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Some advice from West Midlands Fire Service regarding bonfires. We recommend always attending organised bonfires but, if you’re thinking of having a bonfire in your garden, please follow the safety advice below to make it as safe as possible: always site bonfires well away from houses, garages, sheds, fences, trees and anything that could catch firebuild your bonfire carefully to ensure it won’t collapse to one side when litnever use flammable liquids such as paraffin or petrol to light the firekeep buckets of water or a hosepipe nearby in case of emergency – but call 999 immediately if the fire gets out of handkeep people, especially children, away from the fire. If children are present, supervise them at all timesdon’t burn foam-filled furniture, aerosols, bottles or paintsnever leave a bonfire unattendedalways pour water over embers to ensure they’re fully extinguished before leaving them. | 
