In a bid to lower how many calls there are to false alarms fire crews will no longer be sent to automatic fire alarms. During 2012/13, Chesire crews responded to more than 2,500 alarms but only 29 of these calls involved a fire, which meant 98.7 per cent could have been avoided.
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