Instead, the club will install a smoke detector and alarm system in the building at a cost of about $40 a month. If the club had been forced to install the sprinklers, President Rich Nast said the ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - The fatal fire in Palolo on Monday is renewing calls for mandatory smoke detectors and sprinkler systems for new homes. Honolulu Fire Chief Manuel Neves said there ...

Officials credited a fire sprinkler and smoke detector with safeguarding a family and their house during an electrical fire in Rancho Santa Fe Thursday. Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District ...

This month’s reader questions focus on sprinkler alarms. As it turns out, there is a lot of confusion over which NFPA rule — 13 or 72 — applies. Why does my local fire inspector think the fire alarm ...

A sprinkler system employing automatic sprinklers attached to a piping system containing water and connected to a water supply so that water discharges immediately from sprinklers opened by heat from ...

Fig 1. Fires follow a progression from start to full involvement, with both temperature and smoke content rising rapidly once full combustion is underway. Fig 2. Traditional optical smoke detectors ...