Heliopolis Sheraton Hotel Fire

On February 28, yet another hotel fire turned into tragedy: A fire in the Heliopolis Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, left 17 dead and approximately 70 injured when an outdoor tent next to the hotel was ignited by sparks from a clay bread oven. The uncontrolled flames spread quickly to the unsprinklered hotel.

Soon after the fire the hotel owners wanted to renovate the areas that only had smoke damage, such as the banquet area, the main kitchen, the conference areas and the night club.

In 1994 the project for the complete building of this hotel started and H.F Fire was selected to provide the complete analog addressable system with overall voice evacuation and emergency telephones. The system comprises of (Twenty two) 22 loops with a total of one thousand and seven hundred (1700) analog points. This system has a comprehensive 19 inch color graphics central command system with touch screen capability.
The hotel is fully covered by a sprinkler system ,monitored by the fire alarm panel that also interface with the building management and elevators controls.