Norwegian and international media report that a fire in the car park at Sola airport in Stavanger on 7 January caused the airport to close. The fire was reported at about 15:00 and all flights were cancelled until mid-morning the

On 30 October the report of phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry was published. The summary is 32 pages and the full report about 1,000 pages. Unfortunately phase one focussed on what happened but while receiving reports detailing flaws

The Irish Times reports that a fire in a car park in Cork has destroyed up to 60 cars. The fire started in a car in the Douglas Village shopping centre at about 18:30 on 31 August. The owner raised

WDR reports that one patient was killed and 12 people were injured in a fire in a Cologne hospital. One of the injured was a nurse who jumped out of the window to escape the flames. The fire brigade was

The Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition, NFPA, National Fire Chiefs Council and National Fire Sprinkler Network in the UK, and Tecnifuego in Spain are all supporting International Sprinkler Week with promotional activities and calls to strengthen fire safety legislation with requirements

On behalf of the EFSN and its members I would like to express our shock and sadness at the terrible damage fire has done to the Cathedrale of Notre Dame de Paris, one of the world's most famous and culturally

In 2018 Norway saw 22% growth in its sprinkler market, with 870,000 sprinklers shipped. 26% were residential sprinklers. A public information video is helping to support the development of this market. Here it is in English: Norwegian residential sprinkler video.

Tecnifuego, the Spanish fire trades association and EFSN member, has published a press release about Spanish fire losses. Conducted by the Spanish Insurance Association UNESPA, the data shows that 184 people died, of whom 144 in the home, an increase

An Australian judge has ruled that the owners of a building badly damaged by fire should receive most of their $AUS 12.7 million claim, with 39% to come from the fire engineer, 35% from the certifier and 25% from the

Sprinklers in apartments are rare in The Netherlands. When a fire in a high-rise apartment building was extinguished by the sprinkler system the media took an interest, initially focussing on water damage but also looking at how well the sprinkler