Merseyside FRS risk based approach to attending 'unconfirmed' AFA's

[kurnal]

I agree Piglet but theres some well documented examples of brigades going further than this. Like the 20 odd storey Birmingham hotel - they played us the control room tapes on an FIA training day. The control room replied to the 999 call from the receptionist and said they would only attend if there was a confirmed fire. 10 minutes later and having run up 20 floors the breathless receptionist  called back to say yes there was a fire.

[Clevelandfire 3]

So is that the fire brigades fault? Or the hotel operators fault?

[Tom W]

There is also the iceland fire. There will always be exceptions to the rule.

I would say that a receptionist shouldn't have had to run all that way, surely a quick call to the nearest fire marshall could of got the answer quicker

[colin todd]

Fitter, you seem to imply that the good people of Stathclyde F&RS call filtered before Rosepark.  No Scottish F&RS failed to attend a call from someone reporting actuation of a fire alarm system, and I hope and believe they never will.

[fitter]

Colin, I was not inferring that, far from it. I was just making the point that Strathclyde have made certain comments and decisions based on current situations and of course the Rosepark incident. I attended the presentation day put on by Strathclyde and I found the Brigade to be very open and honest. In fact, I was very very impressed with them. Their current position on call filtering and attendance is to be commended in my view.
Just my view for what it is worth.