With children at home during the Covid-19 pandemic and so many parents and carers busy multi-tasking, there has arguably never been a better time to remind families about safety. Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is proud to be supporting the national Child Safety Week (1-7 June), a community education campaign run by the Child …
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Northamptonshire Emergency Services Volunteers support key roles in frontline response to Covid-19
Driving ambulances and delivering vital PPE are just two of the roles which have been taken on by Northamptonshire Emergency Services Volunteers (NESV) during the Covid-19 pandemic. The NESV organisation was set up about a year ago as a joint venture led by Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) and East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS). …
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Firefighters have made more than 1,000 medication deliveries to ‘at risk’ individuals in Northamptonshire
More than 1,000 deliveries of essential medication have now been delivered by firefighters to some of the most vulnerable people across the county. Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) was asked to support the community resilience partnership response to the pandemic by aiding in pharmacy deliveries to those who are ‘shielding’ and need to stay …
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Fire Service urges residents not to burn waste, after spate of bonfire call-outs
Firefighters are urging people not to have bonfires at home, after receiving a series of call-outs to waste being burnt. Last weekend (May 16 and 17), Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service dealt with seven calls linked to bonfires or other fires in the open. These calls involved either ‘out of control’ bonfires or were simply …
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‘Take your fire safety responsibility seriously during pandemic’, landlords are warned
Landlords are being urged to remember that, during Covid-19 restrictions, their responsibilities to ensure tenants are fire safe are still as important as ever. This message from Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is being supported by one Northampton landlord who took positive action to seek professional fire safety advice and make changes to his …
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Prevention team continues its work to protect vulnerable people against fire
The home fire safety of the most vulnerable people in Northamptonshire is still a top priority for the Fire Service during the current pandemic. Each year, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) carries out thousands of Home Safety Visits to elderly people and others who may need support in keeping their homes safe from fire. …
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Mastering the art of remote working in a ‘virtual world’
Remote working has been tested to the extreme by the Fire Service’s Incident Management Team who, during the current pandemic, have been mastering the art of accessing ‘simulated realities’ from home. This technology is regularly used at the Command Development Centre in Daventry to stage realistic scenarios on screen and test the ability of Incident …
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Funding grant from Home Office to support Northants Fire work during pandemic
Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service has been awarded £660,000 funding from the Home Office to support additional costs during the pandemic. The funding will be used to help cover costs for items like personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitising products to allow firefighters to safely carry out their roles and ICT equipment to allow staff …
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County partnership continues to work hard to improve road safety after rise in KSI figures
The number of killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties on Northamptonshire roads in 2019 was the highest it had been in eight years. Overall KSI figures increased by 59 from 288 casualties in 2018 to 347 last year, while the number of people killed on the county’s roads rose from 31 to 42 in the …
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Can you draw a firefighter?
Calling young artists (whether off school or still going to school) who are looking for some extra activities to get involved with! Take a look at our attached photo which features two of our firefighters (far right and far left) wearing our distinctive gold kit. Do you think you could draw a firefighter and send …
Fire Risk Assessment (worked example for House in Multiple Occupation (HMO)) (PDF 389KB)
