'In a Flash' in new NFPA Journal goes behind the story of the first DiNenno Prize winner, the affordable home smoke alarm

Read the story of how the affordable home smoke alarm came to be and why this innovation was chosen to receive the inaugural Philip J. DiNenno Prize and the $50,000 prize in the “In a Flash” section of the July/August issue of NFPA Journal. Lyman Blackwell was presented the prize at the 2015 NFPA Conference and Expo this past June in Chicago for his key technological role in the alarm’s development. The DiNenno Prize, which aims to be akin to “the Noble Prize” of fire and life safety, is named after the late Philip DiNenno, the highly regarded former CEO...