1. Campaigns / Other Fire Prevention Efforts
2. Campus Fire Safety
3. Inspections/Code enforcement
4. Smoke Alarms
5. Sprinklers
6. Wildland Fire Safety
7. Other Fire Safety News
8. Smoke Alarm Saves
9. Sprinkler Saves
10. International News

Links to Fire Prevention-related news articles – Updated 12/5/2011

Campaigns/ Other Fire Prevention Activities

1. Delta Township Fire Department serves drive-thru breakfast in name of safety
2. Red-lighted wreaths to advocate fire safety during holidays - Flanked by a Christmas wreath bearing 25 red bulbs, Quincy Fire Dept. Chief Joe Henning kicks off the department’s “Keep the Wreath Red” program during a press conference Monday morning at Station No. 5 in Quincy.
3. Preschool kids get important lesson – Coinciding with the school’s fire prevention week, the hour-long presentation Nov. 14 by engineer Gilbert Romero and firefighters Quntan Garcia and Tayler Delgado included a hands-on demonstration of the Chumash fire engine equipment and fire safety …
4. Cape Girardeau’s police and fire departments now have public safety blog Fire marshal Brian Shaffer said the department will use the blog as a way to get the word out about fire safety, especially during the holiday season. “We want to pass along information on proper use of extension cords and candles in the home during
5. Utility gives away smoke alarms
6. Student goes from drawing a fire truck to riding on one – Johnson Elementary School first-grader Chloe Wright recently got to ride home from school on a fire truck as part of her award for winning the Franklin Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Week poster contest
7. Officials push heating safety – According to the State’s Fire Marshal’s Office, 20 percent of the structures that caught on fire in 2010 in Texas didn’t have a detector, and 65 percent of fire fatalities were inside a home. Heating is the second highest cause of residential indoor …
8. Home heating safety tips offered by fire marshal – State Fire Marshal William E. Barnard recently provided Marylanders with life- and home-saving heating safety tips. “Elements of home heating continue to be a significant factor in home fires in Maryland,” according to the fire marshal. …
9. Fire Safety Campaigns Begins Today; Fire Damages Home
10. High-rise tenants here were given a lesson in fire safety
11. Santa Visits Crescent Volunteer Fire Department
12. Mural teaches fire safety

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Campus Fire Safety

1. Fire safety in educational facilities
2. Fire Safety Talk Sparks Memories of Seton Hall –  Fire South Orange Fire Chief visits Caldwell College to share knowledge of fire prevention and safety. South Orange Fire Chief Jeff Markey addresses Caldwell College students. SM Kent When Caldwell Fire Chief Anthony Grenci was asked recently to talk to the …

 

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Inspections / Code enforcement

1. Fire inspector has burning desire to teach – “Last fall, the city adopted the International Fire Code ; a lot of folks aren’t aware of the new code. Inspections can now be required where they weren’t previously,” Tofano said. “The new code is much more detailed.” Tofano is a team player in the …
2. NHTSA launches safety investigation following Chevrolet Volt battery fires
3. Fire Codes Push Live Tree For Kan. Gov. Outside –  Brownback said that once he learned of the fire-code issue about a month ago, he worked with tree growers on an alternative to displaying one in Cedar Crest. “I think this will work better,” he said. “It’s a beautiful tree. It celebrates the season and …
4. In wake of recent blaze firefighters urge code enforcement to keep students safe –  There have been seven structure fires in Durham this year alone. Two of those fires were sprinkler saves where the sprinkler system was able to put the fire out before it hurt anyone. Landry said they usually have about one major fire a year. …
5. Firefighters express safety concerns over vacant properties

 

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Smoke Alarms

1. Chief O’Donnell cautions against holiday fire risks – O’Donnell’s says his best advice is to equip every home with a functioning smoke alarm . “Our biggest push is smoke alarms,” O’Donnell says. “That’s the best line of defense you can have for your family. You can do everything right and still have a fire …
2. Utility gives away smoke alarms
3. Neighborhood in need to get smoke detectors
4. Residents offered free smoke alarms –  Public Safety Fire/Medic will contact you to schedule an installation time. Registrants must be home when the smoke alarms are installed. They will be asked to fill out a brief survey form, and will be given brochures with more fire safety information.

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Sprinklers

1. Fire Sprinkler Demonstrations – Countryside Fire Public Education Coordinator Tony Rodkey explains the importance of smoke alarms after live fire sprinkler demonstrations to Woodlawn Middle School students. Woodlawn Middle School 6th grade …
2. Press of Atlantic City: Latest attack against home fire sprinklers
3. Cape Coral, FL: Working towards fire sprinklers in all new homes As reported by NBC2 News First the City of Cape Coral, FL is working towards increasing the use of home fire sprinklers in new home construction. Policy makers intend to do this ordinance, offering incentives to make the systems cost-neutral. In 2010, the Florida Legislature prohibited the Building Code Council from including the 2009 IRC home fire sprinkler requirement in the adopted code. Local jurisdictions retain the ability to adopt provided that they perform an economic impact analysis justifying the…
4. Support N.J. fire sprinkler bill

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Wildland Fire Safety

1. Funding available for fire prevention – One of New Mexico’s most at-risk areas for wildfires is trying to keep what happened this summer from happening again when Ruidoso residents had just seconds to flee as a fast moving fire demolished homes. The state wants people to …
2. State approves new fire fees – The new $150 fees property owners in several areas here will pay the state will go to fire prevention — not firefighting — under a new emergency regulation. In a move condemned by some residents and county leaders, California’s Board …

 

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Other Fire Safety News

1. Holiday Season Fire Prevention - The fires serve as a reminder as we head into the season for house fires. “It gets colder so people inside they’re using heating,” said Duluth Fire Marshall Marnie Grondahl. “They have to heat their house, their furnace, using woodstoves, and electric …
2. Hartford Circus Fire: A 67-Year-Old Mystery
3. Chief urges chimney fire safety – With the arrival of winter weather and colder temperatures, wood-burning stoves and fireplaces are being fired up in Northern Michigan bringing with them an increase in chimney fires. Firefighters from the Charlton Township Fire …
4. Fire Burns Differently in Space, Space Station Experiment Shows “We hope to gain a better knowledge of droplet burning, improved spacecraft fire safety and ideas for more efficient utilization of liquid fuels on Earth,” project leader Forman Williams, of the University of California, San Diego, said in a statement.
5. Counties promoting fire safety Escambia and Santa Rosa counties launched campaigns today to promote holiday fire safety. Escambia County Fire-Rescue and the Pensacola Fire Department will participate in their eighth annual Keep the Wreath Green program, while Santa Rosa County …
6. Your Holiday Season Fire Safety List: Have You Checked It Twice? Following these and other basic fire safety tips will help make sure that you and your families enjoy a happy and safe holiday season.
7. Holiday fire safety tips of note Those challenges came to mind this week when the West Virginia State Fire Marshal emailed “Holiday Fire Safety” tips to The Journal.
8. Fire risks increase during the holidays
9. Stay Safe When Heat Is On Pocatello Fire Department Fire Prevention Capt. Richard Nelson said people might not remember some important steps to make sure everything is cool for the …
10. Fire safety quiz leads to grant
11. Are you Breaking Any of These Winter Fire Safety Tips?
12. Cold Weather Safety Tips from El Paso Fire Dept.
13. Fire Marshal Offers Common Sense Reminders to Stay Safe this Winter
14. Sharon Gets State Fire Education Grant –  Gov. Deval Patrick’s office and the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security announced the grants, Timilty said in a press release. Timilty chairs the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland …
15. Pasadena Fire Marshal’s Office offers valuable advice for space heaters –  The Pasadena Fire Marshal’s Office wants to remind residents that they can stop the fires before they begin by following these basic fire prevention practices when using space heaters or other alternative heating appliances: Space heaters need space
16. South Beloit sees increased fire losses in 2011

 

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Smoke Alarm Saves

1. IFD: Smoke detectors saved elderly woman from fire
2. Newly installed smoke alarms save 3 from Houston house fire -“Anybody can contact their local fire department and get a smoke alarm ,” he said. “We’ll even come out and install them for you so they are in the right place.” Hartley said the smoke alarms have 10-year batteries so people don’t have to remember to ..
3. Smoke alarms save lives, but fire guts Patterson home
4. Three Norwalk Residents Escape Early Morning Blaze
5. Roseburg man escapes burning house – A Roseburg man is lucky to be alive after a Tuesday morning fire destroyed his home on Broccoli Street in west Roseburg . Curtis Day, the owner of the home told firemen he woke up just before 3:00 am to the sound of a beeping smoke detector and his …
6. Three Escape House Fire In Bellingham Flames burned into the attic before the fire was extinguished, causing extensive damage. A smoke alarm woke one tenant who alerted the others.
7. Attic Fire Damages Centralia Home One adult male occupied the home and was alerted to the fire by a smoke alarm, according to assistant Chief Rick Mack. He was treated on the scene for smoke …
8. Smoke Alarm Saves Medford Man’s Life
9. Smoke detector saves woman, boyfriend from fire
10. Smoke Alarm Saves Medford Man’s Life
11. NW Fresno apartment fire displaces four families
12. Smoke detector alerts residents to oven fire
13. Fire rips through Niagara Falls home Each apartment was equipped with working smoke alarms, which alerted the tenant to the fire, said fire prevention officer John Dunn. …

 

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Sprinkler Saves

1. Winooski fire displaces residents
2. Fire in Crest Apartments displaces 24 students
3. Playing with matches leads to rug mill fire
4. Residents of senior living facility escape afternoon fire unharmed
5. Sprinkler System Stops Spread of Fire at The Plaza The sprinkler system activated a 911 alarm at 2:23 am Wednesday. … “This is a great example of how sprinklers work and prevented the fire from progressing …
6. Fire Injures One at Canton Place Senior Apartments The fire and smoke activated the buiding’s sprinkler system, which helped douse flames. Firefighters tools the unidentified female resident to the first …
7. Battling residential fires Sponsored by the Florida Fire Sprinkler Association and the Florida Chapter of … Cape Fire Division Chief Tom Tomich called residential fire sprinklers …
8. Sprinklers douse kitchen fire at senior housing complex in Silverdale –  A dinnertime kitchen fire Friday at a large senior-housing complex in Silverdale triggered the complex’s sprinkler system, which quickly quashed it. An occupant of the Vintage at Silverdale was heating grease in a skillet, ..
9. Fire officials: Sprinkler system lessened damage in Friday fire
10. Sprinklers Curb Catastrophic Plant Fire in Maine When the Rockland Fire Department learned at about 6 a.m. Sunday that there was a fire in the alcohol room at a major carrageenan processing plant at the harbor, officials feared the worst. Four fire engines with about a dozen firefighters and three ambulances raced to the FMC…

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Fire Prevention News: International

1. Ad campaign not as frightening as the terror of a real bushfire – Many homes were saved with built-in sprinklers , a tank and protected pump. The CFA holds regular Fire Ready meetings in their areas, providing an invaluable kick-start to inertia. There is an online self-assessment, and they offer a Home Bushfire ..
2. Detector fines levied in Trenton – Quinte West Fire Prevention officers Robert Comeau and Jay Coxwell said an unattended cooking appliance left on a stove was at the origin of the fire. Looking for exposure damage, the two fire prevention officers discovered that one of the tenants had …
3. Edinburgh University led scheme pushes for increased fire safety in homes – Edinburgh University is aiming to be at the fore front of fire safety in building design with the launch of its Integrating Technical and Social Aspects of Fire Safety Engineering & Expertise (IT-SAFE) project. The project aims to collaborate insight …
4. Firefighters visit Kidderminster supermarket – A VISIT by firefighters to a Kidderminster supermarket generated 32 referrals for home fire safety checks