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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Friday, 16 January 2009
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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