Everything was destroyed in the unsprinklered room, but there was very little damage in the
sprinklered room.
"Obviously, the Fire Service would like to see every building fully
sprinklered,'' said Jennifer Mieth, spokeswoman for the state Department of Fire Services.
CMS used the most recent survey data to establish its June 2013 list of facilities that are "partially
sprinklered" or "not sprinldered." Nearly every state in the country has at least one facility that is not in complete compliance.
Attention was focussed on the wide category of
sprinklered conventional buildings that make up the largest part of the
sprinklered environment.
The NFPA adds that there is no record of a fatality in a fully
sprinklered building outside the point of fire origin; however, in a purely economic comparison, this is not a complete picture--the total costs of fitting and the costs arising from non-fire triggered release must be factored.
A part of this data will be related to the behaviour of the components of the sprinkler system (demand failures), whereas some data will reflect such processes as sprinkler maintenance and random occurrence of fires in the course of exploiting a
sprinklered building (room).
According to the report, the cost of installing residential fire sprinkler systems to the home builder averaged $1.61 per
sprinklered square foot.
They probably don't look at whether the building is
sprinklered or not.
Based on a 10-year time frame for implementation, CMS estimates that the regulation would affect 2,462 nursing homes--1,947 that are partially
sprinklered and 515 without any sprinklers.
There has never been a fire death in a fully
sprinklered building in the UK."