More than 150 entries from young people across Northamptonshire were received for the Virtual Community Safety Challenge Covid-19… and a winner has now been decided. The competition, asked secondary school pupils to take on a creative challenge to design ways to make people think about and to raise awareness of important Covid-19 messages. The challenge …
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Fire Service urges carers to seek advice if they have fire safety fears
‘Call us if you are worried about the fire safety of a vulnerable person’ is the message to carers, from Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS). This Carers’ Week (June 8-14), people who help to look after someone who may need support due to age, disability or illness, are being reminded that fire safety support …
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Home safety tips in support of Child Safety Week
With children at home during the Covid-19 pandemic and so many parents and carers busy multi-tasking, there has arguably never been a better time to remind families about safety. Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is proud to be supporting the national Child Safety Week (1-7 June), a community education campaign run by the Child …
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Northamptonshire Emergency Services Volunteers support key roles in frontline response to Covid-19
Driving ambulances and delivering vital PPE are just two of the roles which have been taken on by Northamptonshire Emergency Services Volunteers (NESV) during the Covid-19 pandemic. The NESV organisation was set up about a year ago as a joint venture led by Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) and East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS). …
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Firefighters have made more than 1,000 medication deliveries to ‘at risk’ individuals in Northamptonshire
More than 1,000 deliveries of essential medication have now been delivered by firefighters to some of the most vulnerable people across the county. Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) was asked to support the community resilience partnership response to the pandemic by aiding in pharmacy deliveries to those who are ‘shielding’ and need to stay …
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Fire Service urges residents not to burn waste, after spate of bonfire call-outs
Firefighters are urging people not to have bonfires at home, after receiving a series of call-outs to waste being burnt. Last weekend (May 16 and 17), Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service dealt with seven calls linked to bonfires or other fires in the open. These calls involved either ‘out of control’ bonfires or were simply …
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‘Take your fire safety responsibility seriously during pandemic’, landlords are warned
Landlords are being urged to remember that, during Covid-19 restrictions, their responsibilities to ensure tenants are fire safe are still as important as ever. This message from Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is being supported by one Northampton landlord who took positive action to seek professional fire safety advice and make changes to his …
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Prevention team continues its work to protect vulnerable people against fire
The home fire safety of the most vulnerable people in Northamptonshire is still a top priority for the Fire Service during the current pandemic. Each year, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) carries out thousands of Home Safety Visits to elderly people and others who may need support in keeping their homes safe from fire. …
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Mastering the art of remote working in a ‘virtual world’
Remote working has been tested to the extreme by the Fire Service’s Incident Management Team who, during the current pandemic, have been mastering the art of accessing ‘simulated realities’ from home. This technology is regularly used at the Command Development Centre in Daventry to stage realistic scenarios on screen and test the ability of Incident …
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Funding grant from Home Office to support Northants Fire work during pandemic
Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service has been awarded £660,000 funding from the Home Office to support additional costs during the pandemic. The funding will be used to help cover costs for items like personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitising products to allow firefighters to safely carry out their roles and ICT equipment to allow staff …
