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Journal NOW: Read NFPA Journal's coverage of the Hawaii volcanic eruptions as situation becomes more dire

Getty Images Last week, nearly two dozen people were injured when what was described as "a lava bomb" collided with a tour boat in Hawaii. Lava flowing into the ocean exploded, sending large, heavy chunks of hot rock into the air, some of which crashed

Plan, train, and communicate: the building blocks of effective pre-incident planning

Imagine you're the owner of an industrial facility in your community. You run a clean shop, your employees are happy, and in all of your years of business operations, you've never once had a fire or any kind of emergency incident. But as we all know,

NFPA hires new public education leader to continue and expand global fire and life safety awareness programs

NFPA appointed Andrea Vastis as senior director of Public Education, responsible for overseeing NFPA’s well-respected home fire education and wildfire programs.   Vastis joins us from CVS Health, where she oversaw product development and

What is NFPA's stance on barricade type products on fire doors in egress and non-egress openings?

NFPA hosted the Building Safety and Security Workshop on May 10-11, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders to help prioritize the next layers of “security safety” to be written into codes, planning documents, and related outreach

NFPA 70E® electrical safety training goes tropical in Maui

Of all the new and exciting things going on at NFPA recently, one of the things that has me most excited is the new types of training being developed and the new places training is being held. With a background in the training world prior to coming on

Greece faces wildfire and tragic loss

Cover story for July/August NFPA Journal addresses system commissioning and testing challenges in giant assembly spaces

The casino resorts of Macau, in China, are among the world’s largest assembly spaces: more than 10 million square feet, in some cases.   Those facilities include hundreds of zones and tens of thousands of safety devices such as fire alarms,

Does your department have a handle on ESS and solar emergency response procedures, pre-planning, safety gaps, ventilation, and more?

Nine-fold. That’s how great the increase was in residential battery energy storage system (ESS) installations from Q1 2017 to Q1 2018, according to PV Magazine. Homeowners are not the only ones going gaga over green technology. State officials and

NFPA’s Russ Sanders takes home IFSTA’s highest honor

NFPA Regional Director Russ Sanders was honored with the 2018 Everett Hudiburg Award by the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA) Executive Board. The prestigious award recognizes an individual who has made significant

Has NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, Made a Difference in Health Care Fire Safety?

  Michael Crowley, Vice President of Development and healthcare practice leader for Jensen Hughes, and 38 year NFPA member, presented this popular topic to a packed room at the 2018 NFPA Conference & Expo in Las Vegas last month. Crowley is a