health
For further information on what your responsibilities as an Employer are click on the link which will take you to 'Driving at Work - An Employer's Guide' produced by the DOENI and HSENI.
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/driving-at-work-northern-ireland-an-employers-guide.pdf?rev=0
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Designer clothing company Hugo Boss has been fined £1.2m over the death of a young boy crushed by a mirror at its Bicester Village store.
Austen Harrison, four, suffered fatal head injuries at the Oxfordshire outlet store in June 2013.
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Austin Harrison suffered "irreversible " brain damage after a large mirror fell on top of him
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