Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service Newsdesk

Boslowick Road, Falmouth at 20/04/2017 10:07

Appliances from Falmouth, Tolvaddon and Truro Community Fire Stations along with a Wholetime Officer attended to a property with a fire reported in the garage. Crews used breathing apparatus, hose reel jets, covering jets and safety jets. The Police are also in attendance at this incident due to the cause being arson suspected. The Fire Investigation Team are also in attendance.

Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service are one of a handful of services within the UK to employ the services of their own fire investigation dog team.

The dogs are used as a tool to search cold, post-fire scenes for the presence of flammable and ignitable liquids that could have been used to start or promote fires deliberately.

Arson does not only threaten lives and damage property it has a detrimental effect on communities and the lives of people within them.

Anyone with information on fires being deliberately started are advised to anonymously call Crimestoppers free on 0800 555 111 or contact Devon and Cornwall Police on 101 with information.

Help protect yourself, friends, family and others from the threat of arson by viewing our information on our website which is available from the link below:

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