When it comes to fire safety, prevention is definitely better than cure.
The number of people dying or being injured from fires is reducing, but any deaths or injuries are too many.
A hard-hitting advertising campaign to raise awareness about the work that Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service carries out to prevent fires hits ITV screens on Monday, 6 August for six weeks.
The advert shows a firefighter carrying out a home fire risk assessment, with the voiceover: “The more of this we do….” then cuts to a dramatic short of a firefighter rescuing a girl from a burning house continuing: “…the less of this we do.”
Last year alone, Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service put out over 14,000 fires but it prevented a lot more through a range of initiatives including free home fire safety checks and working with schools, local authorities, the police and other partners on fire prevention and education schemes.
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service pioneered many community safety initiatives to prevent fires from happening e.g. Young Firefighters Association, Firesetters, SMARTrisk, Phoenix Project, Fostering Network, which are now copied right across the UK.
Today’s firefighter does much more than put out fires; they carry out a wide range of prevention work too. At least 1,000 free home safety checks are carried out per fire station. In 2006 this resulted in 58% of fires we were called to having being alerted by a smoke alarm – in 1995 this was only 4%, beating all the other metropolitan fire and rescue services.
Free Home Fire Safety Check
For a
FREE Home Fire Safety Check from Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, including the fitting of free smoke alarms where appropriate, please complete the
Home Fire Safety Check request form (you will be redirected to the National Fire Gateway site). We are currently targeting our resources to those households most at risk, but will attend to you as soon as possible should you request this service.
Whilst your waiting for your free Home Fire Safety Check, why not carry out your own Safety Check by completing the
self check questionairre.
General fire safety advice
For general fire safety advice including things like cooking safely and electrical safety visit please visit our
Fire Safety at Home pages.
Keeping you safe in your community
For details on local initiatives and education programmes which are working to keep you safer visit our
Community pages.
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