The provisions and requirements for fire sprinkler systems within buildings have been mandated within codes and standards since the late 1800s. The inclusion of these systems fit within our core ...

During the winter months, fire sprinkler systems are at risk of failure due to cold weather extremes. Preparation must be made by inspecting the system to prevent frozen pipes, as the lack of proper ...

It’s 3:30 a.m., and you have been dispatched to a report of a multifamily structure fire in your engine company’s first-due response area. Dispatch is reporting a fire has been called in on the fourth ...

Sterling's Shepherd Premier Senior Living, an assisted living and memory care center, was evacuated Tuesday after a broken ...

Fire officials said bitterly cold weather Friday morning made it more difficult to fight a fire inside the Nashua Country ...

Quick intervention by fire crews and the function of the sprinkler system successfully contained the fire that occurred in a ...

Many people think they have an idea of how fire sprinklers work because of how the systems have been portrayed in movies and television shows. Someone pulls the fire alarm, a lighter is held up to a ...

Everybody has the thought, ‘Well, it’s a fire station. You don’t need a sprinkler system.’ But you actually do,” Fire Chief Brian Lajoie said.

The Canton Fire Department said a dryer fire at St. Lawrence University was stopped from spreading thanks to a properly ...

Residents at Avonlea Cottage in Sterling were evacuated after a broken sprinkler head damaged wiring and light fixtures in the building yesterday, according to a news release from the Sterling Fire ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Less than two weeks after one person was killed and nine others were injured in a massive fire that spread to 10 floors of a high-rise in Kenwood, CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey is ...