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Nest and the Leary Firefighters Foundation team up to award two $25K grants to fire departments in need

Nest (maker of the Nest Protect Smoke and CO Alarm) and the Leary Firefighters Foundation have teamed up for the second year to award two $25,000 grants for new technology and equipment to fire departments in need. To qualify for the grant,

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CMS ruling prompts the development of a new certification for health care facility managers

Last September, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its final ruling on emergency preparedness. This ruling includes a requirement that hospitals, critical access hospitals, and long term care facilities, evaluate their

Mark your calendars! NFPA Conference & Expo to be held in Boston, June 4-7, 2017

  Mark your calendars! NFPA's 2017 Conference & Expo is less than two months away, and it's expected to be the biggest one yet. This year's event will be held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, June 4-7. Featuring 150

NFPA 70E Series: Normal operation and you

  Is it normal operation to throw the switch of a circuit breaker? What about opening an access panel to get to that breaker? How about racking out a breaker? Or replacing a light bulb? The manufacturer probably states that the switch on the breaker

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#TBT From the Archives: Waco Cotton Palace Fire, April 8, 1919

Ruins of Waco Cotton Palace after fire, showing failure of unprotected steel trusses.   On April 8, 1919 a fire destroyed the Waco Cotton Palace in Taco, TX. The fire last four hours and forty-five minutes.   From the NFPA Quarterly v. 13, no.

#101Wednesdays: Proposed requirements for mass notification systems in NFPA 101

The revision cycle for the upcoming 2018 edition of NFPA 101 is nearly complete. That means it's handbook writing season, and I spend just about every minute of the workday writing and revising commentary for the Life Safety Code Handbook. It also means

At least six dead in Portugal fireworks factory fire

(photo courtesy of The Sun)   Reuters reports that a huge explosion ripped through a fireworks factory in Northern Portugal on Tuesday, killing six people including the factory owner. At least four of the deceased were from the same family; two

Home fire the cause of town's first firefighter line-of-duty death

NFPA opens registration for FEMA funded HIZ training in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 21-22

Another high-rise fire in Dubai

   photo courtesy of The Daily Mail/AP   Fire broke out in a high-rise building in Dubai yesterday, generating a thick blanket of black smoke across the skyline. The 60-story Fountain Views complex, being built just a stone's