Gösta Holmstedt reports that at 05:44 on Monday, 15th September an automatic alarm was sent from a shopping centre to the SOS Alarm centre in Västerås, 90km north-west of Stockholm.

The fire brigade arrived within ten minutes and found that some oily rags had self-ignited but that the fire had been put out by a single sprinkler. A few hours later the shopping centre opened as normal.

The Managing Director of the shopping centre was delighted that the sprinkler system had worked so well.