Firefighters attend thousands of false alarms

Firefighters in West Yorkshire have been called out to thousands of false alarms - including 691 reports for cooking and “burnt toast”.

- by Laura Collins

West Yorkshire Fire Service responded to reports of a blazes.

In a briefing to West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority's Safety Committee, new figures show that crews were called to 3,537 false alarms across the county in just 17 months.

While that figure was down on the previous year by 189 reports, the Yorkshire Evening Post can reveal that false alarms still make up over 40 per cent of all operational demand for that reporting period.