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Free Home Safety Check
Your local Fire & Rescue Service personnel would like to make an appointment to visit you in your home and carry out a free fire safety check to help reduce the number of deaths and injuries that occur and protect you and your family against the risk of fire. A visit will involve checking for any potential fire hazards, giving advice where necessary and fitting a smoke detector if applicable. East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service are particularly interested in attending the properties of 'at risk' groups, such as the elderly or single parent families, although we will visit anyone who needs our help.
Accidents will always happen but that makes it all the more important to do all that we can to prevent unnecessary death and injury through fire related incidents in our homes. People always think that a fire in their home will never happen to them, however fire doesn’t discriminate. It can happen anywhere, to anyone and ensuring that you have correctly fitted, working smoke alarms is one simple way of helping to keep yourself and your family safe.
For most of us, smoke alarms are now part of our ongoing home maintenance, but in every community there are still a few who are unable to take advantage of this life-saving piece of technology. We would like to access as many of these people as possible, so if you have a friend or neighbour who may benefit from our help or you’d like to arrange a visit for yourself please call Freephone number 0800 177 7069.
Did you know?
- You are more than twice as likely to die in a fire at home if you haven’t got a smokealarm.
- If you inhale just two breaths of toxic smoke you will be unconscious.
- Home fires are the main cause of fire deaths 500 deaths and 11,000 injuries caused by fire in the home every year could be avoided with a correctly fitted and working smoke alarm.
- An alarm fitted at each level of your home is the simplest single step to reducing the risk of fire death.
- A smoke alarm should be tested once a week and the whole unit replaced every ten years.
Remember: A fire doesn’t have to kill you to take your life…
For information about any other areas we can help you with, please contact one of the following people:
Borough Commander Garry Collins 01323 462803
Lewes/Newhaven Ron Kirkwood 01323 462161
Community Safety Advisors:
Gemma Wakeham/Karen Calnan 07852 972786
Station Admin - Pam Barker 01323 462175
To arrange your FREE home visit please call: 0800 177 7069
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