B8 - Friday, July 13, 1934 - North Shore News

SPRINKLERS IN THE HOME
Savings on insurance bill

and fire protection, too

NEW RESIDENTIAL sprinkler systems will not
only allow homeowners more window space in
their new dwellings, but could also result in
reduced house insurance rates.

Chief Art Ridley of the
West Vancouver. Fire
department says the building
code permits the construc- with several models currently
tion of added window space, available which blend in with
as long as proper sprinkler the decors of modern homes.
systems are installed. And he There are even models which
says the new systems are come equipped with covering
slowly gaining popularity in plates, which melt off at

the North Shore community. lower temperatures than are
According to a report by needed to activate the actual

the department’s Capt. sprinkler systems.

Gerry Harrington, there The new residential

were 127 fires in West Van- models are also five times

couver dunng 1983, with faster in reacting than the
damages amounting to standard commercial
$700,870. Residential fires = sprinklers.
accounted for 64 of those As for costs, Harrington
with a total of $597,575 in Says in his report that
damages. - sprinkler system installation
Harrington says there are costs range from 60 cents to
currently four West Van- = $1! per square foot. That cost
couver residences equipped is offset to a degree by the
with sprinklers conforming protection against fire of-
to the National Fire Protec- fered by the systems and
tion Association (NFPA) resulting savings on = in-
13D, which is the standard surance premiums.
for such systems in one and Harmnngton adds that after
two family dwellings. extensive study of fire
He adds there is also. statistics throughout B.C.
another home equipped with and Canada, as well as in-
sprinklers on an exterior wall = vestigating the new com-
as a result of a fire in _ bustible materials constantly
August, 1981. being used by the construc-
The first house was uon industry, that better fire
destroyed after a fire from a protection is needed in West
neighboring home spread to Vancouver and sees residen-

the second dwelling. tial sprinkler systems as one MEWS phuto tan Suaith
The sprinkler systems are of the ways of achieving WEST VANCOUVER Fire chiefArt Ridley shows off safety — sprinkling systems can stop fire and save insaraece premio
continually being updated, that. dollars.

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