Have a look at the West Midlands Arson Task Force document called Keep your school in business (your local fire authority may have something similar). Whilst is is mainly about fire risk assessment you may find some useful info about arson prevention, stats etc there. See link below.... http://www.wmfs.net/atf/kysib.jsp

Denmark even.

I can remember a case being cited during my fire cert regarding a primary school fire. Heavy fire damage to the building because the teachers didn't know how to use the extinguishers, apparently some were badly bent and buckled where someone had tried to activate them by banging them on the ground, others had the handles bent over where someone had tried to squeeze them without removing the pin. I'm afraid I can't remember anymore detail than that.

Hi Betta, Not sure if you're after info on minor issues that were dealt with without injury or damage, but I've recent experience of a number of them. I've looked at small fires in three school kitchens recently. In two of the cases the people in charge had recently been on awareness / prevention courses and acted swiftly, using the correct equipment in the correct way to extinguish the fires. Both commented on the confidence the training had given them to take control and make the right decision (including feeling competent to decide whether or not to tackle the fire). The other common issue was refreshing people's awareness of sounding the fire alarms in even minor, apparently controllable, cases such as these. The lessons from all these have been included in updated awareness training. Good luck!

I believe that was the cause of the heavy denting, they didn't know that the current extinguishers weren't operated like that anymore.

Thanks Ron.