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Safety advice to residents

The following advice has been issued by the emergency services and CityWest Homes during this time.

• Avoid unnecessary travel where possible. Stay inside your property and keep family members, particularly children and young adults at home.
   
• If you must travel, keep expensive personal items, such as jewellery, cameras or smart phones out of sight when outside your home.
   
• Stay in contact with elderly or vulnerable family members and neighbours.
   
• Remove any valuable items from view and/ or adjacent to windows (i.e. TV’s, computer equipment etc)
   
• Keep your vehicle locked and any items of value out of sight, we would also recommend that you remove any accelerants from your car (i.e. petrol cans) which could be utilised to set the vehicle on fire.
   
• Remove all bulk waste items and refuse from around your property and secure bins in place (i.e. chain then or move them into a fenced garden area or bin store room)
   
• Remove any items, such as loose stones, paving slaps, bricks or any other items which could be used as missiles from outside your property and place them in a secure location.
   
• Recent events suggest that those residential units above shops are being specifically targeted by arsonists, therefore it is extremely important that residents who live above shop units are particularly vigilant during this time and that you ensure that your smoke alarms are working.
   
• Ensure the escape route from your property is clear of any obstructions, in case you are required to leave quickly.
   
• Should a fire start in a shop unit below your property, we advise residents to leave the property as quickly as possible, as it is unlikely that London Fire Brigade will be able to attend the property within their normal attendance time.
   
• If you have to leave your property due to a fire below or adjacent to your property please contact Westminster City Council's emergency link office on 020 7286 7412 who will advise you of what action to take.
   
• Residents who are not directly effected by a fire (i.e. a fire within your block) should follow the normal fire safety plan for their block and remain in their properties.
   
• Do not attempt to intervene or try to prevent damage to property, walk away or in the opposite direction and inform the emergency services either on the Metropolitan Police's non-emergency number 101 or emergency number 999.