About 85 people have been evacuated from a supermarket after a blaze described by firefighters as substantial.

The Business Sprinkler Alliance is using crisis talks on water saving measures to call on UK businesses to install automatic fire sprinklers as an active measure to save billions of litres of water every year.

Fire Defence has completed the installation of the Sprinkler System in The National Geographic's new store in the former food hall of Harrods.

Our Office Supervisor has recently passed her IOSH Managing Safely certification. We pass on our congratulations to her on behalf of all at Fire Defence.

We are proud to announce that two of our directors, Bill Johns of Fire Defence plc & Ian Kennedy of Fire Defence Northern, have been elected to serve on the BAFSA Council for 2012.

The Latest issue of our newsletter "Red" has been released.

In 1919, an American school teacher called Moina Michael was inspired by John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields to sell poppies as a way of raising money for ex-service men at the end of the WWI. It was an idea that caught on.

Fire Defence are pleased to announce that we are currently working on one of London's famous landmarks. When travelling down the Great Western Road (A4) into Hammersmith, you come across the Ark.

Contracts to install fire sprinkler systems in the 2012 London Olympic Village are the latest successes for Fire Defence.

Fire Defence has been awarded a number of projects in the new groundbreaking Shopping Centre in London.

A 40,000 litre tank collapsed whilst two operatives were inside installing the inner liner. Although there was significant potential for serious injuries, thankfully no one was injured.

Three firefighters have been arrested concerning the 2007 blaze at a vegetable packing warehouse in which four of their colleagues died....

A proposal for all new dwellings in Wales to be fitted with automatic sprinklers has moved a step closer ...

Shock at Penhallow inferno verdict - Britain's worst hotel fire for 40 years

Lord Harrison's Bill (which will require CLG to re-consider the benefits of domestic sprinklers) has received a third reading in the Lords and now goes to the Commons where it will be introduced by Alun Michael.