A first in the PEX industry, Uponor’s AquaSAFE residential fire sprinkler system is now approved for use in exposed applications. Uponor’s listing to UL 1821, Thermoplastic Sprinkler Pipe and Fittings ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Fire Department teamed up with the NFSA to host its annual fire prevention open house, ...

The saying “Location, location, location!” takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to home safety. Eight Washington state municipalities now require that builders equip all new single-family and ...

Sprinkler system design and construction are paramount to fire suppression and safety in all industrial facilities. They have more significance within the waste, recycling and scrap metal industries ...

Maintaining healthy fire protection systems is not always top of mind for building owners or their designated facility managers – that is, until their system fails, costing them precious time, money ...

The type of sprinkler system (except deluge) typically depends on the environmental conditions in which the system will be used and the nature of the space being protected. Wet-Pipe Sprinkler System ...

Behind them, a kitchen fire breaks out, and the sprinkler system sprays water all over them, like they’re kissing in the rain. But that's not the way fire-sprinkler systems work. Dr. Patrick Smith, an ...

Investigators are looking into why a sprinkler system failed to activate during the massive fire that destroyed Medline’s ...

Fire officials said sprinkler systems were not operating during a five-alarm fire that destroyed a roughly 1 million-square-foot Medline medical supply facility in Tracy.

Fires in residential structures with sprinkler systems do so little damage, the Delaware State Fire Marshal’s Office doesn’t keep statistics on them. “Because if a sprinkler system goes off, a large, ...

MARIETTA, Ga. - All they wanted was a warning. Vicky Alexander is certain her brother would still be alive if she had known her apartment sprinkler system was broken. "I probably would have gotten the ...