Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service explained: “It was a serious problem for both organisations. Every time their alarm system activated, our risk-based response would be to send two re appliances. Invariably on arrival we would nd it was a false alarm – a single smoke detector being activated, usually by a cooking activity. More often than not it was burnt toast! “As well as placing a burden on our resources, it was disruptive for sta and patients and it destroyed the credibility of their re alarm system.” Working with the local NHS Trust and Ray Clark, Stoke Mandeville Hospital’s re safety adviser, the hospital’s re alarm engineers Pyrotec Systems developed a re safety system that enables the hospital’s specially trained re wardens to investigate the cause of an alarm signal, o

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