Blog posts

National Fire Chiefs Council Chair Roy Wilsher reports on programmes and projects of work flowing from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry phase 1 report.

Fire management arrangements for complex sites such as educational premises (new and old) require strategic planning and financial commitments to be made at the highest level to ensure schools are prepared. A blog from Dorset Fire Protection.

All tenants deserve to live in homes which are safe, writes ECA Director of Technical Mike Smith.

Each kind of disaster poses its own kind of risk to the home, and we need to be vigilant in dealing with all of them. Clay Morrison writes on the specific fire safety risks involved.

While electric radiators have proven to be the safest and most efficient method of home heating, cheaper or older models can still pose a risk to your home due to poor fire safety mechanisms, overheating, and increased risk of electrical fires.

 National Fire Chiefs Council Chair Roy Wilsher reports on the additional work fire and rescue services are undertaking supporting the response to the pandemic.The current Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world we currently live in; it would have been almost unimaginable at the start of the year to predict the situation we now find ourselves in. I do not recall any of the many pandemic exercises I have been involved in over the years having an inject that included lockdown.The work carried out by the National Fire Chiefs Council has happened at pace and continues to do so. By working closely with the Home Office and other government departments, the unions and employers we are ensuring a single professional voice. NFCC has led on PPE procurement, communication, testing and the production of national guidance across service delivery areas to, to support fire services and reduce pressure locally.

The Coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest public health crisis faced globally, impacting every aspect of our lives. Professor Paresh Wankhade writes that while the nation has been saluting the selfless devotion of frontline staff by clapping and banging drums in the streets, this may not be enough.

With the COVID-19 pandemic on everyone’s minds at the moment, homeowners may be forgiven if fire safety has slipped down the pecking order of their concerns. But with people spending more time at home, fire safety is arguably more important as it has ever been before. Here we explore why.

Matthew Ellis, Staffordshire Commissioner for Police, Fire and Rescue and Crime, reports on the current governance arrangements for fire, giving his take on shortcomings to the current set-up and how it can be improved.

 This issue of FIRE magazine delves behind the headlines to spark wider debate as FIRE correspondents comment on the need for fire sector leaders to up their game, as well as giving praise for the Fire Service response to the flooding across the UK and calls for a boost in funding from government to support the response.