THE Make a Plan campaign is today being brought to a close after helping an unprecedented number of Islanders to protect themselves against house fires.

A PENSIONER was saved by his smoke alarm after a chip pan fire filled his flat with toxic smoke.

ISLANDERS looked on in bemusement today as ‘demonstrators’ scaled the Jersey Eye and unveiled a giant banner.

A FIRE officer has warned Islanders about the dangers of storing gas canisters after the second garden blaze in just two weeks.

CHILDREN look on in shock as they are shown the devastating effects of throwing water on a chip pan fire.

JERSEY’S chief fire officer has volunteered to carry out home safety checks after firefighters were inundated with requests following the launch of the JEP’s Make a Plan campaign.

HOTEL staff were praised for their quick evacuation of guests after a fire broke out at a hotel in St Brelade early yesterday morning.

HALF of the Islanders visited by firefighters after the JEP launched the Make a Plan campaign lacked any satisfactory form of fire detection, it has been revealed.

WITHIN five minutes of the home fire safety visit starting, 11-year-old Daniel Fallon was scurrying to the dustbin to dispose of a multiple box-shaped adaptor.

THE JEP’s Make a Plan campaign has been so successful that the Fire and Rescue Service has had to draft in retired firefighters to cope with the soaring demand for home safety visits.