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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Community Fire Safety => Topic started by: Owain on March 18, 2018, 03:30:39 PM
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All homes in Scotland are set to have a minimum number of smoke alarms after a 30-year-old law is amended. Changes to the Housing (Scotland) Act are being made in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze in which 71 died.
There will be a 10-year age limit for alarms and all alarms will have to be ceiling-mounted, and should be interlinked.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43443725
The move appears to be popular with electricians :)
https://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/threads/smoke-alarm-rules-to-apply-to-all-homes-in-scotland.139314/
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Point of order: 72 died as a result of the Grenfell fire
A 74 year old women died in February after 7 months in hospital with severe burns
Sadly this news was largely lost in the media hysteria in relation the the snow storms
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5446237/Woman-escaped-19th-floor-Grenfell-Tower-dies.html