Just when a business is tempted to
conclude that they can put off that expenditure on a fire extinguisher
service for a few more months, comes a reminder of the potential
consequences of failing to keep up with the very highest fire safety standards
- or rather, several reminders. The truth is that fire can strike at the least
predictable of times, with differing levels of risk to life and property. If
one needed any evidence of that, they only needed to read the news for the last
few days alone.
Across the UK, more fires have been
causing widespread damage and loss, although mercifully, injuries and deaths
appear to have been kept to a minimum. One only needs to look to Norfolk for an
example of just how unforeseeable a fire can be, with an actual fire engine and
fire station having been destroyed in a blaze overnight in Downham Market. In a
demonstration of how even the fire services themselves aren't immune to fire
affecting their own property, this conflagration started in the bay housing the
station's fire engine, and needed to be tackled by crews from other areas.
Although nearby houses were momentarily evacuated, nobody was hurt.
Another reminder of just how vital a
fire
extinguisher service can prove was a fire that broke out in an Essex
church, causing the evacuations of homes and leaving five people in need of
treatment for the effects of smoke inhalation. The fire was out by 05:38 on
Monday morning, less than an hour and a half after it was reported, although
that was still sufficient time to damage a quarter of the Seventh-Day Adventist
Church in Northview Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea.
Meanwhile, in Burscough in west
Lancashire on Tuesday morning, reports emerged of a large fire at the empty
Burscough Mill in Mill Lane. Although the fire was out by breakfast time,
having broken out at around 03:00 GMT, it still required the attention of more
than 60 fire-fighters, in addition to the evacuation of some 100 homes.
At the opposite end of the country,
meanwhile, in Dartmouth, Devon, an almost 70 year old pleasure boat sustained
damage in a fire on an estuary. Putting out the fire on the 51ft (15.5m)
charter vessel in the Dart Estuary was a big job, forcing the attendance of
Dartmouth fire crews, coastguard rescue teams and two lifeboats, particularly
as in the words of Dartmouth harbourmaster Rob Giles, "It kept
re-igniting. It had 700 litres of diesel on board and it's a wooden
vessel."
Clearly, then, fire safety remains a
vital priority as businesses and private individuals of all kinds head towards
the summer. Triple Star Fire is happy to assist such firms by providing the
most extensive fire safety services and products, including the most suitable
fire extinguisher service.
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