I had a chat with a member of a FRS a long way away from my domicile. This FRS send a fast respose to incidents within there area to provide a risk assesment which includes the road conditions and an assesment of the incident to be tackled. The aim is to get the right balance of fire crew's on scene in the most expediant time. This FRS belive that, if they have not made an effective intervention on a house within 20 minutes they will lose the structure, be it a single house or pair of semi's. This is a modern house with all of the additional insulation required by varous sections of the Building Regulations. This seems to ring true as each day I pass a pair of modern semi's out in the country that are severly damaged by fire. The fire in one took out both.
