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Are you into fashion? Do you know your Galliano from your Gabbana? Do Gucci, Prada, and Armani sound like fashion designers or Italian waiters? Well, whether you are into it or not, fashion has a big impact on all our lives, even if you don’t realise it. From the clothes that you wear to the [...]
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Tags: Camden Roundhouse, fire alarm, London Fashion Week
Posted in Fire safety in the news by Hannah
You hear KFC and you think yummy fried chicken in a spicy coating, fries, coleslaw, fizzy drinks, and general calorific goodness. Your mind does not, generally, skip immediately to fire safety equipment. Well, maybe not for much longer.
The fast-food chain KFC is giving the princely sum of $7,500 to Indianapolis and Brazil (the Indiana city, [...]
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Did you know that there was a fire museum in the wilds of Kentshire? No? Well, that’s okay, because until today, neither did I. (That’s not to say that it is only okay for you to not know things that I don’t know either, but am trying to show some solidarity here – no disparagement [...]
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Scary news from Welsh shores today. Film fans in Swansea got a wee bit more than they bargained for during a filming of the blockbusting film ‘Avatar’. During the gunfire and explosions on screen, there was a small amount of pyrotechnics taking place off screen, as a speaker In the Vue cinema in Swansea caught [...]
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Tags: cinema, CO2 fire extinguisher, news
Posted in Fire extinguishers Fire safety in the news by Hannah
Article in the news this week, which highlights how easily house fires can take hold. A 48 year old grandmother was very lucky when she escaped a cooker blaze which took place in her kitchen. She was grilling toast in the morning, and forgot to turn off the grill when she had finished.
Ms Williams, who [...]
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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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Halloween celebrations are quite a big thing in Universities. Think lots of students in a relatively small area, with an excuse to dress up and get a wee bit tipsy on some (usually very cheap) wine. The boys can dress up as girls (and invariably they will do this at the drop of a hat [...]
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Now fire exit signs may not be the most exciting of items, but they can save lives, and as it turns out, can save you pennies. Allow me to reveal my reasoning…
In the news this week, it’s been reported that the High Street fashion chain New Look have been fined a record-breaking (and rather chastening) [...]
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So, some local urchins are messing about with some fireworks near your house. One of them goes slightly astray and sets one of your bushes alight in the garden. Yikes! So, you rush out and extinguish the fire, but in the meantime one of your neighbours calls the fire brigade. A few weeks later, you [...]
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Posted in Fire safety in the news by Hannah
I read a really sad article today about an inquest into the deaths of seven people in a house fire. During the inquest, a recording of the 999 call was played out, and the voice of one of the children can be heard screaming for help. The article tells how the family of the deceased [...]
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