by DML | Jan 27, 2020 | Latest News
A MAN was rescued from a fire in Flint which had successfully been extinguished due to an ‘effective sprinkler system’. North Wales Fire and Rescue Service crews were called to a report of a fire at Bolingbroke Heights, Flint on Friday evening at 5.49pm...
by DML | Dec 3, 2019 | Latest News
Fire chiefs have called for the lowering of the threshold for the use of sprinklers in high rise blocks of flats in the wake of the recent Bolton fire. The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has submitted a response to the Government’s Approved Document B...
by DML | Dec 1, 2019 | Latest News
The RIBA has issued a final plea to the government to make sprinklers mandatory in all new homes The government has said its preferred change to fire safety regulations would reduce the trigger height for sprinklers in high-rise flats from 30m to 18m. It is proposing...
by DML | Nov 21, 2019 | Latest News
End ‘shameful’ fire safety record with sprinklers for all schools, unions urge Williamson John Dickens The government has been told its “shameful” record on fire safety must end, and demanded that sprinklers be fitted in all schools. Four education unions have written...
by DML | Nov 7, 2019 | Latest News
SPRINKLERS installed at an Oxford tower block have proved their worth after preventing a ‘significant fire’ from spreading. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said a sprinkler fitted as part of the refurbishment of the city’s five tower blocks...
by DML | Oct 24, 2019 | Latest News
Sprinklers saved a Nunhead flat from being “severely damaged” after a fire broke out on Tuesday morning. The fire started on the ground floor sheltered housing flat. But by the time firefighters arrived, the blaze had already been put out by a sprinkler system. The...
