QUINCY, MA April 26, 2022 – In every community, home fires are a severe threat to residents as well as responding firefighters. While homes have been the central fire challenge for decades, today this ...

QUINCY, MA (May 13, 2021) – Fire departments and public safety advocates across North America will unite May 16-22 to participate in a digital campaign and conduct community outreach activities to ...

Fire sprinklers are now officially required in all nursing homes, according to the National Fire Protection Association. The NFPA’s oversight committee, the Standards Council, issued provisions that ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) are accepting nominations for their Bringing Safety Home Award, which recognizes outstanding efforts by a ...

QUINCY, Mass.—A proposal to exempt homes with just a fire extinguisher in the kitchen from an International Residential Code requirement that all new homes have fire sprinklers is tragically misguided ...

The new 2016 edition says existing AN storage facilities of non-combustible construction should be retrofitted with automatic fire sprinklers. The National Fire Protection Association recently made ...

March 23, 2015 — To further the life-saving impact of home fire sprinklers, the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Fire Sprinkler Initiative today announced the launch of a new grant ...

In January 2015, a massive fire in Edgewater, N.J., demonstrated that buildings with sprinkler systems are not always protected against fire. The blaze destroyed 240 residential apartments and ...

After 12 years with the same state fire code, Illinois Fire Marshal Larry Matkaitis says it's time for an update. And the one he's proposing is a big one: a first-ever requirement for fire sprinklers ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Animal Housing—the body that oversees development and revisions of the Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities Code ...

March 11, 2025 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) are accepting nominations for their Bringing Safety Home Award, which recognizes ...