HOUSE?FIRES?in this country are down by 34 per cent.
Chief Fire Officer Wilfred Marshall told the DAILY?NATION yesterday that there were 73 fires by the end of September this year, compared with 110 at the corresponding period in 2010.
Marshall said that of those 73 fires, half resulted in complete destruction.
“It is a significant drop and comes against a background of 2010 when there was a major drop in house fires in the first half of the year. (MK)
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