Fire Safety Management - Case Studies

BizSpace is the United Kingdom’s renowned provider of regional and flexible workspace for professionals. They offer modern offices, studios and workshop units to a vast range of small businesses across the country. fire and security installation APE Fire & Security were tasked with delivering a complete fire and security installation for Steel House in Fareham, one of BizSpace’s well-established and refurbished centers in the South West England region. The revamped building wil...

Skyscrapers form the center of the world’s modern cities. As a result of progress in the construction industry, there are hardly any limits to the shape and construction of buildings. As a manufacturer of high-pressure water mist technology, AQUASYS is meeting this challenge together with a worldwide network of partners, supporting experts in cost-efficient planning. The company was once again able to prove its worth, in the center of Tallinn in Estonia, by protecting the new built 30-sto...

KME Fire Apparatus, an internationally renowned manufacturer of fire apparatus, has delivered eleven KME custom trucks to Hamilton Fire Department in Ontario, Canada. These trucks will join dozens of KME vehicles currently in service in Hamilton. The Hamilton Fire Department operates out of 30 locations across the city with 26 emergency response stations. Their 430-square-mile response area includes high-rise buildings, heavy industry and rural farm land, requiring a variety of apparatus. The r...

Avinor, the Norwegian airport operator has equipped additional regional airports with Rosenbauer fire fighting vehicles. A dense aviation network connects the Norwegian Namsos Airport, also referred to as Høknesøra Airport, with more than 40 regional airports throughout the country of Norway. Namsos, located about 500 km northwest of Oslo on the central Norwegian coast, is one of the smallest airports in the country. Here, only so-called STOL (short take-off and landing) machines...

Almost half a million passengers and more than 50,000 tons of freight were transported through Linz Airport in Linx, Austria in 2018. This makes it the fifth largest airport in Austria in terms of passenger traffic and the second largest in terms of freight transport. PANTHERs aRFF vehicles As an airport of this category, it needs two high-performance aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) vehicles - which is why two Rosenbauer PANTHERs are doing their duty in Linz. An additional Rosenbauer A...

Ljubljana (known as Laibach in Germany), is not only the capital of Slovenia, but also a cultural center of Southeastern Europe. Modern large buildings as well as a picturesque old town with narrow alleys, small bridges, and angular buildings of past centuries bear witness to this. This is a special challenge for the emergency personnel of the city's professional fire department, the Ljubljana Fire Department. When purchasing a new turntable ladder, they therefore opted for the L32A-XS from Rose...

Recently fire crews were called to a fire at Felixstowe docks, the UK’s busiest port. A fire had broken out in one of the dockside cranes. While the fire in the ship-to-shore crane was small, dock workers were moved to a place of safety and operations were halted temporarily. This incident could have been much more serious. Docks and ports handle many potential hazards such as fertilizers, animal feed, and wood chip. Additionally, the engines of large cranes and vehicles used to move carg...

A fire at Veolia’s recycling center off the Old Kent Road was likely caused by a wrongly-disposed lithium battery, the company said. Veolia issued a warning to Southwark residents to safely dispose of their waste after the fire, to which four fire engines and 25 firefighters were called. There were no injuries, added the London Fire Brigade – but it said the incident could’ve been worse if a sprinkler system hadn’t been in place. 500kg of recyclable materials were damaged...

The State Laboratory has been the first transnational state research institution in Germany to deal with a wide range of topics in consumer protection, radiation protection, animal disease control and disaster control for more than 10 years. In the four-storey building, 249 m² of laboratories with security level 3 are protected with a modern AQUASYS high-pressure water mist system. In order to meet the special requirements of laboratory operations, the fire protection concept was implement...

Emergency Reporting® (ER), the pioneer in cloud-based reporting and records management software for Fire and EMS agencies, is excited to welcome new customer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Division of Fire and Rescue Services (MD). Emergency Reporting’s Fire and EMS package will be utilized by the NIH Division of Fire and Rescue Services on the Ultra Secure hosting platform to provide fire, emergency medical, hazardous materials, and specialized rescue services. Records man...

Global safety products manufacturer and service provider, VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has won a contract to supply CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, with personal protective equipment (PPE) and servicing for approximately 16,000 passengers annually flying to and from the company’s platforms in the North Sea. VIKING has already begun providing helicopter carry-on safe equipment, survival suits, lifejackets, armbands and helicopter transit bags for...

A prison in the south of England with an operating capacity of 690 prisoners is currently being comprehensively renovated as part of a five-year construction work program. Work has already been completed and includes changes in the health sector, a new electrical system, a new visitor complex and the modernization of the fire protection concept. Firefighting system AQUASYS developed an optimized firefighting system for prison cells and common security areas. This system must ensure efficient c...

Following their initial integration of a TETRA system across the four airports in 2012, MAHB has decided to upgrade their hand-portable devices to the latest in TETRA technology, to enable further efficiency gains from the use of data applications. Sepura SC2 series radios The SC2 series radios are built for noisy environments such as airports, providing MAHB with clear communications whatever the weather, or air traffic levels. The SC2 series hand-portable radios are resilient, intelligent an...

Patol has completed its latest industrial fire project, working with designers and installers Hall & Kay Fire Engineering and P. Gibson (Services) to provide protection for the UK operation of a global specialty chemicals company. The UK facility of Ashland Industrial Chemicals is based in Kidderminster, part of a business that has been operating for almost a century, starting out as an oil company to diversify into a chemicals conglomerate serving a wide range of markets, from construction...

When the Dusseldorf Fire Department's diver squadron is alerted, they are instantly on the move. After a minute of set-up time, the crew is sitting in the vehicle and on its way to the scene. Everything it needs for the mission is there already on board the water rescue truck, a Rosenbauer AT on a MAN TGM 13,290 with 290hp, all-wheel drive and 13 ton gross vehicle weight. The lifeboat, if necessary, is already attached as well. Water rescue truck Dusseldorf Fire Department's water rescue truck...

GearGrid’s products are being used by all of the student-athletes at Hutchinson High School, located in Hutchinson, Minnesota, daily in practice. “Each sport has its own storage cage. They have padlocks that only the coaches can access,” said Thayne Johnson, Hutchinson’s Activities Director. GearGrid’s storage solutions These storage cages replaced Hutchinson High School’s old flimsy cabinets that weren’t holding up to the various requirements of the s...

CFD was requested by HCRS for mutual aid assistance on a confirmed accident with entrapment at Logan Hill. R-1 responded and arrived without incident to find a single SUV off the roadway head-on into a tree. The vehicle was upright and appeared to be very unstable due to its position on the steep roadside. HCRS and EMS were on scene PTA. The lead paramedic advised they had one critical patient heavily pinned by the dash and his lower extremities VUMC Lifeflight was enroute. A second non-critica...

Global safety products manufacturer and service provider, VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has announced winning a major contract to build and supply a VIKING Norsafe Munin S1200 patrol boat for the Norwegian police force. Police patrol and rescue boats The vessel, which will be built in Arendal, Norway and delivered in December, will carry out police patrol and rescue missions in the East Police District covering the 38 municipalities from Gardermoen to the Swedish border. Seeing off competition...

A line-type detector supplied by Patol has been selected as the heat detection method in a new fire protection installation in a laboratory working in a Hazardous environment operating within a Ministry Of Defence site. The fire safety at the laboratory is provided through a Fire Detection system installed by Honeywell featuring a SecuriSens ADW 535-2 line-type heat detector connecting to an extinguishant Fire Control Panel. The detector from Securiton, for whom Patol is the distributor in the...

Chubb Sicli completes the installation of a full suite of fire safety and security equipment and services at Webster University Geneva. The new equipment will better protect students, staff and facilities with essential fire and security systems across the entire campus. Chubb Sicli is a part of Chubb Fire & Security Group, which is a part of Carrier, a provider of innovative heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire, security and building automation technologies...

Established in 1975, Melvin Weaver & Sons has provided crop protection products for the agriculture industry for over 40 years. The company’s steady growth throughout these years generated the need for additional space at their Lancaster, Pennsylvania based facility. In summer 2014, Melvin Weaver began planning the construction of a 16,800-square-foot addition to its warehouse. Having a long-time relationship with Kint Fire Protection, Melvin Weaver turned to Kint to explore fire supp...

In a fire, a safe, reliable source of power is of paramount importance. Tasked with supplying emergency firefighting power for Victorian mill conversions, Newburn Power Rental’s expertise and commitment to health and safety made them the perfect partner for power safety - instilling confidence should the worst happen. The client, who are converting mills into luxury apartments – initially in and around Leeds, Halifax and Manchester, the centres of Victorian industry – gave New...

Northern Ireland’s first ‘lifestyle inspired care home’ is being protected by C-TEC’s innovative life-safety systems. Designed by Bailie Associates, installed by Turner Electrical NI and supplied and commissioned by Fire NI, the systems provide the highest levels of protection for residents and staff at Milesian Manor, an award-winning care home in Magherafelt. Employing over 50 dedicated staff, the luxurious home specializes in creating spaces designed to conjure up mem...

Commfire has just completed its latest project for TOG (The Office Group) new 13 story offices at Lyric Square, Hammersmith. This was a challenging project as they inherited a new radio fire alarm system which had over 200 faults. Smoke vent systems Following their survey visits and meetings with the building contractor - Parkeray and electrical contractor - Southbourne Electrical, and advice from the fire alarm manufacturer - Electro Detectors (EDA), they submitted a proposal to correct the i...

The Frankfurt Fire Department is one of the largest and most well-equipped fire departments in the whole of Germany. There are twelve fire and rescue stations scattered throughout the city of Frankfurt am Main with a total of over 1,000 firefighters. In addition, there are about 900 active firefighters working at 28 volunteer fire departments. 3-axle chassis ladders In 2014, the Frankfurt Fire Department took the first step towards replacing its aerial ladders, which have been in service since...

Things get hot when pots and pans are polished in the production process at Kuhn Rikon, the number one Swiss brand for crockery and kitchen aids. Dust explosions can easily occur if the temperature rises above a certain threshold, which in the worst-case scenario can lead to significant fire damage and production outages. Initiated by ITES GmbH, MOBOTIX and Hekatron Brandschutz teamed up in a joint project to deliver 360° protection against this risk for Kuhn Rikon. MOBOTIX thermal imaging...

Designing a reliable fire detection system for high-risk industrial environments can prove particularly challenging. There are a number of factors that need to be taken into consideration, not least the location and scale of the site. Extra care needs to be taken at sites where operations are classed as hazardous and where there may be a risk of explosion. The safety of all individuals working at or visiting the site must also be taken into account. And, of course, the chosen system will have t...

Tottenham based Lancasterian Primary School is focused on the delivery of a safe and welcoming learning environment, ‘where everyone is included and creativity is valued.’ The school is persistently seeking new ways to enhance and improve its offer to the children and the local community. The school had an established high-profile intruder alarm system on site and consulted with Amthal to create a maintenance program that could operate with no disruption to learning timetables. Saf...

Stockholm Air Ambulance has recently upgraded their TETRA hand-portable radios to the latest in TETRA technology, Sepura’s SC20, for use on the Swedish RAKEL network. There is a total of 10 air ambulances in Sweden, operating in Norrtälje (2), Gällivare, Lycksele, Östersund, Uppsala, Göteborg, Mora, Karlstad and Visby. Stockholm Air Ambulance station Stockholm’s air ambulance station is based at Mellingeholm airport, where two air ambulances are based. This air...

Forest Helicopters Inc. has signed an order for a light single-engine H125 helicopter from Airbus Helicopters Canada. A seasoned utility operator with Ontario bases in Kenora and Pickle Lake, the company will utilize the aircraft for a variety of missions including diamond drill support, powerline maintenance, fire suppression, wildlife services, airborne geophysics and precision aerial construction. “We are proud to confirm this H125 order with Forest Helicopters, a legacy customer and l...