Fire Service 0800 number reaches First Century!

Over 100 additional households will be safer as a result of contacting the free help-line 0800 0214  999 -  introduced by Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service to make access to booking a free home fire risk check in the Burton on Trent area even easier.

The new number, introduced officially on 1st June, provides a direct route for everyone who feels that either they or someone they know or care for would benefit from a free home fire risk check.

The service is particularly targeted at elderly and vulnerable people living in Staffordshire and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is working on a plan that will deliver free home fire risk checks to all the homes of elderly and vulnerable people who have yet to have a check – around 60,000 households.

The Service is aware that it can only achieve this in partnership with many other agencies and with the support of carers, families, friends and neighbours of those most at need making the Service aware so that those people that could benefit from the comprehensive analysis of fire and home safety receive it as a priority.

The new campaign – MORE for Less – More free fire and safety advice in order to secure less fire deaths is part of the Service’s on going  Far MORE  from your Fire and Rescue Service, and is designed to reach the heart of the community and encourage the spirit of neighbourliness that still exists in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.

Chief Fire Officer/Chief Executive Peter Dartford is spearheading this campaign and commented:

“ The new service has got off to a very positive start and with around 100,000 of the  0800 0241 999 cards circulating in the County with carers and agencies I know that figure will go up as the cards are passed or referrals made.

I know the communities of Staffordshire can and will get behind this call – the spirit of neighbourliness is not dead here and since my move to Staffordshire ten years ago I have really noticed the difference.

Hitting our First Century is great, but we want to reach hundreds more households through this number by Christmas. Think about your neighbour, granny, granddad, mum, dad, uncle or aunt – or someone you care for – would they benefit from a free home fire risk check and get them well and truly safer by Christmas!”

Members of the public are also asked to get in touch if they are a carer or have friends, neighbours or relatives that would benefit from a small batch of cards with the 0800 0241 999 number on them.  Most larger fire stations and Fire Service HQ also have cards, and they are being circulated to health and advice agencies, the police and those that supply information – such as libraries and branches of the charities that look after the elderly.

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