The Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service issued fewer fire safety notices about buildings last year, new figures show – despite a national increase.
It comes as the Fire Brigades Union said decades of deregulation and complacency have created a "crisis in building safety".
Figures from the Home Office show 768 fire safety inspections or audits were carried out by the Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service in the year to March.
Of these, 20 resulted in a formal notification, which is issued in the most serious of cases or where fire safety non-compliance was raised previously but was not resolved.
It was down from 30 notices the year before.
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Across England, 2,823 formal notices were issued last year, the highest since 2012-13.
The figures also show there were 43 prosecutions across the UK in serious cases on non-compliance, a significant jump from 24 the year before.
There were no prosecutions in Cumbria last year.
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