Elie van Strien, the Amsterdam Fire Chief, is calling on the mayor of Amsterdam to require sprinklers in underground car parks.

Spanish insurance companies have recorded a 12% increase in the number of fires for the first half of 2013

On 29th August a fire was reported at 22:15 in the Battenbroek care home in Walem, near Mechelen north of Brussels.

Agence France Presse reports that four people have died in a fire in a care home in Isère, near Grenoble.

Gulf News reports that Abu Dhabi will require both new and existing schools to fit sprinklers. 19 people died

The BBC reports that Senator Lyndon Farnham, Assistant Minister at Home Affairs, is calling on the island's politicians to support his call for new homes built on Jersey to have sprinklers. The Jersey Fire & Rescue Service has produced one of

The French fire brigade reports that a young woman has been killed and a fire-fighter seriously injured in an apartment fire in Paris.

A French fire-fighter has died of wounds sustained during an explosion at a fire in a poultry farm,

The Ruperti workshop for the disabled, located in Altötting east of Munich in Germany, has been fitted with a sprinkler system,

Officials at the European Parliament have prepared a briefing paper for Members of the European Parliament, MEPs,