Posts Tagged: Fire Safety
Fire Safety Challenges of Green Buildings Report
Fire Safety Challenges of Green Buildings
Author: Brian Meacham, Brandon Poole, Juan Echeverria and Raymond Cheng, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Re-posted by permission of Brian Meacham NFPA
Introduction
Many new commercial facilities are…
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New Mexico firefighter let go after accusing kids of stealing her wallet at school fire safety talk. Guess where the wallet was?
A big never mind after confrontation between students and firefighter in school's cafeteria.
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Fire Is! at the beach. Come join me in Ocean City on Monday for a special presentation.
An effective way of getting your fire safety and prevention message in front of middle schoolers.
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What’s in your daughter’s dorm room?
Here's a pretty cool local news story from yesterday. A couple of our local Colleges (Virginia Tech and Va. Western) have been working together to highlight fire safety in college dorm rooms.
See our local news  coverage HERE and the video below …
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10 Child Fire Safety Tips
Fire safety is a topic that is too lightly covered, imho. The schools do fire drills and some schools will have firefighters come in and talk about safety but not enough is being done to teach kids what to do in a real emergency.
Here are some great…
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UK Rap Fire Prevention Song: Good or Bad Investment
I think that $8000 is a drop in the bucket. If any fire department wants to get down to spending there are so many other things to point fingers at.
The song may not be extremely appealing to me, but it does have a good message and I think it should be used as much as possible. The song already has over 7000 views on youtube. Let's just hope they do some ideal marketing on this one to get their moneys worth!
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Residential Fire Sprinklers: A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH FOR COMMUNITIES
Residential Fire Sprinklers: A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH FOR COMMUNITIES
Residential Fire Sprinklers…A Step-By-Step Approach for Communities (Second Edition) – National Fire Sprinkler Association and International Association of Fire Chiefs – ha…
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Inflatable House Teaches Fire Safety
ANDERSON - Children jumped out of an inflatable house Tuesday, escaping an imaginary fire. During a firefighting exposition in the Civic Center of Anderson, county firefighter Sandy Chamblee rushed the children on, telling them to go “faster, faster.â…
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New NFPA campaign puts a face on the lifesaving impact of home sprinklers
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) announced the Faces of Fire campaign, featuring personal stories of those who have been affected by fires in the home. Faces of Fire is a tool to promote the required installation of fire sprinklers …
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FF’s Teach Fire Safety to Seniors
MYRTLE BEACH -- People who are 65 years old or older are twice as likely to be injured, or even killed, in a fire compared to the population at large. That's why Myrtle Beach Firefighters are taking time to educate older people on how to be safe at home.…
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42 Children Die in Mexican Day Care Fire – Where are the Safety Regulations?
42 children have died in a day care fire in Mexico and many others are hospitalized. Many are pointing to safety rules as being the reasons for the possibility for such tragedies as this to occur. Mexico is not a stranger to such fire related tragedies e…
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