Sprinkler Stops
Domestic Premises, 27 December 2008
A domestic system successfully operated on 27 December 2008. A single sprinkler head in a bathroom operated to extinguish a fire in a towel which was caused by the ignition of paper by a recessed ceiling light.
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Warehouse, North West January 2009
An employee was using a hot air gun to shrink wrap a palette of stationary. For some reason items of stationary were ignited and the resultant fire spread to three more palettes. The heat produced was sufficient to actuate a single roof level sprinkler head some 35m above the scene of the fire which fully extinguished the fire. The fire and rescue service were called automatically via the waterflow alarm and found the fire out.
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Residential Block, Bin Store, Corby 11 March 2008
LA housing. Two heads operated to control fire (believed to be deliberate). Bins severely damaged but smoke damage only to building. Residents self-evacuated. System reinstated in 75 minutes.
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Starch Products Factory, Corby, 25 June 2008
Manufacturer of starch products.A single head operated. Fire damage restricted to a single gluten drying machine and drive belts. 10% smoke damage to room of origin. System reinstated within 12 hours.
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Former Mill, Stacksteads, Lancashire 13 March 2009
A sprinkler system could have saved a company around £2 million after a blaze was prevented from tearing through Atherton Holme Mill, Stacksteads, fire chiefs have claimed. Chief fire officer for Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, Peter Holland, said the situation could have been much worse if the building had not been fitted with a sprinkler system.
Bacup shoes which occupies the building said that there was no real damage to the 4th floor of the building and that the fire would not affect the business or the jobs of the 80 employees.
www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/rosse ... cksteads_warehouse_fire/
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Theatre, Stavanger 21 April 2009
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenbladet reports that a fire on 21 April in the historic Rogaland Theatre in Stavanger was extinguished by the sprinkler system. The fire began when a high temperature stage lamp set fire to the stage curtain. A single sprinkler above the curtain operated to extinguish the fire before the arrival of the fire brigade. There was little damage.
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Hotel, Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg is the oldest European settlement in North America and has been in the forefront of applying modern fire protection techniques to protect original and restored structures,the following is self-explanatory:
"We had a fire in an ice machine at about 2:30 a.m. on May 24, 2009 in the basement of the Kings Arms Tavern and a single sprinkler head activated and put the fire out. The only damage was to the ice machine, which will not be making any more ice, but the building was not damaged, clean up was minimal, and the tavern opened at the usual time on the 24th The Kings Arms Tavern system is a standard wet pipe system".
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Crawshaw School, Pudsey, Leeds
BAFSA member Armstrong Priestley reports that an arson fire at Crawshaw School (no stranger to deliberately set fires) occurred at about 2300 hrs on 27 May. The contents of rubbish bins were piled against the doors of a plant room and ignited. two sprinkler heads operated and extinguished the fire before the arrival of the fire service. The system was reinstated by replacing two heads.
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Department Store, Peterborough 2 June 2009
A department store in Cambridgeshire has been forced to close after a fire in the early hours of the morning.
The fire at Westgate House in Peterborough began at 0350 BST and left the ground floor heavily smoke logged,Cambridgeshire Fire Service said.
The building houses the Anglia Regional Co-operative Society department store which has closed while it is cleaned.
The fire service said sprinklers contained the fire in the pharmacy and stopped it spreading.
Firefighters left the scene at about 0620 BST.
An investigation has found the cause of the fire to be electrical. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8081355.stm
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009
Immigration Detention Centre, Gatwick, 14 June 2009
The BBC reports that there was a fire at the immigration removal unit, Brook House. This was opened in March 2009 and can house 426 people
A fire was started and "disorder" broke out at a wing of an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport, Sussex police said.Officers said there were reports of minor damage and a blaze in the exercise yard at Brook House, which houses 312 people awaiting deportation.
No-one is believed to be hurt and the fire is said to have burnt itself out.The force said "disorder" involving 30 detainees started at about 2250 BST and was confined to one wing.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8098715.stm
A second fire, that was unrelated to the first, according to a spokesperson for G4S, was also started by "one of the detainees setting fire to his bedding" on Saturday afternoon. It was extinguished using sprinklers and fire extinguishers.
Posted on: Sunday 19 July 2009