West Midlands Fire & Rescue Service reports that just after 22:00 on Monday, 18th January the fire service was called to a fire in a restaurant in the Star City entertainment complex in Birmingham.
The fire started in the cavity of a partition wall at the rear of a cooking griddle. Investigators believe that over time an accumulation of cooking oils had entered the cavity and eventually ignited. The partition wall did not extend to full ceiling height and so the fire discharged into the void above the false ceiling.
Two sprinkler heads, one on each side of the partition wall, activated during the fire and contained the damaged area to the inside of the wall cavity. The restaurant was able to reopen on 22nd January while the rest of the complex reopened as normal the following day.
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