Glen Thomas from Merseyside F&RS reports that at about 13:50 on Bank Holiday Monday, 6th May 2013, there was a successful sprinkler activation at St Chad's Parade Shopping Centre in Liverpool.

Professor Michael Rost of Magdeburg-Stendal University has made a call for more safety to be invested in buildings. In the years ahead there will be a significant decrease in the numbers of volunteer fire-fighters.

On Saturday, 30th March, at 22:10 a fire on the third floor of an apartment building in Aubervilliers spread to the fourth floor through the lift. Three people were killed and 13 injured, of whom four seriously.

On 4th November, two fire-fighters were killed in a flashover at a house fire at Digne-les-Bains in the Alps.