Recent years have seen a many fires in Fire stations - one of the the worst being in early December 2013 when a Norfolk Fire Station was entirely gutted, ruining two fire engines and thousands of pounds worth of equipment, but thankfully not injuring anyone. The Downham Market station had no sprinkler system in place, a small measure which could have seriously reduced the amount of damage caused.
Roy Harold, Norfolk Deputy Chief Fire Officer is quoted as saying
“If it’d been fitted with sprinklers, we wouldn’t be here today chatting about this because the fire would’ve been put out very, very quickly automatically. We now ask all new building developments to consider sprinklers very strongly.”
Other sire station fires have happened in recent years in 2012 in Scotland and 2009 in Northern Ireland and November 2013 in New York.
This goes to show that anyone can be the victim of a fire - which is why it is important to be aware of the facts on fire safety and how to reduce the risk of fire and the lower the danger if a fire breaks out.
Take a look at the infographic below for some key facts from a survey carried out by Firex International:
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