Vaughan Citizen

Vaughans fire chief is calling for sprinkler systems to be installed in all new homes after a spate of devastating blazes in the city.

I think the province should move forward and enact legislation to make them mandatory in all new construction of residential homes, Vaughan fire chief Larry Bentley said Thursday morning, following a fire on Rainbow Drive in Woodbridge. They are designed to control a fire until we arrive and it can help stop a lot of property damage and save lives.

Mr. Bentley said local firefighters have been called to seven house fires in the past 10 days, including at least one total loss", the damages of which are estimated to be about $700,000.

He said if that home had been equipped with a fire-suppressant sprinkler system the damage would have been minimal.

Requiring existing homes to be equipped with sprinkler systems would be costly for homeowners, the fire chief said, but making it mandatory for builders to install them when constructing new homes would be a good first step.

At least one local home builder, Townwood Homes, has stepped up and agreed to outfit 136 townhomes and six semi-detached homes with sprinkler systems in its Mackenzie Ridge Terraces development on Major Mackenzie Drive, near Dufferin Street.

Asked if the province is considering enacting such legislation, a spokesperson for the Municipal Affairs and Housing Ministry responded in an email that the "government takes the safety of Ontarians seriously".

The building code addresses fire safety in a number of ways and its requirements are the strongest in Canada," wrote May Nazar, senior media relations coordinator. "The Building code makes use of a combination of the following fire safety principles: detection, warning, containment, suppression (e.g., sprinklers) and exiting.

Ms Nazar also noted that since 2010, the building code has required that large residential buildings, greater than three storeys, be constructed with sprinklers.

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A sprinkler system and efficient firefighters were able to limit damage at a popular Lake Oswego restaurant early Tuesday morning.

La Provence Restaurant, at 16350 Boones Ferry Road, experienced an estimated $25,000 in damage from a blaze that occurred in the middle of the night, and it will most likely be closed for at least a week. But things could have been far worse. One single sprinkler head kept the fire in check until firefighters were able to completely extinguish it.

"Without this sprinkler system, the fire damage would have been way worse than the water damage it did," said Lake Oswego Fire Marshal Gert Zoutendijk.

At 3:15 a.m. Lake Oswego firefighters were alerted to a fire alarm at La Provence. As soon as the first truck, Truck 211 from the Jean Road fire station, arrived on the scene it was noticed that smoke was coming from the roof, so more trucks were immediately requested.

While more fire units were en route, the crew of Truck 211 evaluated the situation and found that the restaurant was charged with smoke. The firefighters came up with a plan to attack the fire. When they went inside, it took them 20 minutes to locate the source of the smoke, which was a fire inside a wall space next to the kitchen.

The Lake Oswego Fire Department was assisted by the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue.

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Trelleborg will feature a suite of topsides solutions in Booth 923 at the event in the Moody Gardens Hotel & Convention center starting Feb. 4 and going through Feb. 6.

As our industry continues to push the limits of subsea exploration, the sharing of knowledge and collective experiences becomes even more important for improving quality, safety, and economics across the board, said Doug Marti, Trelleborg Offshore & Construction market development manager. As such, Topsides, Platforms & Hulls provides the ideal opportunity for us to share our industry leading knowledge and engineering expertise, with those than can benefit from it the most in these challenging times. We are looking forward to giving visitors a first-hand look at some of our innovative solutions.

On Trelleborgs center stage will be its Elastopipe alternative to carbon steel deluge systems. Developed in Norway, Trelleborg says the synthetic rubber system can withstand jet fires with a heat flux of 390kW/m2, temperatures above +2,552F/+1,400C and flame speeds that exceed the speed of sound.

It also meets the USCGs approval for fire endurance standard of Level 3 (L3) and Level 3 wet/dry (L3 W/D).

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