New NFPA Journal column: Tragedy in upstate New York underscores the need for home fire sprinklers,

Last May near Syracuse, New York, a two-year old girl died in a home fire while her mother was outside watching her four-year old son play with neighborhood kids. “If I was standing right in front of my house when a fire broke out, I would have thought I could get my child out safely. But that was before I came to work at NFPA,” writes Lorraine Carli, vice president of Outreach and Advocacy for NFPA, in her recent column in the July/August issue of NFPA Journal. The fire spread rapidly because, although the home was built in 2013, four...