Firefighters in part of Sussex have revealed that — on a single night this week — more than two-thirds of all call-outs were to false alarms.
That's according to staff with East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, after they totalled-up their work on Wednesday night (August 19).
Officials are pleading with premises managers to take more care over how automatic alarms are managed.
They've issued a set of guidelines to help reduce false alarms. They include:
- Avoid setting-off hard-wired alarms in areas where cooking frequently happens;
- Allow smoking only in designated areas, where alarms aren't in use;
- Don't use aerosol sprays near smoke detectors;
- During dusty work, fit a cover to a smoke alarm — but take it off straight after the work is finished.
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