Image Credit ESFR Fire Rescue Service; East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service (ESFRS) Date of Incident; August 2024 Time of call: 03:51 Premises; Assisted Living Complex Location; Brighton Type of fire; Electrical fire Automatic Fire Sprinkler System; Wet Pipe (Sprinkler) Station Manager Louisa Curtis, of...
Introduction Our gratitude to The London Fire Brigade (LFB) for their ongoing support, playing a key leadership role in promoting the benefits of fire sprinklers by the reporting of sprinkler activations, rising to the call from the National Fire Chiefs Council who actively encourage fire...
Credit image Nationwide Fire Sprinklers Introduction Our thanks to both Nottinghamshire Fire Rescue Service (NFRS) and Nationwide Fire Sprinklers for reporting a fire involving an incense candle within a student accommodation tall building which was successfully contained within a cluster flat by the activation of...
Introduction Our gratitude to The London Fire Brigade (LFB) for their ongoing support, playing a key leadership role in promoting the benefits of fire sprinklers by the reporting of sprinkler activations, rising to the call from the National Fire Chiefs Council who actively encourage fire...
Introduction This the second successful reported student accommodation sprinkler activation reported by Nottingham Fire and Rescues Service (NFRS) within a 3-month period, on both occasions the fire was either contained/controlled or extinguished by the activation of 1 sprinkler head with no injuries reported. Demonstrating the...
Introduction Our gratitude to The London Fire Brigade (LFB) for their ongoing support, playing a key leadership role in promoting the benefits of fire sprinklers by the reporting of sprinkler activations, rising to the call from the National Fire Chiefs Council who actively encourage fire...
Credit image Discovery Fire Sprinklers Ltd Introduction Many thanks to Discovery Fire Sprinklers Ltd for reporting this positive news story demonstrating the benefits of installing sprinklers,as part of a package of fire safety measures protecting our communities from fire. Background The foresight of Dundee City...
Image credit Uk Sprinklers Ltd The benefits of installing a life safety residential sprinkler system reducing the impact of fire as part of an appropriate package of fire safety measures on people, property and the environment was clearly identified following an apartment kitchen fire...
Credit image SYFRS Roger Brason, South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue (SYFR) sprinkler advocate, “We’ve championed the use of sprinklers, particularly in high-rise buildings, for quite some time, so we’re delighted that all of the blocks in Doncaster now have them.” “These devices not only help protect...
Obi Selassie, GFRS Station Manager “If it was not for the activation of the sprinkler system extinguishing the fire before the arrival of the fire service, we could be discussing a different outcome for this incident, The benefits of sprinklers should not be underestimated they...
Summary This incident clearly identifies why the English government should be looking to install sprinklers into all new specialised and supported housing, if it was not for the decision taken by the National Assembly for Wales passing new regulations in October 2013 that require a...
Source believed to be a Brentwood local newspaper cutting for August 28 1936 My thanks to Maurice Fisher for reporting a manufacturing factory fire which occurred in the film winding department at Ilford Ltd’s Selo factory, Woodman Road, Brentwood, which activated the premises automatic sprinkler...
