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East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service
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Free Smoke Alarms and
Home safety Visits
East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service offer free smoke alarms and home fire safety visits to eligible households across East Sussex and the City of Brighton & Hove.
For further information or to arrange a visit, please contact the Community Safety Team free of charge on 0800 1777069.
You can also make a request online by completing our online Home Safety Request Form
Brighton firefighters tackle fire at tapas restaurant31 January 2012
Six appliances from East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service were sent to a Brighton restaurant after a commercial fryer caught fire.
The Aerial Ladder Platform (ALP), as well as the Incident Command Unit from Lewes, were also mobilised to deal with the fire at La Tasca yesterday morning (30th January) at 11.15am.
A fire in the restaurant's kitchen spread to an extraction unit and extraction chimney which ran up the full height of the six-storey building, causing heavy smoke logging in parts of the building. The residents of the thirty flats, as well as the restaurant staff, had self-evacuated.
Borough Commander Mark Rist said: "Firefighters used foam to extinguish the fire and main jets and hose reels were used on the extraction unit and ducting. The ALP was used as an observation platform as smoke was issuing from the extraction unit chimney when the Service arrived.
"Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus and using Thermal Image Cameras searched the building to ensure there was no fire spread, they used positive pressure ventilation fans to clear the smoke.
"The managing agent of the flats was able to supply master keys which enabled the firefighters to gain access for searching and ventilation."
No-one was injured in the fire.
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