April 2011 - Students from Bridgewater (MA) State University gathered with members of their local community to watch the Bridgewater Fire Department demonstrate the power of residential fire sprinklers. The side by side demonstration featured two mock dorm rooms set ablaze -  one outfitted with sprinklers and another without.

October 2010 -- A small spark in a typical American home can grow into a roaring inferno in just minutes. To underscore this point, NFPA hosted a side-by-side test burn in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The event demonstrated how quickly flashover can occur and how home fire sprinklers can give you and your family time to evacuate. This home fire sprinklers demonstration kicked off he beginning of NFPA's new "Faces of Fire" campaign.

 
June 2009 -- Another side-by-side room display set up at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago for the 2009 NFPA Conference & Expo. The side-by-side burn demonstrates the effects of a fire in two identical rooms, one with sprinklers and one without.

 
May 2009 -- A side-by-side room display set up at the Plymouth Massachusetts Fire Department. Sprinklers had been installed in only one of the rooms. Both rooms were set on fire. Home fire sprinklers are designed to activate when a certain degree of heat increase is reached, so as the temperature in the display went up, the sprinklers went off. As seen in this demonstration, the fire in the sprinklered room was controlled quickly by overhead sprinklers. In contrast, the fire in the room without sprinklers burned out of control until the fire department put out the fire.

Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition spokesperson Ron Hazelton demonstrates the dramatic difference between two fires, one in a room protected with a single fire sprinkler, the other without a fire sprinkler. Deadly flashover occurs in the room without fire sprinklers in less than 2 minutes. In the other room, the fire sprinkler activates in less than 20 seconds, controlling and putting out the fire. Home fire sprinklers save lives.