PLACENTIA AND BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA— A fire suppression system helped contain a fire at Sunrise Catering in Sacremento last month, once again driving home the point that fire suppression systems can prevent costly damage.

“Many restaurants and catering services today are equipped with fire suppression systems because they are required by law,” said Massoud Farazandeh, a fire suppression system professional and general manager of Nationwide Fire Protection Corp., a Placentia and Bay Area fire protection company. “We are using incidents such as the Sunrise Catering fire to appeal to older restaurants and catering services who have been grandfathered in and lack fire suppression systems that although not required by law, we strongly recommend that they be added.” (more…)

BAY AREA, LOS ANGELES AND PLACENTIA, CALIFORNIA— Nationwide Fire Protection Corp., a Placentia and Bay Area fire sprinkler company, celebrates the first anniversary of its Placentia satellite location this month.

Nationwide Fire Protection and its affiliate, American Professional Services (APS-Hoods) opened the facility in August 2009 to better meet the increase in calls for Bay Area fire protection work, said NFP’s general manager, Massoud Farazandeh, a fire protection engineer.

Nationwide’s company headquarters are located in Denver, Colorado, and the company has serviced Bay Area, CA fire system accounts from there since the company began in 1989. (more…)