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Sprinkler System Stops Spread of Fire at
The Plaza |
11-30-11 |
Patch.com
Firefighters called to an alarm at The Plaza shopping
center early Wednesday found a small fire near a dry
cleaners' awning sign. By Lisa Sink A small fire on the
awning of a dry cleaning business in The Plaza shopping
center activated a sprinkler ... |
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Fire Chief Calls For Sprinklers In New
Homes |
11-29-11 |
AboutMyArea
Chief Fire Officer Mark Jones is supporting a national
campaign for sprinklers to be fitted in newly-built
homes. The campaign was launched by the National Fire
Sprinkler Network, a non-profit organisation which works
with all of the UK's fire and ... |
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Firefighters Respond To Retirement
Complex For Second Time |
11-28-11 |
Patch.com
He said fire was coming from the roof when firefighters
arrived Sunday, but was contained because of the
sprinklers. Without them, he said the entire roof could
have been destroyed before they arrived. “Basically,
things worked,” he said. ... |
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Sprinkler system requirement for new
homes advances in NJ |
11-28-11 |
Newsworks.org
"Sprinkler systems have been protecting lives for over
100 years throughout the United States. Building homes
without residential sprinkler systems equates to
building substandard housing," said Tim Travers with the
National Fire Protection Association ... |
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Focus on sprinklers- Cape Fire Department
to host seminar |
11-26-11 |
Cape Coral Daily Breeze
Fire marshals and fire prevention officials statewide
are expected to attend. "It's about residential fire
sprinklers in new homes," Cape Fire Marshal Alan Carter
said, adding that experts have been talking about it for
a long time. ... |
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Sprinklers should be fitted in 'all new
homes' |
11-25-11 |
Fire Industry Association
Sprinklers should be fitted in all new residential
properties, according to East Sussex Fire and Rescue
Service. Des Prichard, chief executive and chief fire
officer of the fire service, has backed the National
Fire Sprinkler Network's campaign to ... |
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Sprinklers save apartment residents from
serious fire damage |
11-23-11 |
Las Vegas Sun
By Jackie Valley (contact) Las Vegas Fire and Rescue
credits an apartment sprinkler with containing a fire
and sparing the residents of a Las Vegas apartment
complex from being displaced for the holidays. Fire
department spokesman Tim Szymanski said ... |
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Sprinkler stops dryer fire at hospital |
11-22-11 |
Mail Tribune
A fire sprinkler extinguished a laundry fire on early
this morning in a laundry room at Providence Medford
Medical Center, 1111 Crater Lake Ave. Cleaning rags in
an electric clothes dryer ignited and activated the fire
sprinkler system, ... |
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Calls to make nursing home sprinklers
mandatory |
11-21-11 |
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
NSW is considering making fire sprinkler systems
compulsory in all nursing homes following the Quakers
Hill tragedy. Premier Barry O'Farrell said the question
would be part of an urgent departmental review into
nursing homes safety he has ordered. ... |
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VA Confirms Sprinkler Mandate for Nursing
Homes |
11-19-11 |
Occupational Health and Safety
... and state home facilities operating nursing home
facilities existing as of June 25, 2001, have five years
to come into compliance with the automatic sprinkler
requirement of the 2009 edition of NFPA 101, the
National Fire Protection Association's ... |
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Call for compulsory sprinklers |
11-18-11 |
West Sussex County Times
“The evidence speaks for itself - no one has ever died
in a fire when their home was fitted with a sprinkler
system. “The Welsh Government have recognised this,
which is why they have now introduced legislation, we
would like to see similar legislation ... |
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Sprinkler System Prevents Major Fire |
11-16-11 |
CTV Vancouver Island
The Four Mile Pub was constructed in 1958 and in 2007
underwent an extensive renovation, including the
installation of a new sprinkler system. Without the
sprinklers, fire crews say the outcome would have been
much worse. Instead, the damage is mostly ... |
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Fredericton fire contained by sprinklers |
11-12-11 |
Times and Transcript
The fire was located in an office, under a counter and
VanHorne said it didn't take long to put out. "When they
actually located the fire, the sprinkler had contained
the fire," he said. VanHorne said in addition to the
trucks, fire prevention was on ... |
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Nonprofit HFSC Releases Results of New
Home Fire Sprinkler Study |
11-10-11 |
FireEngineering.com
The group studied life safety and property protection in
homes with and without fire sprinkler systems and
reviewed fire experience in nearly 7000 sprinklered
homes in Buckingham, New Britain, Warrington, Warwick
and Wrightstown Townships as well as ... |
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Working Sprinkler Saves Mt. Prospect Home |
11-9-11 |
Journal & Topics Newspapers Online
Upon entering the garage, firefighters found the charred
remains of a rubbish fire. Fire officials said all
occupants were able to exit the home quickly because of
the activation of the residential fire sprinkler
system's interior bell. ... |
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modern houses go up In flames faster |
11-6-11 |
Kansas.com
Particularly because of the synthetic "fuel package,"
the National Fire Protection Association is advocating
for sprinkler systems to become part of building codes
in one- and two-family homes nationwide, Willette said.
Unlike what people see in TV ... |
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Groups Want Mandatory Sprinklers In New
Homes |
11-4-11 |
WCVB-TV
BOSTON -- Fire protection groups set flames to two rooms
to show how home sprinklers can save lives and property.
It was a demonstration to win support for the effort to
make sprinkler systems mandatory in new single-family
homes in Massachusetts. ... |
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Sprinkler System Limits Damage from Early
Morning Industrial Fire |
11-3-11 |
Brantford Expositor
The suspected incendiary fire spread to the interior of
the structure via a second floor window. Damage to the
interior of the building was limited to approximately
$5000 - $7000 due to the building's functioning
sprinkler system, which held the ... |
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