Hampshire proposing to send only an officer to AFA calls

[Steven N]

I still have to agree with Midland. Where does that leave the FRS with poorly managed sites that regularly call the FRS out to alarms? In this time of greater financial restraint are you happy with the FRS attending umpteen UWFS at the same old sites over and over again?

[AnthonyB]

I've just been thinking - If an unscrupulous place is fed up of being charged for AFA calls, one would have though that they are more likely to either terminate the ARC contract or cut the Redcare cable instead of pull the main panel fuse.

Plus surely the dodgy places that would switch off fire alarms are not the ones that would be paying for an ARC anyway.

Perhaps the charging will cause several places to look at if they really NEED to rely on ARC in the first place and if so to buckle their ideas up regarding maintenance, staff training and management levels.