To gain a greater understanding of PV technology UL sceintists constructed a functioning PV array to serve as a test fixture. UL discovered seven new findings regarding roof-mounted photovoltaic systems that impact firefighter safety.
http://www.solarnovus.com/7-keys-to-fire-safety-with-photovoltaic-installations_N7491.html
Temperature limiting control technology has been installed on over 100,000 stovetops without a single stovetop cooking fire reported. There is now an easy to install consumer version that can be installed simply by taking the existing element out and sliding the new one in.
The City of Ottawa received $5-million spread between the 2013 and 2014 budgets to replace breathing apparatus for hundreds of their firefighters.
A highway accident results in a spectacular and impressive series of explosions captured on video.
The Health Hazard Evaluation Program carried out a study at a fire service training facility to determine if airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other aromatic hydrocarbons generated during live fire training contaminate and pass through the skin of fire fighters.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2010-0156-3196S.pdf
Specifying fire protection for the storage of flammable and combustible liquids in containers is critical.
The way Quebec politicians and others are carrying on, you’d think that the automatic sprinkler system was an untried, still slightly sketchy, cutting-edge technology and not one proven over and over again in the 142 years since they were invented.
People living on a First Nations reserve in Canada are 10 times more likely to die in a house fire than people in the rest of Canada, according to a 2010 federal study on fire safety on reserves, a sombre figure highlighted by the deaths of two young boys in a northern Saskatchewan fire last week.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/fire-safety-on-first-nations-a-national-problem-1.2512633
A CBC investigation discovered more than half of 125 licensed personal care homes in Manitoba do not have full sprinkler systems; 37 had no sprinklers, while 55 had partial protection.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/fire-safety-review-overdue-242888091.html
A thirteen-year-old girl sat down in a classroom and heard a pop, and smoke began billowing from the back of her pants.
http://www.wmtw.com/news/iphone-catches-fire-in-students-pants/24224410#mid=16319809