Saturday, May 17, 2008
You Can't Always Blame Missing Smoke Alarms
[ David Comstock ]
Two Georgia parents, Brenda Davis and Roosevelt Alexander, agreed to watch a neighbor's child, Nyrica Knox. However, Davis went on an errand and Alexander...
Principled Approach
By Karen Gardner Correspondent
Following a devastating fire in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, an editorial in the Lead Daily Call-Deadwood Pioneer Times read: Several weeks ago...
NFPA: Arson Fires Reach Historic Low
A new report from the National Fire Protection Association released in March dispels the myth that arson is the fastest-growing crime in America. To the...
7% of Calls in 2003 Were for Fires
National Fire Protection Association
The percentage of calls to U.S. fire departments for actual fires decreased in 2003, while EMS and false alarms increased, according to a report by the NFPA....
Arson Fires Reach Historic Low
Pat West
Arson fires in 2003 reached the lowest number since the National Fire Protection Association began gathering data on them, according to an NFPA report released this week. ...
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...
Non-Working Alarms in 70% of Home Fires
About 70% of all home-fire fatalities occur in houses with no working smoke alarms, according to a November 2004 National Fire Protection Association...
Neighborhood Watch
Community education is more a matter of mobilizing and facilitating than instructive, and collaborative learning is an effective -- if more involved, intimate and messy -- way to do it....
San Diego Residents Raise Their Fire-Smart IQ
The City of San Diego Water Department and the city's Natural History Museum are working in partnership with wildland fire organizations to help residents...
Citizens Brigade
The Fire Corps is the result of a partnership between the International Association of Fire Chiefs' Volunteer and Combination Officers Section, the International...
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,...
Fire Safety Takes Stage at Disney's Epcot
A more than 4,000-square-foot interactive fire safety educational attraction designed by Walt Disney Imagineering in cooperation with Liberty Mutual's...
NFPA: People Fear Tornadoes Over Fires
A new survey the National Fire Protection Association released during Fire Prevention Week in October showed Americans underestimate their risk of fire....
USFA Releases 50-Plus Pub-Ed Materials
Free fire prevention materials directed toward people over the age of 50, one of the groups most vulnerable to fire, are available from the U.S. Fire...
'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
Fire Prevention Week Survey: Americans Underestimate Fire Risk
National Fire Protection Association
Cooking Causes 73% of Dorm Fires
Statisticians with the National Fire Incident Reporting System at the U.S. Fire Administration said the most recent data collected by NFIRS reflects a...
NFPA: Candle Fires Up 300% Since 1990
Bay State House Tackles Nightclub Fires
On Aug. 17, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law the state's most far-reaching fire safety legislation since the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942,...
Room & Board
By Tom Horton
The fastest-growing population sector in the United States is that of people between the ages of 65 and 74 years old. This group is projected to grow...
Dj Vu All Over Again
As the baseball season draws to a close with the World Series, it seems appropriate to place the events of August in the context of baseball. In the view...
Child's Play
By Carolyn Kourofsky with Robert E. Cole Ph.D., and Robert Crandall
Which of the following statements about juvenile fire-setting are true? Threats of punishment are effective in stopping fire misuse. A child who acts...
High Mortality
Prof. Domingos Xavier Viegas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Forest fires that occurred in Portugal in the summer of 2003 were the most serious of the country's history in terms of burned area, intensity and human...
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