Entries by Heather

Soho tailor fire prompts halogen light warning

A tailor’s workshop on the top floor of a building on Foubert’s Place in Soho was damaged by fire. London Fire Brigade Fire investigators believe the blaze may have been caused by the radiant heat from a halogen wall light placed too close to a wooden shelf and other combustible items. The blaze has prompted […]

Clive Lewis TIFireE joins Vanessa Feltz’s BBC Radio London Show

London Fire Risk Assessments Managing Director Clive Lewis TIFireE joins Vanessa Feltz in a discussion on Fire Safety. The discussion was in response to the emotional interview given by Claudia Winkleman on the dreadful incident on 31st October 2014 – Halloween night – when her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, was taken to hospital after being seriously […]

Seventeen Rescued from a Cheam care home Fire

London Fire Brigade Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued  residents and staff from a fire at a nursing home on The Avenue in Cheam, Sutton, SM2, during the early hours of the morning. Sutton police officers also assisted in the rescue, helping evacuate residents from the ground floor while firefighters rescued those residents on the fire affected first floor […]

Flat Fire in Paddington

London Fire Brigade sent Four fire engines and around 20 firefighters were called to a fire in a block of flats on Hyde Park Square in Paddington, W2. An aerial ladder platform also attended the incident. The fire affected an electrical plant room on the first floor of the eight story block as well as ducting – the building’s extraction system – between […]