Towards the end of 2019, and already in 2020, sprinklers are operating efficiently and effectively saving lives, children’s education and businesses from fire.
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to reports of a fire in the basement of an office block. The sprinkler system had actuated and helped to suppress the fire which was extinguished in just over an hour.
wall-mounted sprinkler head
A fire in an 8th floor flat in an 11 storey building was extinguished by one side wall-mounted sprinkler head. The source of the fire was a tumble dryer.
Humberside Fire & Rescue Service were called the Kelvin Hall secondary school at around 4.45 am after a bin fire in one of the ground floor departments, which triggered the smoke alarm. The blaze was swiftly put out by crew, but the sprinklers were automatically started at the time of the fire and had controlled the blaze.
Intervention of a single sprinkler head
A pan of oil ignited in the kitchen of a flat on the third floor of a 11-storey student accommodation block – Chapter Highbury. London Fire Brigade attended but no action required due to the intervention of a single sprinkler head. Smoke damage only, no evacuation required in accordance with the in-house stay-put policy. And the sprinkler system reinstated shortly.
Three sprinkler heads actuated due to control a fire that had started in a mobility scooter that was on charge. The sprinkler system installed by BAFSA member Triangle and serviced by BAFSA member RSP Sprinklers who reinstated the system.