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Now for those of you who read my bloggage last month about fire blankets, you should already know a bit about them. For those of you that didn’t read it, the basic function of a fire blanket is to starve a fire of oxygen. Without oxygen, the fire cannot burn, and therefore it goes out [...]

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What’s a Fire Hose Reel?

25 February 2010

Have you ever noticed, whilst wending your way around the offices and buildings of our lovely country, that sometimes you will happen upon a fire hose reel. Now, maybe it’s not that unexpected, and maybe it’s not something you pay that much attention to. But maybe you should. What do you know about these items? [...]

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Fire blanket ahoy!

31 January 2010

Good morning to you lovely reader (well, it’s morning for me, Sunday morning to be specific, but then you could be reading this at any time of the day or night, so maybe just ‘hello’ would be better.) So, hello lovely reader. Today’s bloggage is about that perennial favourite – the fire blanket. What do [...]

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Call the Fire Marshall!!

26 January 2010

Please close your eyes. No wait, then you won’t be able to read this. Hmmm…okay, DON’T close your eyes, but go to that piece of your imagination that lets you see situations. And imagine this one. There is a fire at work. Flames, smoke, electricity off, alarms – the whole shebang. Now in this situation, [...]

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Now, if I said the word ‘intumescent’ to you, would you know what I meant? Chances are, the answer is ‘no’. Or at least I hope it is, because until I wrote this blog, I had absolutely no clue what the word meant, in fact I had never actually heard it, so it didn’t even [...]

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Alarm your Clock

6 January 2010

Smoke alarms and fire alarms are there to alert you to the fact that there is a fire a-happening in the near vicinity. You can’t really fail to notice a fire alarm bell. It is loud. Very loud. Annoyingly, ear-splittingly loud. So you hear the alarm, you vacate the building, some nice men in, let’s [...]

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Fabulous Offer

4 January 2010

So, Christmas is over. The New Year has arrived. All feeling rather deflated that the holidays are now behind us? Well, we have an extra special offer for you, to try and perk you up out of those winter blues.
As the billy bestest place for you for purchase all your fire safety equipment, we have [...]

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Protect Thy Backups

22 December 2009

There are many ways to protect your valuable data from fire damage. I am going to tell you about two of them. One way is to use fireproof boxes, which does exactly what the name suggests. The other is a fireproof external hard drive which attaches to your computer and, again as the name suggests, [...]

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Flying Florida Foam Mystery

21 December 2009

Story in the news this week – people in St Petersburg (the American one, not the former Russian capital city) were mightily amused and confused to see bits of foam floating through the air in the city. Some said that it looked like feathers, others said it looked like soapy foam. It was up high [...]

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Fancy getting your mitts on an ipod nano in time for the festive season. Well, the lovely folks at Fire Protection Online are not only the providers of all manner of tip top fire fighting equipment, but also offering you the chance to win one of these ipod lovelies.
All you need to do is to [...]

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