Dutch media reports that the fire brigade was called on the evening of 17 July to a fire in a shop on Maartensdijklaan in The Hague.

The Schenefeld volunteer Fire Brigade near Hamburg, northern Germany, reports that on Friday, 30th May it was called at 16:21 by a fire alarm to a home for the elderly.

NFPA's Fire Protection Research Foundation is hosting a seminar on High Challenge Storage Protection in London on 22nd May.

The Geneva Association has published its annual report of world fire statistics covering 2008-2010.

NEN 2077, the Dutch design, installation and maintenance standard for residential sprinkler systems, was published on 15th April.

There have been a number of sprinkler saves recently recorded in The Netherlands and UK. Here is a selection:

Last month the EFSN presented its new mobile sprinkler demonstration unit.

Statistics released by CIBV in The Netherlands show that in 2012 the Dutch sprinkler market grew 5% to 393,067 installed sprinklers,

Sprinklerfrämjandet, the Swedish sprinkler association and EFSN member, has reported a record number of sprinklers

Le Figaro reports that a 76-year-old woman was killed in a fire on 10th March in the Grand Hotel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, near Biarritz.