Kitchens are the seat of more fires than any other location in purpose-built blocks of flats, according to statistics from BAFSA’s Incident Data Report No 3. BAFSA’s Incident data report No3 And this image, shared by Triangle Fire Systems, from an incident on June 25, at a residential block of flats in Birmingham shows the… Read more »
Eldery residents, at an assisted living complex in Brighton, were protected from a potentially devastating kitchen fire, thanks to the fact that the property management company had had the foresight to fit an automatic sprinkler system at the premises. Four pumping appliances from Brighton, Roedean & Hove were mobilised to the incident on the 5th… Read more »
West Midlands mum has thanked Birmingham City Council for ensuring that a ‘life-saving’ sprinkler system had been installed in her tenth-floor flat when a fire caused by an electric bike cut off her family’s only escape route out of the building. Even though 25 firefighters were mobilised and at the scene within three minutes –… Read more »
A new publication that focuses on incidents in Greater London where fire sprinklers have helped protect our communities from fire has been published BAFSA in time for this year’s Sprinkler Week ( 15-22nd May). Fire Sprinklers: Greater London Review, provides powerful evidence of the role sprinklers play, as part of an appropriate package of fire… Read more »
Pembrokeshire Specialised Housing Sprinkler Activation Mid & West Wales Fire & Rescue Service responded to fire involving a Specialised Housing scheme resulting in the activation of the premises residential sprinkler system. Specialised housing contains some of the most vulnerable members of society, many suffering with physical/cognitive, and mental health issues affecting their ability to react… Read more »
Date : 07 October 2020 A sprinkler system installed at a Hastings business has prevented serious fire damage. Crews were called to AF Blakemore and Son, in Ivy House Lane, Hastings, at 6am this week (4 October). East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service has praised the business for installing the sprinklers system, which stopped a… Read more »
On 21st July a call was received by BAFSA member regarding a fire in a flat on the 4th floor at 1-133 Garnet Road, Thornton Heath. The call was a result of the sprinkler alarm signalling the call centre. This is sheltered housing and Triangle had retrospectively installed a BS9251 sprinkler system supplied by a… Read more »
A fire broke out in the kitchen in a high-rise block owned by Southampton City Council on 3rd July. It was successfully suppressed by the sprinkler system with minimal damage. The Fire & Rescue Service attended with multiple units but had little to do but check that the fire was fully extinguished. Without the sprinkler… Read more »
On 24th June, BAFSA member RSP Sprinklers Wales received a call out to small block of flats in Cardiff where their sprinkler system successfully extinguished a fire. The call was received at 1542; their engineer arrived on site at 1626 and had the block fully protected again at 1654. The fire had started on an… Read more »
Fire crews with an aerial ladder were to a kitchen fire on the eighth floor of the city centre Lindop Court tower block in Stoke on Trent on 22nd May. A total of five crews attended from Longton, Hanley and Newcastle but the fire, believed to be started in a chip pan, had already… Read more »
