SPRINKLER systems will be installed in some bedsit properties following an horrific fire in which two Suffolk teenagers were killed, today's Evening Star exclusively reveals.
By Richard Cornwell
SPRINKLER systems will be installed in some bedsit properties following an horrific fire in which two Suffolk teenagers were killed, today's Evening Star exclusively reveals.
Details of the countywide project are to be unveiled soon as part of a new package of measures to improve fire safety at houses in multiple occupation.
Experts say if sprinklers had been installed at the house where Rob Giles, 18, and Will Stokes, 19, were living in Holland Road, Felixstowe, it is likely they would still be alive today.
The pair died in a blaze caused by either a candle or a faulty TV set. Smoke engulfed their top-floor room and the teenagers never woke up.
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