ROCKTON (WREX) -- The Chemtool plant is still smoldering as the fire enters its fifth day, but a November inspection obtained by 13 Investigates shows the plant was not fully covered by a sprinkler ...

While it may be considered by some as a tedious and necessary evil, fire protection systems require and deserve a specific amount of inspection, testing and maintenance regimens to help ensure ...

The inspection process for fire sprinklers in Massachusetts relies on a haphazard honor system that can fail the very people it’s meant to protect. A MassLive investigation following the July fatal ...

Five days before a fatal blaze ripped through Gabriel House, a fire safety contractor alerted the building owner his sprinkler system had not undergone the state-mandated five-year inspection, ...

FALL RIVER — Inspectors with the Fall River Fire Department discovered four residential buildings had been using fire sprinkler heads that were recalled due to a potential defect 24 years ago.