Sprinkler Save at West Midlands Primary School West Midlands F&RS reports that a fire started in a fan in an IT room at about 1600 hrs on 1 May 2014. Staff fought the fire initially and then a single sprinkler head operated to extinguish the fire before the arrival of the fire service. The fire… Read more »
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Sprinkler Save Shopping Centre – the Galleria Hatfield
At about 2000hrs on Friday 28th February 2014 , a fire started in the ‘Wonderbra Shop’ at the Galleria Outlet Shopping Complex in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The Galleria houses 80 designer outlet shops on 20,500 sq meters of retail space, in addition to a multiplex cinema and many well-known chain food oulets The fire started in… Read more »
Domestic Water Mist Save in Kent
On the 8th February 2014 a fire occurred in the kitchen of a single bedroom flat in Clements Road, Ramsgate. The premises had been fitted with a water mist system funded by KF&RS and East Kent Housing. The occupant was deemed to be at risk following two previous fires one of which resulted in injury…. Read more »
Single Sprinkler Head Controls Fire in Kitchen in Hospital Accommodation
At just before 19:45 on the evening of Monday 3rd February, a kitchen fire occurred in a pan containing cooking oil at a medium to high rise accommodation block for nurses and doctors in Grosvenor Way, Wandsworth, London. The occupier sadly suffered steam burns when, contrary to all safety advice issued in such circumstances, they… Read more »
Primary School/Academy: Northampton: 9 January 2014
Northamptonshire F&RS report a fire at a Primary Academy in the town on Thursday 9th January 2014. The fire occurred when a plastic storage crate had been inadvertently placed too close to a cooker hob. The hob was accidentally switched on setting the crate alight. The sprinkler system operated and one head extinguished the fire.
