Fire Safety Advice
for People with Disabilities
 The following information leaflet
has been produced by Communities and Local Government (click
to download pdf 507Kb)
If you have any difficulties hearing,
seeing or moving about, you need to take extra care
to deal with the risk of fire. The good news is that
there are particular solutions to the problems you may
face.
If you take a few simple steps,
learn a few good habits and avoid some bad ones, you
can avoid almost all fires in the home
If a fire does start,
the right equipment will save your life...
Smoke
Alarms - are the single
piece of equipment most likely to save you from a fire.
They give you time to get out alive
• Install and maintain smoke alarms. Contact us on 0800 180 41 40 to arrange your FREE Home Safety Visit. Our staff will install FREE smoke alarms if required.
If you have difficulties hearing, seeing or moving
around, you may need to take special steps to make sure
the alarms work for you. The leaflet above will give you details of the types of alarms available for your situation.
Some Useful Addresses and Links:-
Disabled Living Foundation
380 - 384 Harrow Road
London
W9 2HU
Tel: 020 7289 6111
www.dlf.org.uk
National Federation of
the Blind of the UK
Unity House
Smyth Street
Westgate
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 1ER
Tel: 01924 291313
www.nfbuk.org.uk
Royal Association for Disability
and Rehabilitation
25 Mortimer Street
London
W1N 8AB
Tel: 020 7250 3222
www.radar.org.uk
Royal National Institute
for the Blind
224 Great Portland Street
London
W1N 6AA
Tel: 020 7388 1266
www.rnib.org.uk
RNID (Royal National Institute
for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People)
Information Line
19-23 Featherstone Street
London
EC1Y 8SL
Tel: Freephone - voice 0808 808 0123
Textphone: Freephone - textphone 0808 808 9000
Fax: 020 7296 8199
informationline@rnid.org.uk
www.rnid.org.uk
to view the BSL version of the FireKills Fire Safety leaflets, click on the link below:-
http://video.eyegaze.tv/fire/spark.html
Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Tel: 0121 248 2000
www.rospa.co.uk
The Residential Sprinkler Association
Tel: 0118 971 2322
www.firesprinklers.org.uk
Help the Aged
Tel: 020 7278 1114
www.helptheaged.org.uk
Shelter
Tel: 0808 800 4444 (free 24 hr helpline)
www.shelter.org.uk
Local names and addresses of organisations
representing disabled and sensory impaired people can
be found in Yellow Pages.
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