Firefighter Fatalities : A Case History - Not Learning from Mistakes

This book deals with 13 fires in which there have been single or multiple deaths of firefighters; the last one being at Paul's Hair World Manchester in 2013.

However most of the book describes in detail the fire at Wealmoor (Atherstone) Ltd Atherstone on Stour Warwickshire 2007 in which four firefighters lost their lives.

Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service were wholly unprepared to fight this fire; there being evidence of systemic failures from the Chief Fire Officer down and a failure to learn from past mistakes.

After the conclusion of two court cases, the (new) Chief Fire Officer of Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service gave lectures and interviews in which he downplayed the size of the fire and the errors of the incident commanders and claimed the court cases should not have been brought.