Fire Safety Advice

Every year Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service is called out to about 4000 fires in the home, of which 350 result in injury or death. HFRS can provide a Home Fire Safety Check free of charge. Just call 023 8062 6809.
 
Ten top tips on how to make your house a safe home:

• Fit a smoke alarm and check it regularly.
• Make a fire action plan so that everyone in your house knows how to escape in the event of fire.
• Take care when cooking with hot oil and think about using thermostatically controlled deep fat fryers.
• Never leave lit candles unattended.
• Ensure cigarettes are stubbed out and disposed of carefully.
• Never smoke in bed.
• Keep matches and lighters away from children.
• Keep clothing away from heating appliances.
• Take care in the kitchen! Accidents whilst cooking account for 59% of fires in the home.

Take special care when you are tired or when you've been drinking. Half of all deaths in domestic fires happen between 10pm and 8am.
If you or a member of your household has any difficulty seeing, hearing of moving about the home, you will need to take extra care to deal with the risk of a fire.
For more information on Fire Safety go to www.firekills.gov.uk
 
The following organisations can give you advice on what equipment is best for you (e.g., special smoke alarms, sprinkler systems or refuges).
 
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
Headquarters, Leigh Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 9SJ
023 8064 4000/023 8064 3178
www.hantsfire.gov.uk
 
Age Concern
Astral House, 1268 London Road, London SW16 4ER
0800 009 966
www.ageconcern.org.uk
 
Disabled Living Foundation
380-384 Harrow Road, London W9 2HU
020 7 289 6111
www.dlf.org.uk
 
Fire Sprinklers Association
Park Court, Brimpton, Reading RG7 4ST
0118 971 2322
www.firesprinklers.info
 
Help the Aged
207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ
020 7 278 1114
www.helptheaged.org.uk
 
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (RADAR)
Unit 12, City Forum, 250 City Road, London EC1V 8AF
020 7 250 3222
www.radar.org.uk
 
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Edgbaston Park, 353 Bristol Road, Birmingham B5 7ST
0121 248 2000
www.rospa.co.uk