Fire extinguishing concept in high-bay warehouse

The invention relates to a high-bay warehouse for placing containers into and taking them out of storage, having multiple container storage spaces that are arranged horizontally next to one another and vertically one above another, and storage aisles that are arranged between groups of rack bays and extend parallel to one another, in each of which storage aisles at least one storage and retrieval machine is movable back and forth and is designed to move the containers vertically and horizontally and to move them into and out of the rack bays, characterised in that at least one storage and retrieval machine, preferably each storage and retrieval machine is connected, within the high-bay warehouse, to a fire-extinguishing device. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for detecting and preferably combating fires in a high-bay warehouse according to the invention characterised in that the temperature and/or change in temperature of a container placed in storage within the rack bay, or the environment the