Quick Response Limits Damage in New Zealand Plant Fire

An effective fire-suppression system, coupled with prompt action by area firefighters helped contain a blaze that broke out earlier this year at a recently built Alsco Uniforms plant at Richmond, near Nelson, according to news reports. With help from the plant’s sprinkler system, firefighters quickly brought under control a fire that had started in a couple of carts of linen in the Estuary Place building. No machinery was damaged and the plant remained operational, Alsco group general manager Steve Barden said. Simon Lyford, spokesman for Fire and Emergency New Zealand ...