Factory saved from Acetone blaze

In a recent incident, Acetone in the production area of a factory in west Hull caught fire. However, thanks to a recently installed a Fireray 5000 optical beam smoke detector from Fire Fighting Enterprises no one was injured and the building escaped intact.

The alarm signal was picked up by the 24-hour manned security lodge, who called the fire brigade. Ten fire engines from the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service arrived within 5 minutes and quickly subdued the blaze; all staff were evacuated without incident.

It is thought that the quick reaction to the fire starting is what saved the building, with the speed of the alarm and the firefighters' response minimising the scale and severity of the blaze.

The fire protection system installer for the building, Tim Allerston of Global EFP, said that they had recently upgraded the beam detectors from 15 year old ones, which had become unreliable and prone to false alarms and fault conditions. The new detectors quickly detected the fire and triggered the alarm - resulting in the building, and potentially lives, being saved.