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NFPA Electrical Inspector Member Section at Conference & Expo

Another June has come and gone, and now we’re on the backside of 2019! For those of us at NFPA who are involved the NFPA Conference and Expo and the annual technical session, July signifies our recovery from the biggest event of the year in fire,

Journal NOW: How the 2018 Merrimack Valley gas fires are an incident management success story

  The natural gas fires and explosions that swept through three communities in the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts in September 2018 struck quickly and without warning, inflicting an estimated $1 billion in damage and

Mike Rowe, known for having the dirtiest job in America, brings attention to the dirtiest secret of the fire service

  Affable, willing-to-take-on-anything TV host, writer, producer, and spokesman Mike Rowe tackles firefighter cancer in his popular reality web television series, Returning the Favor. In the 19 hours since the show aired on Facebook, 728,000

Inquiring minds want to know which NFPA Emergency Response and Responder Safety standards will be consolidated and when - here’s the plan as of today

      The standards above are slated to be consolidated into one overarching document in Phase 1 of the consolidation effort.   Two months ago, it was announced that the NFPA Standards Council approved a plan to consolidate

NFPA 1: How the Fire Code Mandates Annual Inspection of Fire Doors, #FireCodeFriday

The first part of this week’s post is written by Jen Sisco, Engineer in the NFPA Building and Life Safety Systems group and Staff Liaison to NFPA’s Fire Doors and Windows Technical Committee responsible for the development of NFPA 80 and NFPA

NFPA 1: How the Fire Code Mandates Annual Inspection of Fire Doors, #FireCodefridays

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Journal NOW: In the new NFPA Journal, a look at gas explosions, assembly occupancies, event safety, and much more

The July/August NFPA Journal, out now, includes coverage on everything from a catastrophic natural gas incident to steps for improving safety in escape rooms, a popular type of amusement that is growing worldwide.   In our cover story, “The

A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Impending Equipment Failure

How do you know if equipment is ready to fail? What are signs of impending failure? Who should know what the signs of impending failure are for a piece of equipment? NFPA 70E®,Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace® requires

Journal NOW: After Jim Beam fire, read NFPA Journal's 2018 feature on keeping distilleries safe from fire

Last week, a massive fire tore through a Jim Beam warehouse in Kentucky, destroying 45,000 barrels of the company's whiskey. The blaze continued for days as barrels of the flammable liquid were purposefully allowed to burn to avoid further

#TBT From The NFPA Archives: Don’t Lose a 5th on the 4th!

Happy Independence Day, America! Today we thought we would share one of NFPA’s public outreach posters from 40 years ago. Did you know that each 4th of July, thousands of people, most often children and teens, are injured while using