Fear Of Fire - Newspaper Clippings31 Die In Kings Cross Fire | | One November evening in 1987, a deadly fire broke out at Kings Cross Underground Station. Altogether 31 people were killed. |
Fans Killed In Bradford Stadium Fire | | At least 52 people are known to have died and many are missing after fire engulfed the Bradford City football stadium. |
Blaze Rages In Windsor Castle | | A fierce fire is raging through Windsor Castle in Berkshire, threatening one of the world’s greatest collections of art. |
Ozzy And Sharon Osbourne Saved By Fire Alarm | | Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were saved by a fire alarm after a blaze broke out while they were asleep in their mansion. |
9 Die In Deptford House Fire | | Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a blaze which engulfed a house in south London, early this morning. |
Smoke Alarm Saves Family | | A smoke alarm may have saved the lives of a Lancaster family. It is understood that a five year old had got hold of a cigarette lighter and ignited his bedding. |
15 Dead And 50 Injured In Paris Hotel Fire | | At least 15 people have died and around 50 people have been injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris, a fire service spokesman said. |
3 Killed In High-Rise Fire In Hertfordshire | | Two firefighters have died trying to save a resident trapped by a fire in a 17-storey block of flats. |
Four OAPs In Hospital After Blaze | | Four elderly people have been taken to hospital after a fire in a nursing home near Colwyn Bay. |
186 Die In Argentine Nightclub Fire | | The death toll has now risen to 186 after a fire that tore through Cro-Magnon Republic nightclub, in the Once district of the Argentinean capital, Buenos Aires. More than 700 others were injured. |
Library Building Engulfed In Fire | | A library and all its contents have been destroyed by fire after flames engulfed the Victorian building and the roof collapsed. |
Yet Another School Destroyed By Fire | | In a suspected arson attack, fire has completely destroyed a secondary school near Rugby, Warwickshire. |
Another Successful Fire Stopped By Residential Sprinkler System | | On Friday June 4th a residential sprinkler system operated and extinguished a fire in the kitchen of a house in Greenock. |
School Ravaged By Second Fire | | A West Yorkshire school which was destroyed three years ago in an arson attack has been badly damaged in another fire. |
Sprinklers For Life - Newspaper ClippingsFire Chiefs Call for School Sprinklers | | Fire chiefs have called for education authorities to pay for sprinkler systems in every classroom after blazes at two Midlands schools.Blazes at Chase Terrace | High School in Burntwood, Staffordshire, and Heath Park Comprehensive School, Wolverhampton, caused hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage last week. |
Members of Handicapped Family Die in House Fire | | Many questions are left unanswered after the deaths of three Logan County residents, Iva Gaskie, 79, Helen Gaskie, 53, and Charles Gaskie, 51, in a house fire Tuesday | at 900 Fagg Road near Dunmor.
All that remained in the smouldering heap that was once a home were a few bed frames and some other unrecognizable furniture
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15 Classrooms Damaged in The Tiffin Girls’ School | | More than 60 Fire fighters took five hours to bring the fire under control at The Tiffin Girls’ School in Kingston, south west London. |
Horton Mills School Saved By Sprinkler System | | On Sunday 1st October 2002, youths broke into the Horton Mills School in Oldham and set fire to a cardboard box of toys. Within five minutes the fire department was alerted by the activation | of a sprinkler head. Only one sprinkler head was activated and fire & smoke damage was limited to 1m2 of a room. The school was open as usual the following Monday morning. |
£5m Inferno Devastates School | | Nigel Turner, head of Crawshaw Secondary School stood watching as half his school disappeared in flames. At the height of the fire, water had to be pumped more than half a mile. |
Sprinklers Help Save a Shopping Centre | | The Claye Souilly shopping centre near the centre of Paris was saved by a sprinkler system. The fire started when a spotlight came | into contact with some clothing. The sprinkler system operated normally and most of the shops were reopened within an hour. |
Fire Chiefs Demand Care Home Sprinklers | | SCOTLAND’S firemasters last night demanded that sprinkler systems be fitted in all Scottish care homes in a bid to prevent the tragic events at an Uddingston home, where 14 people died, ever happening again.
Fire service leaders said installing systems around Scotland ...is the only | way to protect those, such as the elderly and vulnerable, who are difficult to evacuate from the scene of a fire when an alarm is raised.
Their demands come in the wake of the catastrophic blaze at Rosepark Care Home in Uddingston, which has claimed the lives of 14 elderly residents
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Two Children Die in Fire | | An inquiry has started into the cause of a fire that killed two children in a flat in Wallington, south-west London. A seven-year-old girl was found | dead in the flat after the blaze in the early hours of Sunday morning. Her four-year-old brother died minutes after being taken to hospital |
Hostel Fire Kills 15 Travellers | | A fire in an Australian hostel left 15 young travellers dead. Flames engulfed the Palace Backpackers’ Hostel | after midnight, sending dozens of guests fleeing by stairs and through windows to escape the fire. |
Sprinklers Prevent Multi-Million Pound Fire | | The fire occurred at the Trikon Technologies plant in Newport, South Wales. A fluorescent light overheated, ignited a thermoplastic diffuser and dropped onto the machinery. The fire | was extinguished by the operation of only one sprinkler head. If the fire had developed without the intervention of the sprinkler system, damages could have amounted to £20m. |
Fire in China Kills at Least 309 on Christmas Night | | A four storey commercial building in Luoyang, in the Henan province of China was the scene of a fire killing at least 309 people on Christmas night. |
Fire Chief Urges Home Sprinklers | | Firemen set two houses ablaze in north Wales in a dramatic exercise to illustrate the effectiveness of home sprinkler systems. Officers used kitchens at derelict council properties in Caia Park, Wrexham - one fitted with a sprinkler, the other without, to show how quickly a fire can take hold.
North Wales’s chief fire officer Simon Smith said he wanted to “dispel the myths” surrounding sprinkler systems. Mr Smith said he believed sprinklers could become as effective as the introduction | of car safety belts 30 years ago to reduce fatalities.
“We are ahead of the game in Wales, with the National Assembly looking at new social housing being fitted with such systems,” explained Mr Smith. “We have found that although smoke alarm ownership in Wales is about 80%, only 30-40% of them are actually working.
“Smoke alarms are also only a warning device, which does not immediately help the old and infirm and those with physical problems if a fire breaks out.
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49 Children Die in House Fires | | Every year the fire service is called out to about 71,000 house fires, ... And every year almost 50 children | die in house fires. Over half of all child injuries and child deaths affect the under fives.
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Dormitory Fire Tragedy averted by Newly Installed Sprinklers | | The fire broke out at 3:15 a.m. in a first floor room where students empty their garbage. It was extinguished almost immediately by a newly installed sprinkler system. |
Residential Sprinklers Triumph in Trowbridge | | A house in Trowbridge has been spared serious damage by fire due to the operation of a sprinkler system fitted to the house when it was built. The fire, which started in a garden shed, was so severe that it broke into the house | when heat destroyed the kitchen backdoor. One of the sprinkler heads operated in the kitchen and the fire was halted in its tracks. Damage to the kitchen itself was minimised and the rest of the house was completely saved. |
Arson in Hampshire Schools Costs £5m | | In Hampshire in 2002 there were 25 serious fires in schools including Halying Island and Thornden in Chandlers Ford. | Newlands School in Southampton and Pinewood in Farnborough were victims in 2003, with similar trends continuing. |
Fatal Fire in Six Story Hotel | | At least 25 people were killed in a tragic fire which was reportedly started by the concierge’s girlfriend | after an argument. The Paris hotel was a six storey, one star hotel with poor fire security. |
Boy And Girl Die In Flat Fire | | Neighbours have been telling of their struggle to try to save two young children who died when flames tore through | their home. A four-year-old boy and his sister, seven, died in the fire at their maisonette in south London. |
Five Members of NRI Family Die in Fire | | In a tragic incident Kavita, an NRI housewife from Leicester, England, and four members of her family son Sunit (6), daughter Pritika (3), the children’s grandmother Vinod and their uncle Bipan | were killed when a massive fire gutted their home. According to a PTI report, her husband, Mr Deepak Sharma, was the only survivor as he had left for work minutes before the fire broke out |
Three Children Die in House Fire | | Three children have died and a woman has been critically injured in a house fire in Greater Manchester. A three-year-old boy | and 11-month-old girl died at the house in Albion Road, Rochdale, early on Saturday. A boy, aged nine, died later in hospital. |
Four Die in House Blaze Horror | | Detectives were investigating how a young mum and three children were killed in a ferocious blaze which swept through a Manchester house. |
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