Apr 25, 2009

Northampton, MA Fire Disaster Leaves 21 Residents Displaced

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By Scott McDonnell – WSHM-TV The family that lived in the unit where the fire started at Meadowbrook Apartments in Northampton told us how it happened, and the fire chief explained why it grew out of control. Residents of the [...]

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Nov 26, 2008

Firefighters Back Anne Arundel, MD Residential Fire Sprinkler Bill

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By Jason Flanagan – Baltimore Examiner Firefighters from throughout the metropolitan region converged in Anne Arundel to support legislation requiring sprinklers installed in houses there, a bill home builders have openly opposed. “We are urging Anne Arundel to be the [...]

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Aug 25, 2008

Fire Sprinkler Safety in Homes – Home Builder Perspective

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By Marty Hope – Calgary Herald It was the last session of a four-day conference in Las Vegas on fire safety and Murray Pound gambled that maybe, just maybe, it might be one he should attend. He had no idea [...]

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Aug 22, 2008

County Calls for Tougher Codes after Conshohocken Apartment Fire

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By MARGARET GIBBONS – The Phoenix NORRISTOWN — The Montgomery County commissioners want tougher fire protection measures incorporated into municipal building and fire codes in the wake of last week’s catastrophic blaze that destroyed two of the four occupied apartment [...]

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Jul 29, 2008

New Building Codes for Safety Could Present a Hurdle for Redevelopment

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By Jeff Mores – Northwest Arkansas’ News BENTONVILLE – Normally, firefighters are the only people who get excited about indoor sprinkler systems. As Aug. 1 – the day the updated Arkansas Fire Prevention Code goes into effect – approaches, sprinklers [...]

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Jul 19, 2008

Fire Sprinkler Legislation Offering by Eldridge in MA

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By Lynne Klaft – Worcester Telegram LUNENBURG— Can sprinkler alarm systems save lives? Ask any firefighter and the unequivocal answer is yes. State Rep. James B. Eldridge, D-Acton, plans to file a bill that will require automatic sprinkler systems in [...]

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Jul 18, 2008

Fire Sprinkler Mandate will go to Superior Court – Avondale, AZ

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By Howard Fischer – AZ Central.com Avondale voters made it clear three years ago they did not like a new city ordinance that required sprinklers in all new houses when they voted down a ballot measure requiring them. Now, a [...]

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Jul 17, 2008

Small Fire Ignites in Durango, CO Condo

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By Shane Benjamin – Durango Herald A sprinkler system may have saved a woman’s condo Monday on Main Avenue. Durango Fire Marshal Tom Kaufman shows the water sprinkler head that deterred a fire that started in a condominium bathroom at [...]

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Jul 03, 2008

Fire Rules Few for Beach Houses

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By Martha Quillin and Jerry Allegood – Raleigh News & Observer OCEAN ISLE BEACH – Bigger beach houses all along the North Carolina coast are packing people into places where sprinklers and other fire safety measures are not required, state [...]

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Jun 30, 2008

Burien, WA 3 Dead, 5 Injured, 31 Homeless in Fire

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By Elizabeth Rhodes – Seattle Times Burien’s worst residential fire in nearly two decades claimed three lives, injured five other people and left 31 homeless when two adjoining apartment buildings burned early this morning. The cause of the blaze, which [...]

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