Evacuation guidelines for fire and rescue services during fire emergencies

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

As part of the Grenfell Tower phase 1 inquiry, a set of 9 National evacuation guidelines for full or partial evacuation from high rise residential buildings, are given to aid FRS operations and practice. Covers: timing of evacuation: building height and staircases; evacuation alert systems versus door-knocking; emerging evacuation methods; evacuation movement and vulnerable residents; evacuating vulnerable residents; information relating to vulnerable residents; behaviour; and information sharing amongst residents.

Document History

First published: 5 February 2024. HTML version available: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evacuation-guidelines-for-fire-and-rescue-services-frs/evacuation-guidelines-for-fire-and-rescue-services-accessible. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text.

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