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Combating arson leaflets

A collection of leaflets available to help combat arson.

Arson Is a crime

Details of the Crimestoppers service, which anyone can call, anonymously, with information about someone deliberately starting fires.




Juvenile Fire Setting: How to Reduce the Risk leaflet

Juvenile Fire Setting: How to Reduce the Risk

The term fire setting is well used by those in the fire industry but perhaps not so well know to most of us.

Widely used in the United States and adopted generally as the accepted term meaning: "people who start deliberate fires". This leaflets covers the types of fire setters, reducing the risk and where to go for help.




Arson Alert for Small Businesses leaflet

Arson Alert for Small Businesses

The biggest fire risk in shops and stores is from fires started deliberately.

Arson is an ever-present threat but one which you as a shop owner or store manager can do much to control.

This leaflet includes 23 ways to stop your business becoming an arson statistic.

Also find out more on the business safety pages of this website.




Arson Prevention: Farms & the Countryside leaflet

Arson Prevention: Farms & the Countryside

Each year in the UK on average around 1,600 farm buildings and 85,000 acres of grassland are destroyed by fire.

Around 40% of these fires are started deliberately, many as an act of mindless vandalism. 




How to Combat Arson in Schools Leaflet

How to Combat Arson in Schools

This guide is addressed primarily at school governors, head teachers, school premises managers, LEAs and local authority risk managers.

It aims to alert those responsible for school premises to the continuing dangers of arson attacks on schools, and suggests means by which such a potential can be reduced. This leaflet covers prevention, detection and protection. 




Car Fires: The Growing Problem and how to Help Extinguish it leaflet

Car Fires: The Growing Problem and how to Help Extinguish it

 Every year in the UK around 102,000 road vehicles (or about 280 every single day) go up in flames and over 58 people die as a result.

This leaflet includes a check list of precautions to take to protect your car. 




Arson: The Major Fire Threat to Places of Worship leaflet

Arson: The Major Fire Threat to Places of Worship

Most of the fires in churches are started deliberately.

This leaflets covers risk assessment, security and good housekeeping.




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