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Article: Pensioner fury at housing firm North Lincolnshire Homes has apologised to a furious Ashby pensioner after the company took more than 24 hours to fix his smoke alarm.
- Article from:
- Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- August 27, 2007
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North Lincolnshire Homes has apologised to a furious Ashby
pensioner after the company took more than 24 hours to fix his smoke
alarm.
Frederick Gibson (71), of Cornwall Road, Ashby, called up the new
housing corporation on Wednesday after his smoke alarm went off at
4.30pm and he was unable to stop it.
But despite being told someone would be with him soon, the
electrical alarm was still going off three hours later.
"My wife and I burnt some food so the alarm went off, but we
opened all the windows and the doors and it just wouldn't stop," the
pensioner said.
"I pulled the emergency cord and told North Lincolnshire Homes I
couldn't switch off the alarm.
"But no one came to help, so the alarm ...