Many will remember the fire that closed the channel tunnel on 17 January. It was widely reported in the press

The BBC reports that a fire on 30th January has caused major damage to a new hospital which was due to open in April.

In its recent Panorama 3 programme, NDR included an article on care home fire deaths.

German media reports that eight fire-fighters were injured, two seriously, in a fire in a shopping street in Leverkusen.

Dutch news media report that a fire in the Centraal underground car park in the centre of Arnhem was controlled by the sprinkler system.

On 14 April 2015 the European Fire Sprinkler Network and Turkish Fire Protection Association, TUYAK, will host a sprinkler seminar in Istanbul.

Spanish media report that a fire on Sunday, 16th November has destroyed the Campofrio meat products factory in Burgos, northern Spain.

London Fire Brigade reports that at 20:23 on Tuesday 11^th November, fire crews were called to an automatic fire alarm actuating at a three storey secondary school on St Mary’s Road in Newham, east London.

At about 11:00 on 22nd October the Paris Fire Brigade was called to a fire in an underground car park. Over 80 fire-fighters attended

The police in Salzgitter, Germany issued a press release announcing that a 57-year-old woman was killed in a fire in a care home in Wolfenbüttel on 29th September.