The Belgian postal service has announced it will mark the 50th anniversary of the Innovation department store fire

Sprinklerfrämjandet, the Swedish sprinkler association, has reported the numbers of sprinklers installed in Sweden in 2016.

It has taken more than a decade but today approval was given for the first residential sprinkler system in France.

London Fire Brigade reports that it was called yesterday, 31st January, at 11:45 to a fire at London Bridge Underground station.

The French Housing Ministry has announced that there were 10.4% more housing starts in 2016 than in 2015 and that planning approvals rose 14.2%.

Today BS 9999:2017 was published. This is a code of practice for fire safety in non-residential buildings and includes many incentives to fit sprinklers.

A ban on fitting sprinklers in ammonia refrigeration machinery rooms has been lifted.

Below are brief accounts of recent fires in industrial, commercial and residential buildings, all controlled or extinguished by sprinklers.

On 29 September a series of fire tests were run in an old apartment building in Bayonne, southwest France.

German media report that a fire in the Bergmannsheil University Hospital in Bochum has killed two people and injured many more