The Turkish Fire Protection Association will host a conference on fire and security in high-rise buildings. The EFSN will give a presentation at the conference. For more details see http://www.tuyak2013.com/index.asp?sayfa=english

The Fürstenwalde Fire Brigade reports that a sprinkler system has saved a shop store.

Fire has destroyed a 4,000m2 warehouse in Puy en Velay, near Lyon in France.

German media report that a fire in the St Antonius hospital in Wissen, near Koblenz has killed one patient

French media report that a fire in a retirement home in Aniane, 40km to the west of Montpellier

At a hearing for European Commissioner Designate Mimica, Frank Engel,

Russian and western news media report that a fire today in the metro in Moscow has caused thousands of people to be evacuated and the mass

Chinese state news reports that 119 people have been killed in a fire in a poultry farm in Dehui in Jilin province.