Fire codes in New Hampshire require residents of care facilities to be able to evacuate the building within thirteen minutes. The president of the New Hampshire Association of Residential Care Homes said the problem of elderly residents being forced out of assisted living facilities is “a very significant issue.”
Worksafe BC paid insufficient attention to important legal precedents that underpin the legitimate gathering of evidence for prosecution purposes, even though the Criminal Justice Branch had previously shared its concerns on the collection of evidence.
A six-year-old Massachusetts law requiring that only “fire-safe” cigarettes (FSCs) be sold in the state appears to decrease the likelihood of unintentional residential fires caused by cigarettes by 28%, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-02-massachusetts-fire-safe-cigarette-law-decrease.html
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.