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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A fire tore through a home for the elderly in western Ukraine Sunday, killing 16 people, officials said. The Emergencies Ministry said in a statement that 11 others were injured in the fire in the village of Bile, in the Rovno region, some 300 kilometers (180 miles) west of the capital Kiev. There were 25 residents and two staff members in the wood-and-concrete building when the fire broke out shortly after midnight, the ministry said. Firefighters ...

Around 1500 people were evacuated from the prestigious Hilton Park Lane hotel in London after a fire started in a basement kitchen of the hotel.

Eight fire engines and around 40 firefighters, who were called at around d 6.45pm on 1 July, managed to get the fire under control by 11.00pm.

Ducting between the basement and the fourth floor was damaged.

Earlier in the day, the hotel had hosted a music awards ceremony attended by stars including Liza Minelli and Annie Lennox, according ...

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London Fire Brigade has issued an urgent warning about the fire risk of certain fridge-freezers, following confirmation that a blaze last week in a London tower block was caused by a faulty appliance.

Beko fridge-freezers manufactured between January 2000 and October 2006 are at the centre of the safety warning, and it is thought as many as 500,000 could be in use. London Fire Brigade say there have been 20 fires in the capital alone involving the fridge freezers since 2008, ...

The managing agent of a block of flats in London has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay almost £13,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety law.

Douglas and Gordon Ltd pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Southwark crown court on 29 June. The leasehold owner of the premises in Gloucester Terrace, Paddington, Atomlynn Ltd, was fined £33,000 after pleading guilty to one offence under the Order and ordered ...

The management of Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, which last week suffered a serious affecting three floors, had been alerted to concerns over fire safety at the hotel just three weeks before the blaze.

Fire safety consultant Alan Cox wrote to the hotel after staying there last month. Among his concerns were fire doors with hold open devices removed, poorly fitting fire doors, fire doors without smoke seals, cable penetrations not sealed, queries on the siting and/or absence of a number of ...

The manager of a care home that was the scene of a fatal fire has been found guilty of a fire safety breach.

Karen Sykes, 41, from Sale, pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court on 18 March following the fire at Oldfield Bank Residential Care Home. She was fined £500 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £15. The charge was for breach of article 23 of the Fire Safety Order – a failure to take care of herself and ...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay out thousands of pounds after putting tenants’ lives in danger.

Adrian Francis Lasrado was prosecuted under the Housing Act  in connection with a second-floor property on London Road, Hackbridge, Sutton, which had been converted into a self-contained flat.

The layout was so badly done there was no safe means of escape if there was a fire, according to Sutton Council. This prompted the council’s environmental health officers to impose a prohibition order banning people ...