The German fire protection trade association, bvfa, has collated news alerts about fires in healthcare facilities. These are fires large enough to become newsworthy. Through to the end of October 2022 there were 141 such fires in Germany, leading to

On 28 September over 90 delegates attended a one-day bilingual conference in Rome, jointly hosted by the EFSN and the Italian Chapter of the SFPE. Speakers included representatives from the Fire Brigade headquarters who gave a brief overview of Italian

On 13 September the Dutch government published a royal decree that introduced a regulation for sprinklers to be fitted in car parks larger than 1,000 m2 (about 40 cars) below sleeping risks. See Artikel 4.223a of the Dutch car park

On 23 June the Belgian government published a royal decree introducing requirements for sprinklers to be fitted in large underground car parks. The government also published an update to the fire code. Among other changes, it clarifies that if sprinklers

Sprinklerfrämjandet, the Swedish sprinkler association, has reported record sprinkler shipments for 2021. In total 911,214 sprinklers were sold, an increase of 20% on 2020 and 100,000 sprinklers more than the previous record in 2019. Of these sprinklers 41,760 were residential, 6,000

Greek and international media report that a fire on 6 April in a COVID ward of the Papanikolaou hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, killed one patient and left two seriously injured. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. There

EFSN hosted a webinar by Wes Baker of FM Global who gave an informative and helpful introduction to data sheets 2-0 and 8-9, discussing their origins and providing some details of the background to the design guidance they contain. He

Spanish media report that one guest has died and eight more were injured, of whom four seriously, in a fire at the Hotel Coronado in the centre of Barcelona. The fire was reported at about 13:00 on 12 February. Had

The coroner's report of the inquest into the deaths of two residents of a care home fire calls on the relevant government Minister, Michael Gove, to respond to a concern that care homes are not required to be fitted with

Spanish media report that a fire which was detected at 23:19 on 18 January has killed nine residents of a care home in Moncada, Valencia. 12 more people were hospitalised, among them fire officers. 81 residents lived in the affected