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The public has been urged to take action to stop their household bin from going up in flames and putting their home at risk from fire in an important safety message from Shropshire firefighters.

A short film clip re-enacting the dangers posed from a blazing bin deliberately set on fire and positioned in the porch of a house has been produced by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.

It will be shown in schools across the county to educate pupils about the danger with the more

An innovative fire prevention scheme to encourage those "most in need" to have a free home safety check has been launched by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service in Ludlow.

Community Fire Safety Officers have linked up with Ludlow's largest medical practice in a pilot scheme to urge elderly and vulnerable people to have a home fire safety visit from Ludlow retained firefighters.

Doctors at the Station Drive surgery said they were pleased to be asociated with a scheme that further more

Background

On 1 October 2006 a new piece of legislation was introduced into the UK to help safeguard all workplace premises from fire. This fire safety law is called the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It replaces numerous other pieces of legislation and means now you have one set of rules to comply with, regarding fire safety.

To assist businesses meet this new legislation Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is offering all businesses within Shropshire the more

Background

On 1 October 2006 a new piece of legislation was introduced into the UK to help safeguard all workplace premises from fire. This fire safety law is called the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It replaces numerous other pieces of legislation and means now you have one set of rules to comply with, regarding fire safety.

To assist businesses meet this new legislation Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is offering all businesses within Shropshire the more

Background

On 1 October 2006 a new piece of legislation was introduced into the UK to help safeguard all workplace premises from fire. This fire safety law is called the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It replaces numerous other pieces of legislation and means now you have one set of rules to comply with, regarding fire safety.

To assist businesses meet this new legislation Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is offering all businesses within Shropshire the more

Detectives investigating a series of suspected arson attacks on a Shrewsbury estate have charged a man with arson at one of the properties.

The 18-year-old was arrested this morning (23 December) at an address in Shrewsbury.
He has been interviewed and was this evening charged with arson at a house in Reedham Road, on the Herongate Estate, at about 11pm on Wednesday 1 December.

He will be remanded in custody overnight and is due to appear before Shrewsbury Magistrates' more

Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority wish to reassure the community and staff from the Service that the recent article in the Shrewsbury Chronicle (Thursday, 23 December 2010) entitled ‘Town Fire Station HQ Project is Scrapped’ together with the supporting paragraph, is wholly inaccurate. The remainder of the article relates the cancellation of the national fire control project (which is correct).

It would appear that the two articles have been merged, one fact based, one extremely more

An almost 28 per cent the Government spending cut in the county’s fire and rescue service grant over the next four years is “very worrying” for Shropshire’s future, warned the Chair of the Shropshire and Wrekin fire authority.

Councillor Stuart West said the Government’s newly announced grant reductions were “a great disappointment” and worse than expected.

But he vowed that the fire and rescue service across Shropshire, Telford and the Wrekin would be protected for the next more

Special Constables based in Telford will be on hand from Thursday 16th December until Saturday 18th December to support a fire safety event that Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are holding in Telford Shopping Centre.

The event has been organised by the fire service so they can pass on safety tips to local people ahead of the Christmas break to ensure that nothing is allowed to spoil what should be an exciting time for everyone.

To support the event, more

Police in Shropshire today issued a warning to keep off frozen ponds and lakes following an incident in Shrewsbury where a young boy fell through ice.

The incident happened on a pond behind Battlefield Plaza, near the DVLA centre on Saturday afternoon.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service alerted police that one of its crews had come across four boys, aged about 10 or 11 playing on the frozen surface. One was wet to the waist having apparently fallen through the ice.

A more

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