False alarm callouts spark warning from fire service

Fire chiefs have called for businesses, landlords, organisations and members of the public to do more to reduce the number of false alarms they are called to.

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Avon Fire and Rescue Service warned that every time fire crews rush to a callout they do not need to attend, there is a risk there could be a real emergency somewhere else that they don’t get to in time.

The call came as new figures revealed that in some parts of Bristol more than half the fire brigade callouts are actually false alarms, including faulty fire alarms, calls about controlled burning, and instances where cooking or burning toast sets off a building's fire alarm that is linked to an automatic response from the fire service.