SecurityInfoWatch - Feb 28, 2012 Minnesotra homebuilders are fighting a code proposal to require fire sprinkler systems in new single family homes. Minnesota fire officials are trying to strike a deal that would require sprinklers in all new single-family homes built in Minnesota, ... |
Los Angeles Times - Mar 15, 2012 In Room 22125, which is used for storage, firefighters found charred bags of comforters and pillows -- an automatic sprinkler had snuffed out the flames before they spread. What the firefighters discovered raised all sorts of questions: an unconscious ... Fire set at Tilman Fertitta's Vegas casino: Mysterious man found in room where ... CultureMap Houston See all 14 sources » |
Patch.com - Mar 8, 2012 The fire started in the large industrial heating unit in the equipment room but a fire sprinkler directly above the unit helped it from spreading, said a fire official. |
NewsOK.com - Mar 14, 2012 The Oklahoma City Council is considering adopting a new building code that would require automatic fire sprinkler systems to be installed in new homes. |
Seacoastonline.com - 3 hours ago Dan Remick, general manager at Eldredge Lumber and Hardware, said the machine at the back of the business caught fire at around 3:30 am, activating the sprinkler and fire alarm. "York (Village) Fire Department was on it in a heartbeat and did a ... |
Colorado Springs Gazette - 10 hours ago El Paso County commissioners will take up the contentious issue of fire code requirements - namely automatic sprinklers for homes larger than 6000 square feet - at their Thursday meeting. The long-running issue has placed the five county ... |
Lake Stevens Journal - 15 hours ago Granite Falls Fire District #17 was awarded a $1000 stipend from the national nonprofit Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) to increase its home fire sprinkler education locally by conducting a live fire and sprinkler side-by-side educational ... |
Colorado Springs Gazette - 10 hours ago El Paso County commissioners will take up the contentious issue of fire code requirements - namely automatic sprinklers for homes larger than 6000 square feet - at their Thursday meeting. The long-running issue has placed the five county ... |
FireEngineering.com - 2 hours ago The Senate will continue debate Wednesday on the legislation, which would strip local jurisdictions of their ability to opt out of state building standards that require sprinklers. Sponsors say the bill could save lives and prevent fire damage by ... |
Firehouse.com - 12 hours ago Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills) said Monday that he was becoming co-sponsor of federal legislation that would provide tax incentives for installing fire sprinklers in buildings where they are not currently required. March 19--Rep. Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills) ... |
Patch.com - Mar 19, 2012 Steve Israel co-signs legislation to offer federal tax incentive to retroactively install fire sprinkler systems in residential homes. |
NewsOK.com - 4 hours ago In response to "City considers requiring sprinklers in new homes" (News, March 15): Let's concentrate on smoke alarms, not a fire sprinkler mandate. The decision on whether to mandate automatic fire sprinklers in new homes doesn't pit housing industry ... |
expressandstar.com - 1 hour ago Firefighters said after the blaze that the warehouse could have been saved if a sprinker system had been fitted but Mr Carver said: "The fire service never told us to install a sprinkler system other than at the gas plant, which we duly did. |
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Mar 5, 2012 25 editorial, and a subsequent letter to the editor, opposing a proposed city ordinance requiring new homes be equipped with fire sprinklers: First and foremost, we suspect plumbers will install many of the fire sprinkler systems not the fire sprinkler ... |
Providence Eyewitness News - Mar 13, 2012 Now, one state lawmaker wants to make fire codes more flexible and less costly for small businesses. Senator William Wallaska of Warwick has introduced a bill that will ask for the square footage requirement of sprinklers to be decreased. |
Patch.com - Mar 8, 2012 Two fires which have occurred in New Hampshire within the past 45 days illustrating both the need and benefit of residential fire sprinklers. Two long term studies show the effectiveness of residential fire sprinklers. Prince Georges County, Maryland: ... |
SecurityInfoWatch - Feb 28, 2012 Minnesotra homebuilders are fighting a code proposal to require fire sprinkler systems in new single family homes. Minnesota fire officials are trying to strike a deal that would require sprinklers in all new single-family homes built in Minnesota, ... |
Patch.com - 16 hours ago Fire Chief Marty Scheerer said the damage caused would have been minimal if the building had a sprinkler system. By Ryan Gauthier No injuries were reported following a small fire in the third floor of an Edina apartment building on Tuesday, Mar. 13. |
Orlando Sentinel - 10 hours ago The fire originated in a small buffet-style food area and was extinguished by a triggered sprinkler, he said. It caused minimal damage and was ruled accidental, Pagliarulo said. |
The Tennessean - 5 hours ago FRANKLIN - Franklin Mayor Ken Moore and city aldermen have rebuked a slate of proposed state laws that would potentially strip the ability of city leaders to regulate everything from fire sprinkler installation to the sale of fireworks to land use. |
Patch.com - Mar 8, 2012 The fire started in the large industrial heating unit in the equipment room but a fire sprinkler directly above the unit helped it from spreading, said a fire official. |
DesMoinesRegister.com - 11 hours ago A sprinkler helped put out an apartment fire at a West Des Moines senior living complex on Wednesday, authorities said. |
NewsOK.com - 7 hours ago The Oklahoma City Council is considering adopting a new building code that would require automatic fire sprinkler systems to be installed in new homes. |
Maple Valley Reporter - Feb 26, 2012 18. at approximately 8:30 am, a fire occurred at Mount Si Transitional Health Center in North Bend. A single sprinkler head activated and contained the fire until the fire department arrived. Quick acting staff protected residents from the deadly ... |
SecurityInfoWatch - Feb 28, 2012 Minnesotra homebuilders are fighting a code proposal to require fire sprinkler systems in new single family homes. Minnesota fire officials are trying to strike a deal that would require sprinklers in all new single-family homes built in Minnesota, ... |
CBS Local - Mar 7, 2012 FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4)- Firefighters with the Poudre Fire Authority said a fire sprinkler kept a fire contained inside a closet in a dorm room on the Colorado State University Campus. |
Main Line - Mar 7, 2012 By Pete Bannan Ardmore and Bryn Mawr firefighters were called to a kitchen fire in an apartment above Fellini's restaurant late Tuesday evening. |
Derby Telegraph - Mar 7, 2012 SCORES of Derbyshire homes will get free sprinkler systems in a bid to cut the county's alarming fire death rates. |
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Mar 5, 2012 25 editorial, and a subsequent letter to the editor, opposing a proposed city ordinance requiring new homes be equipped with fire sprinklers: First and foremost, we suspect plumbers will install many of the fire sprinkler systems not the fire sprinkler ... |
Tampabay.com - 17 hours ago Lt. Joel Granata said the fire was called in at 470 Third Street S at 3:29 pm, and that the building's sprinklers were quickly activated. When firefighters arrived on the sixth floor of the 10-story building, they spotted smoke in the hallways and ... |
WSOC Charlotte - 3 hours ago By Torie Wells An overnight fire in an east Charlotte pizzeria caused thousands of dollars in damages, fire officials said. |
Patch.com - 17 hours ago The fire started in the large industrial heating unit in the equipment room but a fire sprinkler directly above the unit helped it from spreading, said a fire official. |
Campus Times - Feb 23, 2012 The fire alarm and sprinkler system were activated in Valentine Tower on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 2:30 am, after a student threw a burnt paper towel down the trash shoot. |
KELOLAND TV - Feb 9, 2012 By Hailey Higgins SIOUX FALLS, SD - Fire investigators credit a 40-year-old sprinkler system with saving countless lives this week. |
Baltimore Sun - Feb 21, 2012 Crews from the Arbutus and Lansdowne volunteer stations and Catonsville and Halethorpe career stations responded to the report of a building fire in Violetville and found a fire had been extinguished by the sprinkler system. Fire-Rescue Log is compiled ... |
Otago Daily Times - 10 hours ago Emergency services were called when a sprinkler on the top level of the library was set off about 12.45pm. Water had spread across five levels of the building, including the basement, before firefighters could shut off the sprinkler. Fire Service ... |
Spartanburg Herald Journal - Feb 22, 2012 Three fire departments responded to the high-rise apartment building shortly after 6 pm Tuesday after a small kitchen fire set off the building's fire alarms and the sprinkler in a single apartment. A pot on a stove in the 12th-floor apartment ... |
Dekalb Daily Chronicle - Feb 20, 2012 Illinois State Fire Marshal Larry Matkaitis soon will ask a General Assembly committee to mandate sprinkler systems in new homes. |
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Feb 23, 2012 By Jennifer Robison Southern Nevada's biggest city has a new fire-sprinkler rule, but the regulation won't affect local homeowners anytime soon. |
Atlanta Journal Constitution - 2 hours ago The fire, which was reported shortly after midnight at Zoar United Methodist Church on Zoar Church Road near Snellville, had already been doused by the building's sprinkler system when firefighters arrived, Gwinnett fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge said. |
Arizona Republic - 5 hours ago In June 1985, the city approved a comprehensive fire-sprinkler ordinance that requires fire sprinklers in all newly constructed single-family and multifamily residences, as well as commercial buildings. |
Marinscope Community Newspapers - 11 hours ago The fire was contained within an hour. A sprinkler system helped quell the flames. Crews are investigating the cause of the blaze and firefighters conducted salvage and overhaul operations. |
The Breeze - 9 hours ago Fire trucks and police vehicles responded outside of Chesapeake Hall when the building's sprinkler system was activated around midnight Tuesday morning. |
KIII TV3 - 12 hours ago The McDonalds in Flour Bluff was closed for much of Tuesday afternoon after a fire in the kitchen. There was no real damage to the building, but the fire itself was found within the walls of the kitchen. The sprinkler system was activated, ... |
Patch.com - 10 hours ago There was no fire, but hundreds of gallons of water flooded a condo on Seacoast Drive Tuesday afternoon. By Khari Johnson Around 5 pm Tuesday a fire alarm went off and sprinklers began to flow in a condo on Seacoast Drive, Imperial Beach Fire ... |
The Olympian - 9 hours ago Lacey Fire District 3 reported Tuesday that thieves have taken 10-15 fire sprinkler connectors at commercial buildings in the area. |
Chicago Daily Herald - 20 hours ago They said a small kitchen fire had triggered the sprinkler system. The two residents living in the unit where the fire started were taken to safety, authorities said, and the fire was quickly extinguished. |
WJXT Jacksonville - Feb 7, 2012 A malfunction of the fire alarm system at the Duval County School Board building Tuesday forced the building to be evacuated and triggered the fire sprinklers to come on, flooding the first floor. "Right now we don't honestly know if there was an ... |
Cumberland Courier Newspapers - Feb 13, 2012 TWO northern beaches nursing home operators are getting the jump on their competitors by committing to install fire sprinklers even if the state government does not make the devices mandatory. The Cook Care Group, which runs the Peninsula Nursing Home ... |
Yankton Daily Press - Feb 13, 2012 A minor fire that could have turned into a big problem was extinguished by a Yankton firm's sprinkler system Sunday morning. |
