A school residential block is thought to be the first in north Wales to install sprinklers after new fire legislation came into effect.
Wales became the first country in the world to make it mandatory that all new buildings – such as homes, flats and care homes – be fitted out.
Ruthin School’s 40-bedroom block for boarding pupils has a system installed.
North Wales Fire and Rescue’s Stuart Millington ...
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Southwark Specialised Housing scheme: Thursday 1st September 2016
At about 1515 on Thursday 1st September 2016 a fire occurred on the cooker in the flat of an 82 year 
old resident at the residential specialised housing scheme in Canterbury Place, London. London Fire Brigade also report that there were some issues with hoarding.
The block had been fitted with automatic fire sprinklers to BS9251 as part of a scheme ...
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Ipswich Office Block: August 2016
At 2019 on 29th August 2016 Suffolk Fire & Rescue Service received an AFA signal to a 6 storey office block towards the centre of the town. On arrival at the premises operational crews were faced with smoke issuing from the car park at ground floor level and upon investigation it was identified that an amount of cardboard and rubbish had been placed within the car ...
At around 2215 on Saturday 3rd September a fire broke out in a ground floor test area of a semi conductor manufacturer in Langley Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
The electrical fire activated one pendant sprinkler head on the wet pipe system within the two storey factory and the fire was reported to be ‘out on arrival’.
Details of this incident were confused by the fact that a large fire service attendance and ...
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To make sure a sprinkler installation will work it must be properly designed and installed.
There are two main independently accredited organisations which undertake the certification of sprinkler installers.
Xova Warrington under their FIRAS brand,
LPCB/BRE Certification Ltd
Undertakes third party verification of:
These certificates are ...
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Firefighters had to use water from a nearby swimming pool to bring a blaze at a school in Essex under control.
Twelve fire crews were sent to Cecil Jones Academy in Southend after the blaze broke out at 16:30 BST.
Essex Fire and Rescue Service said the fire had spread from the roof of the two-storey building to a
classroom below.
Divisional officer Neil Fenwick said crews were initially hampered by a ...
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Due to recent expansion and the award of New National Contract FDS are looking to recruit additional servicing engineers with a can do attitude based in the North West and Midland areas.
The main responsibilities will be the following:
Fire Defence Servicing are looking for an in house fabricator to manufacture pre-fabricated pipework for fire sprinkler systems. You will be required to carry out the following
Fire Sprinkler Installation Engineers (UK Wide)
Fire Defence Servicing Ltd (FDS) is a leading designer/installer of Sprinkler Systems to a wide range of businesses throughout the UK and occasionally abroad.
Due to expansion and internal development FDS are currently looking for additional Fire Sprinkler Installation engineers Throughout the UK (Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Reading etc)
The role is to carry out new installation, extensions and remedial works on all types of sprinkler systems to include Wet/Alternate/Dry and Preaction. Ideally you ...
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Compulsory sprinklers needed for warehouses
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is calling for sprinklers to be made a legal requirement in all new warehouses over 2000m2 as average pay outs for commercial fires break the £25,000 barrier for the first time.
Guidance from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) for fire sprinkler installation only recommends that warehouses in England and Wales should be provided with a fire sprinkler system if they are larger than ...
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