It’s 3:30 a.m., and you have been dispatched to a report of a multifamily structure fire in your engine company’s first-due response area. Dispatch is reporting a fire has been called in on the fourth ...

I started my fire protection career over four decades ago as a fire sprinkler layout technician and the rules for designing a fire sprinkler system were in the National Fire Protection Association ...

In January 2015, a massive fire in Edgewater, N.J., demonstrated that buildings with sprinkler systems are not always protected against fire. The blaze destroyed 240 residential apartments and ...

View Partners in Progress: From Homes to High Rises via Firehouse’s proprietary digital platform Clarity. Retrofitting a new automatic sprinkler system into an existing building increases the fire ...

QUINCY, Mass.--The state of Maine adopted the latest edition of several National Fire Protection Association fire and life safety codes, the NFPA announced in October. They are: NFPA 1, Uniform Fire ...

QUINCY, Mass.—Cloud ceilings—drop ceilings that don't extend all the way to perimeter walls—are increasingly popular in commercial and industrial buildings. But for fire protection, is a sprinkler ...

We all pass large or complex buildings in our coverage area and look at them from the perspective of a firefighter, imagining what could go wrong. But then we also might think, “That building has a ...

Contrary to what you may see in television sitcoms, a home sprinkler system will not activate and spray water throughout the house if someone lights a cigar. Burned toast won't do it either.