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Research Foundation study developed a prototype tool to measure environmental and economic impact of a fire event

NFPA recently hosted a workshop on economic decision making in fire and electrical safety.  One of the studies highlighted during the presentations was a study completed by the Research Foundation on "Development of an Environmental and Economic

National Volunteer Fire Council announces first recipients in 2016 Globe Gear giveaway

Globe, DuPont Protection Technologies (DuPont), and NVFC partnered together for the fifth year in a row, to provide new, state-of-the-art turnout gear to fire departments in need. This year, a total of 13 departments will receive four sets of gear each.

Four decades since release of landmark "America Burning" report, has the country addressed its home fire problem?

Economic decision-making in fire and electrical safety

On August 17th a diverse group of fire service, building regulatory and research professionals met at NFPA to try to answer a question. In a world where decisions are increasingly being driven by dollars and cents, how do we demonstrate the value of fire

New Jersey man arranges to have a fire truck donated and flown to Nicaragua

File this under awesome. It fits the bill in a lot of ways.   Earlier this week a 1982 Mack 1250 GPM pumper fire truck began an awe-inspiring 3,700 mile trek from Princeton, New Jersey to Managua, Nicaragua.   The journey began with the

NFPA Responder Forum 2016: Gathering the next generation of fire service innovators

Last year, NFPA’s leadership team decided to establish a first-of-its-kind program that brings together forward-thinkers from the fire service to proactively address emerging issues and dig deeper on new technology. In October, the collective

NFPA 1: Refueling rail cars and fire department service delivery concurrency evaluation, #FireCodefridays

What does refueling railroad cars and a fire department service delivery concurrency evaluation have in common?   These are the topics of two technical advisory questions I received this week.  Did you know that NFPA members as well as

#TBT from the NFPA Archives: the Atlanta conflagration, 1908

From the NFPA Quarterly v. 2, no. 1, 1908 "On Friday, May 8, 1908, Atlanta was visited by the worst conflagration in its history, excepting of course its destruction by fire during  the Civil War in 1864.  The monetary loss will amount to

NFPA Standards Council issues decisions on four Annual 2016 documents: NFPA 25, NFPA 58, NFPA 70, and NFPA 75

The NFPA Standards Council acted on the issuance of documents in the Annual 2016 revision cycle and considered several appeals at its August 3-4, 2016 meeting.   The final decisions have been issued by the Council on the following four documents:

NFPA working to provide change indicators on codes and standards

We have received feedback regarding the omission of “change indicators” in our codes and standards (such as vertical rules, bullets, or shading, which identify changes between editions), a feature that was previously available but is not