Residential - Pyro Fire

Posted on 21 November 2025

The importance of Fire Door Surveys: Protecting people and property

Ensuring fire safety is more than just compliance - it’s about protecting lives. One key element often overlooked in buildings is the condition and maintenance of fire doors. Fire Door Surveys and fire door inspections play a crucial role in safeguarding occupants and meeting regulatory obligations. Did you know? 75% of UK fire doors fail inspection UK fire services attended over 150,000 fires in 2024 In this article we talk...

Posted on 13 May 2024

FREE DOWNLOADS – Check out our free resources available for download

Download fire logbooks, signs, and notices for occupants and residents of your buildings on our website today using our new Resources page. We're proud to continue supporting our clients and colleagues by providing a new way for you to download the templates you need to meet your fire safety requirements. Now, just browse our site and get the templates you've been looking for simply at the click of a button....

Posted on 17 March 2023

FREE DOWNLOAD: ‘Fire Door Information for Residents’ Notice to display in your building

The new Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 put a new requirement on all landlords for residential premises to provide 'Fire Door Information' to residents. Pyro Fire has created a new notice, designed to help landlords and property managers comply with the new Regulations and provide critical fire safety information to residents in their buildings, by displaying the notice and it can also be distributed to residents by other means. The...

Posted on 3 March 2023

Government launches new ‘Making Buildings Safer Campaign’

It is a landmark moment for Building Safety as the Government launches its new 'Making Buildings Safer Campaign' and high-rise building registration The safety of buildings has always been a matter of critical importance. Over the years, numerous incidents have highlighted the need for improved building safety standards. The Grenfell Tower tragedy, which claimed 72 lives in 2017, was a stark reminder of the risks that exist in buildings that...

Posted on 26 January 2023

New: Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 – Are you affected?

The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 came into force on 23rd January 2023 for all multi-occupied residential buildings (with two or more sets of domestic premises). The regulations are intended to improve fire safety in these buildings and to reduce the risk of fire and injury to occupants. Are you affected? The new regulations affect most residential buildings in England, introducing new legal requirements which can be enforced if not complied with....

Posted on 2 February 2021

£30 million Waking Watch Relief Fund announced

Funding targeted for residents living in high-rise structures can now access financial support to make their buildings safer. The Waking Watch Relief Fund is available across England with £22 million targeted at cities with most high-rise buildings that currently have unsafe cladding including Sheffield, Greater Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Greater London, Bristol and Newcastle. Aimed at protecting leaseholders from the high costs of Waking Watches by providing financial support for...

Posted on 2 December 2020

Fire safety inspections imminent for buildings across South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue have announced their new project to inspect all high-rise residential buildings across South Yorkshire, over 18 metres or with six or more storeys, by the end of next year. This comes as part of a Government-driven ‘Building Risk Review’. The program involves commissioning research to develop an evidence base on fire safety risk in buildings, in order to assist building owners in the prioritisation of...

Posted on 20 August 2020

The Case for Stay-Put Policies

Recently in our Instagram Stories we talked about ‘Stay-Put Policies’ for apartment blocks and asked whether you thought they were safe. The overriding response was the majority think Stay-Put is unsafe. But is that correct? Stay-put policies are designed to be safer than a normal simultaneous evacuation policy. However, more and more landlords are opting to go for simultaneous (one out, all out) in light of the events at...

Posted on 24 October 2018

Frustration over government’s response to Grenfell Tower

The construction industry has seen myriad improvements to fire safety since the Grenfell Tower fire, but there is frustration that the government has responded too slowly, a new study reveals. Since the fire in June 2017, which killed 71 people, construction industry professionals have seen substantive changes in products used for cladding, insulation and fire doors, as well as greater demands for more fire testing of products. A survey of...

Posted on 20 April 2018

Chingford fire: Resident dies in care home blaze

A resident has died in a fire which broke out at a home for people with learning disabilities. The huge blaze started in Connington Crescent, Chingford, north-east London, at 02:14 BST and was out by 05:24. Eight residents and four carers managed to get out of the three-storey building before firefighters arrived. Iain Duncan Smith, MP for Chingford, said a neighbour called 999 because residents “didn’t know what the number...

Category: Residential

The importance of Fire Door Surveys: Protecting people and property

FREE DOWNLOADS – Check out our free resources available for download

FREE DOWNLOAD: ‘Fire Door Information for Residents’ Notice to display in your building

Government launches new ‘Making Buildings Safer Campaign’

New: Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 – Are you affected?

£30 million Waking Watch Relief Fund announced

Fire safety inspections imminent for buildings across South Yorkshire

The Case for Stay-Put Policies

Frustration over government’s response to Grenfell Tower

Chingford fire: Resident dies in care home blaze

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