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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bosses-charged-over-firemen-deaths.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The fire burning at a warehouse on an industrial estate in Atherstone on Stour, Warwickshire" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-bosses-charged-over-firemen-deaths.jpg" alt="The fire burning at a warehouse on an industrial estate in Atherstone on Stour, Warwickshire"/></a></p>
<p>Three fire service managers are to be charged with manslaughter over the deaths of four firefighters in a warehouse blaze.</p>
<p>Paul Simmons, Adrian Ashley and Timothy Woodward will face charges of manslaughter by gross negligence over the deaths of Ian Reid, John Averis, Ashley Stephens and Darren Yates-Badley in the blaze in a warehouse in Atherstone-on-Stour in 2007, the Crown Prosecution Service said.</p>
<p>All three are managers for Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service.</p>
<p>Warwickshire County Council faces a charge of failing to ensure the health and safety at work of its employees, under Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.</p>
<p>The defendants will appear at Leamington Spa Magistrates&#8217; Court on April 1.</p>
<p>Michael Gregory, reviewing lawyer in the CPS Special Crime Division, said: &#8220;Following a thorough investigation by Warwickshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive, I have reviewed the evidence in this case very carefully and I have decided that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to charge Paul Simmons, Adrian Ashley and Timothy Woodward with gross negligence manslaughter.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mr Simmons and Mr Ashley were Watch Managers and Mr Woodward was a Station Manager at the time of the fire, but they all acted as incident commanders before, during and after their colleagues were sent into the burning building.</p>
<p>&#8220;In that role, they were responsible for making the operational decisions while their colleagues tried to put out the fire.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have also decided that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction against Warwickshire County Council for failing to protect the health and safety of its employees and that it is in the public interest to prosecute.&#8221;</p>
<p>A spokesman for Warwickshire Police said: &#8220;We welcome today&#8217;s announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service. The judicial process has now begun and we must await the outcome. Our thoughts are with the families of the four firefighters who died.&#8221;</p>
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