Tall Building Fire Safety - Case Studies

For a volunteer fire department in Ried, leaving gloves, shoes, and boots to air dry is now a thing of the past, thanks to the drying panels from Wintersteiger AG, which have been in use since the beginning of November 2020. Regional Fire Inspector and Fire Chief, Josef Leherbauer is delighted with the successful solution. He said, “To save energy, we chose one small and one large dryer that can be used as required. Both are equipped with different nozzles for gloves and boots. As the dry...

On September 2, 2018, the world watched as flames engulfed the National Museum of Brazil and 90 percent of its artifacts from around the world. Recovery efforts are still underway, but almost certainly lost were the museum’s massive butterfly and arthropod collections numbering in the millions, a 3,500-year-old Chilean mummy, an 811,500-year-old skull said to be the oldest in existence from the Americas, several dinosaur skeletons, a 2,700-year-old sarcophagus among hundreds of other anci...

Three-and-a-half years on from a destructive fire, which engulfed a plastics manufacturer’s factory with no sprinkler system, in Lancashire, United Kingdom, the lasting effect is undeniable, as the £50 million turn-over business has gone into administration cost cuts, with the loss of 200 jobs. Total Polyfilm site fire The fire at the Total Polyfilm site, located in Bamber Bridge, on May 10, 2016, took 60 firefighters to control and resulted in the total loss of the factory. Nearby...

The fire-stopping expertise of Quelfire combined with the installation skills of RA Fire Protection has created a safe, compliant residential development in Skipton. Belle Vue Mills in Skipton, North Yorkshire, is a refurbishment project that will create 39 high-quality apartments. The main contractor at Belle Vue Mills was Triton Construction, which has its head office in Liversedge, West Yorkshire, and a North West regional office in Warrington. Project challenges There were several challen...

A key driver in the successful delivery of the UK’s £42.6 billion HS2 project, the new National College for High Speed Rail, is now protected by industry-renowned fire panels from Advanced. National College for High Speed Rail Located in Doncaster, a town historically known for its prominent role in rail engineering and maintenance, the college occupies 76,000 sq. feet of teaching and workshop space, with specialist training installations, including 150 meters of external track and...

FireVu multi-detectors facilitate quick fire detection and remedy at Worcestershire warehouse Budget Waste Management operates a waste removal, disposal and recycling service. It processes the waste it collects at its large waste processing facility in Worcestershire. The company deals with a great variety of material, much of which is flammable. So the risk of fire is significant and the potential impact of a fire outbreak is extremely serious. FireVu multi-detectors rapidl...

The Ankeny Fire Department added the power of two Iowa-built fire trucks from Toyne Fire Apparatus to its fleet. Toyne delivered the identical pumpers to Ankeny, Iowa’s department in late May, bolstering its response time and firefighting capabilities. Pumper Features Toyne designed Ankeny’s pumpers for strength and reliability, building both bolted stainless steel bodies on the sturdy frame of a Spartan Metro Star LFD chassis with a 10-inch raised roof. The apparatus is driven by...

The Securiton aspirating smoke detection (ASD) system has been selected as the fire protection method for a new cold store to be operated by one of the UK’s major supermarket retailers.  The new 68-truck bay, 30,000 square meter hub in Pineham, near Milton Keynes, is providing a state-of-the-art facility, and has been built alongside an existing 58,000 square meter distribution center to which it will be linked via interconnecting yards. Located next to Junction 15a of the M1 at th...

REV Group, a manufacturer of globally renowned specialty vehicle brands, has entered a multi-year partnership with HAAS Alert Safety Cloud service on E-ONE, Ferrara and KME fire apparatus. AXIS Smart Truck Technology E-ONE, Ferrara and KME fire apparatus with AXIS Smart Truck Technology will also be equipped with the HAAS Safety Cloud to allow first responders to broadcast their route to nearby motorists via smartphone apps when emergency vehicles are nearby. By delivering real-time alerts to...

Global safety equipment manufacturer, MSA Safety Incorporated has announced that it has executed a US$ 10 million contract to provide G1 self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and accessories to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and Country Fire Authority (CFA) of Victoria, Australia, two of the country’s largest and most well-respected fire departments. For MSA Safety Incorporated, the contract represents the largest G1 SCBA order placed till date. The majority of the order is expec...

KME Fire Apparatus, globally renowned manufacturer of fire apparatus, has announced the delivery of 20 KME Custom Pumpers to Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD). KME Custom Pumpers The new trucks will join hundreds of KME apparatus currently in service at the LACoFD. The custom pumpers are built on KME’s Severe ServiceTM cab and chassis. The Severe ServiceTM chassis was engineered in conjunction with the fire service and designed for use in extreme conditions. KME’s Severe...

Great Bend, Kansas is home to a new pumper after the Great Bend Fire/EMS Department received the apparatus in mid-January, 2018. Built by premier fire apparatus manufacturer, Toyne, Inc., the pumper will assist in the firefighting efforts of the department, which serves 156 square miles of Baron County, in Kansas. Toyne pumper Toyne, Inc. built Great Bend's pumper on a Spartan Gladiator LFD 10-inch chassis Toyne, Inc. built Great Bend's pumper on a Spartan Gladiator LFD 10-inch chassis and is...

Global safety equipment manufacturer MSA Safety announced the deployment of 1,100 state-of-the-art G1 self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) to the Chicago Fire Department (CFD). The contract was formally awarded in late 2016 and the current deployment represents the completion of a one-year, multi-phase delivery and training process. The last time Chicago deployed new SCBA technology was on September 11, 2001. “This latest rollout of new SCBA gear for our fire personnel features the l...

ZIEGLER has announced delivery of the vehicles number 49 and 50 from the second purchase order of Hessen of about 50 emergency vehicles, LF 10 KatS. These vehicles were handed over to the fire brigades of Eschenburg/Eibelshausen and Herbstein (8th collective order by the county of Hesse), at the headquarters of the ZIEGLER Group, in Giengen, Germany. LF 10 KatS emergency vehicles Since 2012, ZIEGLER has already delivered 100 LF 10 KatS emergency vehicles in total to various fire brigades in th...

ZIEGLER announced delivering three new rescue vehicles to the fire brigades of Hengelo, Almelo and Enschede, located in Veiligheidsregio Twente, in the Netherlands. All the three vehicles are built on Volvo chassis FH 420 6x2 with X-Track hydraulic front-wheel drive. Each of the chassis is equipped with a controlled trailing axle, air suspension, a Powertronic transmission and a driver cabin with 3 seats. Ziegler ALPAS system The rescue vehicles come equipped with superstructure Ziegler ALPAS...

Providing effective fire detection for high value property, modern residential and commercial, is a challenge. The voluminous spaces and aesthetic considerations are a couple of key issues that must be considered when choosing and installing effective fire detection solutions. The amazing creativity of modern building designs, being or have been built in considerable numbers, present a new set of challenges for fire detection solutions. The Gherkin, a building FireVu help protect, is just one...

Most of the systems installed at Cobalt Business Park use Hochiki Europe's Enhanced Systems Protocol (ESP) With around 40 individual buildings housing over 160,000m 2 of prime office space, Cobalt Business Park is the largest complex of its kind in the UK. Located just a short drive from central Newcastle, it has played a vital part in the regeneration of the region, which is now one of the nation’s most vibrant and forward thinking business hubs. Building work began ov...

The University Hospital of Wales had been in use for some 20 years and several aspects of its design did not meet current hospital and fire safety standards. Project: The University Hospital of Wales is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe. The main ward block houses 800 beds and is a high-rise building. In addition, there is a three-story medical block and a three-story dental block. The three buildings are interconnected by subways and tunnels. The hospital had been in use for so...

  TOA Europe is celebrating a huge new audio network installation at OpernTurm TOA Europe is celebrating a huge new audio network installation comprising TOA VM-3000 Series PA/VA systems, SX-2000 audio management systems and loudspeakers, in Frankfurt, Germany. Due to open later this year, the OpernTurm (literally 'Opera Tower') is the latest addition to Frankfurt's celebrated skyline. Comprising a 170 m high-rise building and a 26 m low-rise perimeter development, Oper...