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An elderly man had a lucky escape from a fire caused by a cigarette in his flat thanks to a sprinkler system. Sutton firefighters were called to a fire at the residential care home in Mickleham Gardens in Cheam on 23 November. Luckily the man had already escaped the flat and his sprinkler system had put out most of… Read more »

BAFSA has received several enquiries in recent weeks regarding the efficacy of BS 9251 sprinkler systems against fires involving deep fat frying.  Questioners appear to be confused by publicity urging householders ‘not to throw cups of water on to chip pan fires’. It’s long been known that sprinklers are highly effective against cooking oil and… Read more »

On Friday 13th March, a manufacturing company in Tyne and Wear experienced a fire in a wall mounted process heater at their 5000 m² single storey factory. The Incident Commander confirmed that one sprinkler activated and successfully suppressed and extinguished the fire.  In addition the sprinkler cooled 2 barrels of solvent which had the potential… Read more »

Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service responded to a report of fire at a food processing plant in Thetford at 13:00 hours on Saturday 14th February 2015. The fire was reported to be in a large roof void at the plant and when crews arrived they found a difficult situation with access and smoke logging a… Read more »

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service report that at just before 01:20 on Sunday 15th February a fire occurred in a first floor bedroom at a residential care home for the elderly at Balhousie, Dundee. Three appliances were mobilised to the incident at this 3 storey building, constructed of block work with internal timber partitions and… Read more »

A report published by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch makes it clear that press reports regarding the actuation of the tunnel’s AFSS were inaccurate. The only firefighting activity was by the French fire team and the report suggests that it took more than three hours to bring the fire under control. The fire completely consumed… Read more »

Sprinkler systems installed at Jiffy Packaging meant that damage from a blaze in machinery was kept to a minimum. Two fire engines, one from Winsford and one from Northwich, were called to Winsford Industrial Estate at 10:01 on 19 February, after a fire broke out in a piece of machinery. The company’s sprinkler system had… Read more »

BAFSA works with other Sprinkler Coordination Group Members including the National Fire Sprinkler Network, CFOA, the insurers and the sprinkler industry to ensure that fires involving sprinkler acivations are recorded and analysed. Steve Mills has collated the information received during 2014 and put it into the attached pdf/ spreadsheet format. We hope this will be… Read more »

Humberside FRS reports that on Monday 16th February 2015 a fire occurred in a compressor room at a North Lincolnshire food processing factory. The fire started in a compressor motor in the 15m x 10m room at the plant. The sprinklers in the room activated to extinguish the fire which was recorded as being ‘out… Read more »

Southampton City Council will make a £1m investement in putting automatic fire sprinkler systems in three tower blocks.The move will see the system installed in each individual flat, and some communal areas such as bin stores at Albion Towers, Sturminster House and Shirley Towers. The proposals were approved by the authority’s cabinet earlier. It comes… Read more »