Community Conversations

How it works

Our friendly experts will share fire safety tips to keep you safer in your home and community. We also want to hear about anything fire service related that’s on your mind and ask your opinion about ideas we have.

• Listen to seasonal fire safety advice from a fire service officer.
• Ask your questions about fire concerns.
• Tell us what you think about our ideas.

The events take place on Microsoft Teams and last an hour. We’ll start with a 10-minute presentation on seasonal fire safety advice, followed by a general discussion and question and answer session.

Take part

The events are free to attend, for anyone who lives or works in Devon and Somerset and are run online through a video conferencing platform, called Microsoft Teams. It's easy to set up an account if you don't already have one. We will add the relevant Microsoft Teams link to this page a few days before the event.

Our next event will be on 12 March 2025 at 12 noon and the topic will be automatic fire alarms. 

• Join the event on 12 March.

It doesn’t matter what your background or experience is, whether you represent an organisation or are speaking as an individual, you’re very welcome.

If there is something you’d like to find out about, you can share your questions in advance by emailing Pressofficer@dsfire.gov.uk

If you're having a problem joining, please call us on 01392 719999.

Dates and topics*

• 12 March 2025 - 12 noon to 1 pm - automatic fire alarms
• 18 June 2025 - 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm - A strategic review of our Community Risk Management Plan
• 10 September 2025 - 12 noon to 1 pm - topic to be confirmed
• 7 November - 12 noon to 1 pm - winter safety.

*Please note that dates, times, and topics may be subject to last-minute changes.

Recording

We will record the session so we can use it for note-taking and to follow up with anything we need to offer. This is so we don't have to make notes and miss the conversation.

We will share a screenshot internally and externally (including social media) and you have the option to be included or not.

Please read our privacy notice for details on how we use and share your information.

Code of conduct

We understand there may be some strong views in the virtual room, so we may suggest a separate conversation if we feel a topic needs more time.

If anyone is disruptive or displays unreasonable behaviour, we will give a warning before keeping them on mute, and if the behaviour continues on the chat we will give a final warning before they are removed from the event.