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 »
A fire which was believed to have been started by smoking materials activated a sprinkler system in a flat at Laurence Way, Slough at abot 0900 hrs on New Years Day. Neighbours called the f&rs when the alarm activated. A spokesman for Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service said two fire fighters wearing breathing apparatus… Read more »
At about 2200 hrs on Saturday 6th December, at the end of the working day, a tumble dryer was unloaded at the leisure centre situated in the lower floors of the hotel. CCTV footage showed that at about 0300 on Sunday 7th, a fire started in a laundry basket due to spontaneous combustion of the… Read more »
Hotel guests were evacuated from the London Hilton hotel in Mayfair last night after a fire broke out in a bedroom. Around 100 guests were evacuated from the upmarket hotel as a precaution at around 7.40pm last night. Sprinklers in the hotel, located in Park Lane, helped extinguish the fire and the London Fire Brigade… Read more »
