Fire alarm warning after landlord handed suspended prison sentence

Personally I have no sympathy for the landlord and think a term behind bars would have been a much better sentence than a suspended.
Landlords like myself work hard to comply with the rules and usually go above and beyond, then we have people like Ahmed who think it ok to disregard rules and endanger life.
Easy to see why people detest us because of clowns like him.

Reply to the comment left by Non Resident LL at 12/06/2024 – 10:12
100% agree. I spend time and money obeying the rules, which are largely correct.
I think time inside would have been the right result and sent a clear message to Landlords that just don’t care.

I may well agree with the others comments however we need a full review of the Fire Safety advice given to the public.
Tenants at Grenfell were told to stay inside their flats.
Tenants are not trained fire fighters and don’t have the equipment, knowledge or training to fight a fire. So fitting Fire extinguishers is to me bad advice.
Get out
Stay out
call the Fire Service out.
So turnlocks on exit doors, fire doors, emergency escape windows and emergency lighting and interlinked mains wired smoke alarms with battery back up.
Fire escape plan

Reply to the comment left by DAMIEN RAFFERTY at 12/06/2024 – 16:19Damien, I don’t think one rule can be applied universally. A small fire can be quickly put out by a fire extinguisher or fire blanket. Assuming tenants are not illegally smoking inside an HMO, fires are most likely to start in the kitchen. I would rather the tenant or tenants had some means of tackling the fire and did not just leave. (Kitchens will usually have two exits making escape simpler so there may be a period during which the fire can be tackled without endangering yourself.) Tenants may not know who else is in the house and if a small, containable fire can be extinguished safely, I would rather the tenants tried than allow the fire to engulf the downstairs and make escape difficult for tenants upstairs.

Agree with you Ian
However nothing will make the front page of the news like a HMO fire and the death of a group of students !
The retired Fire Chief made it Very clear at the Fire Safety talk given to dozens of Landlords at a Manchester Student Homes CPD event
Get out Stay out and call US ( fire service )out.
Now the whole ” Fire Safety Legislation “does require a full review after Grenfell
If HMO,s require mains wired interlinked smoke alarms, emergency lighting Fine.
30/60 minute fire doors are so much more expensive to install in every bedroom and kitchen/Escape route
Fire extinguishers need to be checked and serviced every year ( more costs )