Sprinklers required if an area without fire walls exceeds 12,000 square feet. The average supermarket, for example, is 46,755 square feet, according to the Food Marketing Institute. Business offices.

Fight over costs. New York builders estimate the addition of fire sprinklers to new homes would cost $20,000 to $30,000 based on a report published last year by Churchville, New York-based ...

Firemen use a fire hose to try and put out a house fire during a snowfall. A new website from the non-profit Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) – HomeFireSprinklerCanada.ca – seeks to help ...