The Home Office recently released national statistics that stated that 215,814 incidents attended by the fire
service were false alarms.
Not exact matches
For instance, Doubting - Thomases raised
false alarm that Nigerian Customs
Service (NCS) and Nigerian Immigration
Service (NIS) have
been ordered to withdraw their personnel from some borders in the North - West without any cogent reason.
So, if you
're one of those persistent
false alarm offenders and changes in fire
service attendance to AFA's isn't enough to make you re-assess your fire safety management; perhaps financial implications will.
It
is estimated that
false alarms cost the UK in excess of # 1 billion a year (Source: FIA), but apart from the waste of resources
false alarms detract the attention of fire
services away from real fire incidents.
According to the NPCC, a
false alarm would
be one that has not resulted from: a criminal attack, or attempts at such, on the protected premises; actions by the emergency
services in the execution of their duty; or a call emanating from a hold up
alarm with good intent.
Overjoyed at having got rid of it after 27 months of problems and very poor
service from Nissan My car suffered from most of the common and well documented problems Parking senors giving
false alarms or not working because of water ingress (nine montjs to fix by drilling holes in them) Chassis control false warning causing the car to stop False brake failure warning Battery failed at 24 months Rear shock absorber leaks at 26 months I believe the car was off the road for 21 days out of the 27 months I owned
false alarms or not working because of water ingress (nine montjs to fix by drilling holes in them) Chassis control
false warning causing the car to stop False brake failure warning Battery failed at 24 months Rear shock absorber leaks at 26 months I believe the car was off the road for 21 days out of the 27 months I owned
false warning causing the car to stop
False brake failure warning Battery failed at 24 months Rear shock absorber leaks at 26 months I believe the car was off the road for 21 days out of the 27 months I owned
False brake failure warning Battery failed at 24 months Rear shock absorber leaks at 26 months I believe the car
was off the road for 21 days out of the 27 months I owned it B
Overwhelmingly, the two biggest issues with SimpliSafe seem to
be problems with
false alarms and the fact that customer
service isn't available 24/7.
We place the highest value upon guest safety and have a fervent hope that should we ever need the attention of the Fire & Rescue
Service for a real fire incident, that the equipment and manpower will
be available to attend, not involved with a
false alarm callout elsewhere.