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Stay Safe from Fire
Download the fire safety advice checklist to see if your home is safe from fire. You could use it to check your home every week. Take the checklist around your home to check if it is safe from fire. Remember, this could save your life!
Doing some simple things can stop a fire starting in your home which could save your life. A smoke alarm can save your life. It will make a loud beeping noise to warn you if there is a fire. This could give you time to escape. One of the most common causes of fire is electrical. Please take a moment to review these points.



ber of proactive measures to ensure that it continues to provide the same support to residents and businesses in County Durham and Darlington. These actions have included the use of its fleet of 4x4 vehicles for both operational and support roles and increased community safety advice. In addition the service is providing assistance to ambulance crews. The Service will assist the ambulance service by ensuring paramedics and medical crews can reach patients where the ambulance service vehicles can not attend. Trained drivers from the Fire Service will meet the ambulance crews where driving conditions become too hazardous for ambulances and take them to incidents in the 4x4 vehicles, demonstrating a real partnership approach to ensuring communites are safe.

Test the batteries in your smoke alarm once a week. You could do this at the same time every week to help you remember. Press the button on your smoke alarm until it makes a loud beeping noise. If you do not hear anything, please contact Community Safety team on telephone 0191.332.4222 or
Tel: 0191.384.3381
Fax: 0191.383.0907
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