Before the rule change Pre-Determined Attendance, or PDA as the policy is known, saw fire crews mobilised to an average 28,479 false alarms each year - equating to around 57,000 unnecessary blue ...

With a large number of industrial units, Northern Livingston once regularly had high numbers of call outs, with a minimum of two fire engines responding to automatically triggered alarm signals ...

Read More West Lothian football games cancelled after group 'illegally camp' on grounds At one point there were almost 50 call outs in a three month period.