Seven Sprinkler Stats!

• Sprinklers operate once the temperature hits approximately 68ºC.
• The likelihood of a sprinkler operating accidentally is estimated at 16 million to one – you’ve more chance of winning the lottery!
• Firefighters often use 10 times more water from hoses to do the same job as a sprinkler. This increases considerably with larger buildings or commercial premises - in tackling the Windsor Castle fire, 7 million litres of water were used!
• Statistics show that widespread use of sprinklers could save up to 96% of the 5.6 billion litres of water used annually in the UK to fight large fires - three months supply of water for the entire population of a city the size of Leeds!
• Losses from fires in buildings protected with sprinklers are estimated to be only one tenth of those in unprotected buildings.
• More than 40 million sprinklers are fitted worldwide every year.
• In the UK there has never been a fire death in a fully sprinklered building. US Government employees on business only stay in sprinklered hotels because the Government will not otherwise pay their expenses.