Long the bane of fire and rescue services false alarms are now a costly headache for London businesses since the LFB started imposing fines for excessive unnecessary callouts.
False alarms also cost the taxpayer around £1bn every year. Although numbers of false alarms have fallen over the last 15 years, it’s still a huge problem.
The average response time to non-domestic building fires in England in 2014-15 was eight minutes 28 seconds, an increase of 21 seconds from the previous year, according a recent government report. False alarms certainly don’t help this.
Put together by Hochiki Europe the following infographic shares the shocking stats about false fire alarms, the primary causes and damaging impacts as well as the solutions to the false alarm problem.
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