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Battalion Chief, Jim Hopkins issued a release on Saturday regarding Friday’s house fire on Cornell Avenue, Berkeley Heights. The fire department was notified about the reported house fire at 2.31pm, and on arrival Deputy Chief Padovano discovered that the fire had started in the kitchen and was quickly growing and was soon to spread to other Read more...

With the adoption of an apparently much safer standard for sockets and pugs, South Africans could soon find themselves having to cope with a new type of electrical plug. Gianfranco Campetti, SABS (South African Bureau of Standards) Committee chairman says, “In 2013, SANS 164-2 was introduced as the ‘preferred standard’ for electrical plugs Read more...

According to Dutch researchers our ballooning waistlines could be caused from having the central heating switched on. They believe that the higher temperatures in homes, offices and hospitals means that we are provided with more comfort, meaning that our bodies no longer need to burn any extra calories in order to help stay warm. A Maastricht Read more...

Mr. John Jinapor, the Deputy Minister of Energy, has recently announced the government’s plans to embark on a massive street lighting project across the country. He said the illumination system of all major towns and cities will be improved significantly so that security would be strengthened and night life activities will be promoted. This Read more...

Shelburne’s largest park ‘Greenwood’ is currently undergoing renovations which will see the park receive new and convenient wireless controls for the lighting system, while the Kinette Club of Shelburne is working on erecting a pavilion in the park. The council approved to help the Kinette Club investigate the first necessary steps of Read more...

Fire-fighters with the Tupelo Fire Department spent time  on Wednesday attending a course on electrical hazards. It was decided that fire-fighters should attend this course as all to often they enter structures on fire, which have electrical hazards due to being interconnected to electrical systems. Bill Wardlaw, batallion chief Tupelo Fire Read more...

British Gas have stated that more than 50,000 Britons have started using its apps in order to control their heating, in the same week as Google have spent £2.5 billion on ‘smart’ home appliance maker Nest. Since the launch of the ‘smart’ thermostat, Hive Active Heating, last September – more than 10,000have it installed in their home Read more...

A suspect, who was believed to have been in a burglary, was captured on film by the BBC’s Springwatch team making his apparent getaway. The Springwatch team had set up an infra red night vision camera, to film a family of urban foxes,. The camera footage has now become a vital piece of evidence for the Metropolitan Police, for the Read more...

Posen has been selected to put the finishing touches on a lighting project for Posen Consolidated Schools, with the school agreeing to purchase around $4,000 worth of LED light bulbs. The installation of these bulbs will finally complete the replacement of the building’s interior lighting, with more energy efficient lights. John Palmer, the Read more...

The residents of Llandough have said the new LED street lights recently installed on their road means it’s ‘like going back to Dickensian times’. A petition has been created, with more than 60 signatures, urging the Vale Council to restore the old lights which enable people to get around safely. Several members of the Neighbourhood Watch Read more...