Archive for "house fire"
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Carelessness in the kitchen can cost lives
Monday 25 March 2019
Each year cooking causes more accidental fires in the home than anything else.
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No working smoke alarms at terraced house fire in Redditch
Tuesday 05 February 2019
Two Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service crews from Redditch were called to reports of a terraced house fire at around 12:15 on 3 February 2019.
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House fire in Much Marcle
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Six fire engines from Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service as well as one from Gloucester Fire and Rescue Service attended a house fire at Much Marcle.
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Fire at five terraced homes in Redditch
Tuesday 29 January 2019
Five fire engines from Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, three from Redditch and two from Bromsgrove, as well as one from Billesley in the West Midlands Fire Service attended a fire involving five terraced properties in Other Road, Redditch at 17:33 on Saturday 26 January 2019.
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Cottage thatched roof completely destroyed by fire
Friday 14 December 2018
HWFRS responded to a thatched roof fire at a residential property in Broughton Green, Droitwich.
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Preventing electrical heating house fires
Monday 26 November 2018
In the last three years 15% of house fires in Herefordshire and Worcestershire were caused by heating appliances, resulting in two deaths and 18 injuries. Here HWFRS offers advice to avoid winter warming becoming a seasonal tragedy.
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Electrical extension cable cause of Cotheridge House Fire
Friday 02 November 2018
The investigation of the fatal house fire in Cotheridge on Sunday 28 October has concluded that it was accidentally caused by the over-heating of an unwound electrical extension reel located under furniture.
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Two fatalities at Cotheridge house fire
Monday 29 October 2018
At 19:49 on Sunday 28 October Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (HWFRS) was called to a fire at a residential property in Bromyard Road, Cotheridge.
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