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Welcome to Info4Fire.com, the new resource for everyone installing, specifying and managing fire safety. Combining the editorial content of Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) with information on UBM's leading events for fire safety professionals, we aim to be the first port of call for the whole fire safety community.

Apart from our daily changing news content, read about some groundbreaking research on watermist systems in prisons, a sobering critique of the Fire Safety Order, and the fire safety strategy at the Natural History Museum's brilliant new Darwin Centre.

Chubb Fire has confirmed it is renewing its sponsorship of the Scout fire safety badge for a further three years.

At least three fire and rescue services have reported a significant rise in homeowners complaining about 10-year smoke alarms with sealed batteries ‘beeping’ - as if they were low on battery power -only a few years after their installation.

A fire safety programme aimed at young people between four and 17 years old who are known or suspected troublemakers with fire has been launched by Lancashire Fire and Rescue.

A textile factory in Birmingham was almost completely destroyed in a large fire on Sunday.

Around 30 people were evacuated from their homes when a fire in an Edinburgh block of flats spread through the roof void. The alarm was raised at approximately 6.45 am last Friday when Lothian and...

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Fire resisting glazing in doors, screens and windows has been fitted as part of the refurbishment of the Grade II listed magistrates court building in Bedford.

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Bar-Tec Fire & Security Systems have completed three installations in new schools in the Highlands.

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Hochiki fire detection and alarm equipment has been installed at the new 64-bedroom Hatchmoor nursing home in Great Torrington, North Devon.

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Air sampling smoke detection technology from Wagner UK has been used to help protect Ireland’s newest theatre complex...

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NASA has ordered Stat-X fire suppression generator units for both of its giant twin crawler transporters at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

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Bob Docherty takes issue with the Chief Fire Officers Association that inconsistency of enforcement by fire and rescue services is more perceived than real.

Bob Williams relates some inadequate fire risk assessments and calls for a national register to drive out the 'cowboys'.

In response to comments made by Tom Welland in the November issue of FSE about inconsistent enforcement of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the Chief Fire Officers Association has made the following statement...

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Andy Nicholson sets out the fire safety strategy for the Natural History Museum's new Darwin Centre, which combines scientific research, public access and the storage of valuable specimens.

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With more than a thousand fires a year, prisons in England and Wales need very specific means to suppress fires and allow the safe but secure evacuation of cells. Kelvin Annable reports on some ground breaking research.

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Peter Bressington examines the contribution that sprinklers can make to a performance-based fire safety design and the flexibility they provide in a conventional, prescriptive approach.

 

 

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