In the last month sprinklers have protected a school, a retirement housing block and a 13 storey residential building from fire. Yet again sprinklers are recorded as protecting the young, the elderly and the vulnerable from fire thus providing society with the necessary resilience to the damaging forces of fire.
Chip pan fire: Retirement Housing
Bedfordshire and Luton Fire and Rescue Service were called to a chip pan fire in a first floor kitchen of a residential block of 112 flats. A single concealed sidewall sprinkler head extinguished the fire and no injuries were reported. The sprinkler system was reinstated the following day within two hours of being reported. However due to the design of the system – provision of an isolation valve for each individual flat – the system stayed live for the remaining flats. Thanks to BAFSA member BMS Sprinkler for reporting this.
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service have reported the above-mentioned incident involving an electrical fire within the school’s server room located on the first floor. Two sprinkler heads activated which contained, extinguished the fire before arrival of fire crews at Garnock Community Campus, fire damage was restricted to under 10m².
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service (CFRS) responded to an incident involving a Ebike which caught light due to an electrical charging fault. The premises Automatic Fire Suppression System immediately operated with the activation of one sprinkler head extinguishing the fire, operational crews attended from Chester and Powey Lane fire stations
The resident was asleep in the property at the time of the incident but due to the activation of the sprinkler system no injuries were reported.