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AXA Commercial – itself a division of AXA Insurance UK plc – is advising London businesses to review their fire risk assessments and staff training in the wake of the London Fire Brigade (LFB) announcing that it would no longer respond to daytime activations of automatic fire alarms in most non-residential buildings from October. In the year to March 2024, the LFB attended 52,000 false calls generated by automatic fire alarms. From October – and as reported by Fire Safety Matters – automatic calls will not be answered between the hours of 7.00 am and 8.30 pm in a bid to reduce the burden on Fire and Rescue Service resources. Read more on the Fire Safety Matters website https://lnkd.in/d52-p7hU