Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service are committed to public safety and have a number of events and campaigns to target and engage with our community.

Our latest campaign ‘Young at Heart, Safe at Home’, has been created to target the over 60’s, a group of people that have been identified as being at risk of fire.   

This campaign activity includes:

• Firefighters visiting flu clinics, libraries and areas where older people are more likely to frequent
• Safety adverts on pharmacy prescription bags
• Promotional screens in Doctor’s surgeries
• The employment of an Older Persons Advocate in South Staffordshire

We are actively involved in Partnership Working and continue to work with Social Care and Health to provide training packages in identifying potential fire risks within the home, aiming to promote, maintain and sustain independent living.

How you can help

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service provide free Home Fire Risk Checks, free smoke alarms and safety advice.  They will arrange to visit you at a mutually convenient time.  Just call our freephone number 0800 0241 999 to book yourself a visit.  Speak to your friends, relatives and neighbours who live in Staffordshire to see if they would like a free Home Fire Risk Check too, you never know you could just save a life.

Join our Facebook group, Stop Elderly People Dying in Fires and help to raise awareness of our campaign.

Let us know of any groups where elderly people congregate by clicking here, we may be able to arrange a free visit and talk by our firefighters.