Posts Tagged 'fire safety'

An investigation into a fire on a cross-Channel ferry that left passengers trapped for over 20 hours has resulted in new fire safety recommendations for ferry and port operators, and emergency services.

The June 2010 blaze occurred on the Commodore Clipper which was making a routine overnight crossing from Jersey to Portsmouth, and was exacerbated by a number of problems and mistakes as well as confusion, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch report says.

The alarm was originally, and wrongly, believed to be ...

New European regulations came into force this week making it compulsory for all cigarettes sold in the EU to extinguish if they are not actively smoked.

The so-called reduced ignition propensity cigarettes have special bands at intervals down the length of the cigarette paper, so that they extinguish themselves when they are not puffed on. Fire chiefs estimate they could cut the number of smoking related fires and fire deaths by two thirds.

The careless disposal of smoking materials is the most ...