Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Plans Look to Leave No Wheelchair Behind
By Douglas Page
Say your sister has severe rheumatoid arthritis and must use a wheel chair. Say there's a bomb threat at her office on the third floor of the Civic Center...
Meetings Net Nightclub, Senior Strategies
The International Association of Fire Chiefs has released reports offering national strategies to improve two especially deadly life-safety problems in...
Suspicious Origin Tops Smoking as Fire Cause
Analysts with the U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Data Center say the most recent data collected by the National Fire Incident Reporting System...
San Diego Exhibit, Handout Focus on Fires
By Pat West, Senior Editor
IAFC Reports Offer National Strategies
USFA Reports on Holiday Fires
Department of Homeland Security
Report on Fires in the U.S. Available
Department of Homeland Security
Sorry, Wrong Number
By Lori Buck
There currently are more cellular phones in the world than landlines, and the gap between the two is increasing every day. Cell phones offer a quick,...
NFPA: 70% of Fire Deaths in Homes With no Alarms
National Fire Protection Association
'Where's the Fire' Opens at Epcot Center
Department of Homeland Security
Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla., recently opened a 4,000-plus square foot fire safety exhibit designed by Walt Disney Imagineering in cooperation with Liberty Mutual's fire safety specialists and the U.S. Fire Administration....
Call for Applications: Rolf Jensen Public Education Award
Chicago Launches High-Rise Life-Safety Program
Fire Prevention Week Survey: Americans Underestimate Fire Risk
National Fire Protection Association
USFA Releases Free '50-Plus' Fire Safety Campaign Materials
NFPA: Candle Fires Up 300% Since 1990
ICC, SFPE Create New Performance-Based Design Guide
Fireman's Fund Awards Grants, Thermal Imaging to Metro Atlanta
NFPA, NPGA, and PERC Release Fire Safety Analysis Manual
Blind Loyalty
By Vina Drennan
Soldiers are trained to obey orders: Snap to attention, salute smartly and state, Yes, Sir. Nowhere in the job description does questioning authority...
Leading Causes of Nightclub, Bar Fires
The February 2003 Station Nightclub Fire in West Warwick, R.I., which killed 100 people, galvanized fire marshals and inspectors to revisit nightclubs...
Art of Persuasion is More of a Science
[ Mike Chiaramonte ]
Once again, it's time to present the annual fire department budget to the city council. The chief put together a budget package and was ready to present...
Fire Safety Campaign to Reach Low-Literacy Adults
IAFF, IAFC Join Coalition Urging Ban on Consumer Fireworks
National Fire Protection Association
FEMA Announces $2 Million for Fire Prevention Grants
Department of Homeland Security
New National Fire Safety Campaign Launched
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