Health and safety

Fire safety

Escaping from fires in flats and maisonettes

If you live in a flat or maisonette please follow this advice:

• flats and maisonettes are built to give you some protection from fire. Walls, floors and doors will hold back flames and smoke for a time. If there is a fire elsewhere in the building you're usually safer staying in your flat unless heat or smoke is affecting you
• if there is a fire in your flat, leave the building closing the door to your flat behind you
• if there is a lot of smoke, crawl along the floor where the air will be clearer
• if you live in a building with a lift, do not use it if there is a fire, go down the stairs instead
• call 999 from any phone. Give them the address including the number of your flat, and tell them which floor the fire is on.

Remember

Communal staircases, corridors and balconies should be kept clear of all combustible material, ie prams, bicycles. Domestic waste, ie rubbish should be removed to the appropriate refuse area immediately and not stored in communal areas. 

Enfield Homes makes regular inspections to ensure landing doors and other fire-safety equipment are in good repair and working properly. However, you can also help us by reporting any necessary repair to us on freephone 0800 40 80 160.