If you're visiting the U.K. this summer, one of the fun things the family can do is learn the difference between those two sorts of alarms.

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Firefighters from the Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham and Darlington, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear services have sent crews to 28, 241 false alarms in two years, a Freedom of Information request revealed.

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Firefighters in the North East and Cumbria have responded to more than 28, 000 false alarms in the last two years, the BBC has learned.

BBC: False 999 calls cost fire crews millions

It alarms Davos Man, for two reasons.

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The fire, which broke out at about 2:15 a.m. at the Main Building of the art institute on Willoughby Avenue, grew to four alarms and required nearly 170 firefighters to extinguish it more than two hours later, a spokesman for the fire department said.

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