The Danish Institute of Fire & Security Technology has published the results of a survey of over 500 sprinkler systems installed in Denmark and found that they had a 98% reliability!
It found that 98% of these systems were correctly designed for the risk and in good working order. The 2% of failures included systems shut down for maintenance. DIFT advised fire engineers to apply 98% reliability for sprinkler systems in their designs.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Channel Tunnel forced to fit sprinkler
The Channel Tunnel is finally to have a sprinkler system fitted after the third fire in 12 years forced Eurotunnel to admit that it had underestimated the risk of disaster deep under the sea bed.
Burning trains will stop at “extinguishing stations” that will be built at intervals along the 31-mile (50km) twin tunnels. Heat detectors will locate the fire and high-pressure jets of water or foam will be aimed automatically at the source as soon as the last passenger has escaped into the service tunnel.
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Burning trains will stop at “extinguishing stations” that will be built at intervals along the 31-mile (50km) twin tunnels. Heat detectors will locate the fire and high-pressure jets of water or foam will be aimed automatically at the source as soon as the last passenger has escaped into the service tunnel.
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Friday, 16 January 2009
Sprinkler Saves Swedish Shopping Centre
Gösta Holmstedt reports that at 05:44 on Monday, 15th September an automatic alarm was sent from a shopping centre to the SOS Alarm centre in Västerås, 90km north-west of Stockholm.
The fire brigade arrived within ten minutes and found that some oily rags had self-ignited but that the fire had been put out by a single sprinkler. A few hours later the shopping centre opened as normal.
The Managing Director of the shopping centre was delighted that the sprinkler system had worked so well.
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The fire brigade arrived within ten minutes and found that some oily rags had self-ignited but that the fire had been put out by a single sprinkler. A few hours later the shopping centre opened as normal.
The Managing Director of the shopping centre was delighted that the sprinkler system had worked so well.
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Monday, 5 January 2009
Fire crews called to school blaze
About 60 firefighters have been tackling a blaze at a school building in South Yorkshire.
The fire broke out in the old four-storey buildings of Edlington Comprehensive school on Tait Avenue in Doncaster just before 0600 GMT.
All four floors of the building were involved in the fire and some blasts were heard from within the building.
The new school block, which was due to open on Monday, was not affected by the incident.
BBC
The fire broke out in the old four-storey buildings of Edlington Comprehensive school on Tait Avenue in Doncaster just before 0600 GMT.
All four floors of the building were involved in the fire and some blasts were heard from within the building.
The new school block, which was due to open on Monday, was not affected by the incident.
BBC
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