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Recent home fire deaths exemplify outcome of banning fire sprinkler requirements in new homes

NFPA takes several steps to ensure food truck safety, including availability of comprehensive, updated fact sheet

  As the popularity of food trucks continues, so do concerns around the potential for fires and related hazards. NFPA has taken several steps in response to these issues, including the development of an updated food truck fact sheet, which maps out

Toddler death prompts safety advocates to underscore home fire sprinklers

NFPA 1: Standardized Fire Service Elevator Keys, #FireCodefridays

Its the last day of March, and some of New England is forecast to get up to 8" of snow this weekend (luckily not where I live!) so maybe its best if I first reference this post about clearance around fire hydrants.  Who knew we would be thinking

#TBT From the NFPA Archives: Remembering Frances Perkins

  Today we wish to take the time to remember one of the great pioneers for Life Safety Advocacy.   After witnessing the tragedy that occurred at the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins took up the cause of safety

#101Wednesdays: Allegedly neglected fire protection systems contribute to another Oakland tragedy

I’m back this week with another installment of #101Wednesdays after spending last week in Las Vegas teaching NFPA’s Life Safety Code Essentials seminar. The news of another multiple-fatality fire in Oakland, CA that greeted me at work Monday

Eye-catching sprinkler demo video featured in latest edition of NFPA's Fire Sprinkler Initiative newsletter

Got confined spaces? Register for free webinar for overview of NFPA 350 & how it can be used in your confined space program

Got confined space? If so, please join me for a free one-hour webinar on NFPA 350, Guide for Safe Confined Space entry and Work on March 29th at 2 PM (EDT)  sponsored by OHS online. The webinar will provide an overview of how NFPA 350 can

Got confined spaces?

If so, please join me for a free one-hour webinar on NFPA 350, Guide for Safe Confined Space entry and Work on March 29th at 2 PM (EDT)  sponsored by OHS online. The webinar will provide an overview of how NFPA 350 can be used to

New England Division of IAFC gathers at NFPA headquarters

  Close to 100 fire chiefs attended the 50th Annual Meeting of the New England Division of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (NEDIAFC) at NFPA’s conference center in Quincy, Massachusetts this week. Top fire leaders hailed from six