One worker died and four others were injured in a fire and explosion at a radioactive waste management treatment plant in Southern France. (more…)

UK fire services are calling on people to get their electric blankets tested as the colder months approach. (more…)

In a landmark case a hotel owner and the the fire extinguisher engineer who carried out the fire risk assessments at The Market Inn and The Dial Hotel in Mansfield, were both jailed for 8 months.
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The Hallmark Hotel Group, which owns the Belfry House Hotel in Wilmslow, Cheshire, was fined more than £127,000 after a judge ruled that guests at the luxury hotel were put at “substancial risk” because of serious breaches of fire safety under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order. (more…)

Flames spread up scaffolding in a fatal high-rise residential appartment building fire in Shaghai, China. The fire claimed the lives of 53 people and injured 90 others. The blaze began when when building materials caught fire and spread rapidly to bamboo scaffolding and flammable nylon netting which covered the building. (more…)