NFPA moves toward deployment standards
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has taken preliminary, “yet significant,” steps toward developing formal documents addressing fire service deployment standards for career and volunteer fire departments, according to the NFPA.
The proposed standard titles will be NFPA 1710, Standard for the Organization of Fire Suppression, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations Provided to the Public by Career Fire Departments, and NFPA 1720, Standard on Volunteer Fire Service Deployment. The technical committees for these documents will be headed by Alan Brunacini, chief of the Phoenix (AZ) Fire Department, and Peter McMahon, deputy chief of the Grand Island (NY) Fire Department, respectively.
Brunacini, McMahon, and Stephen N. Foley, the NFPA`s senior fire service specialist, will hold a deployment town meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday, November 14 (from 8 a.m. to 12 noon) during the NFPA`s 1999 Fall Meeting.
Public proposals for the drafts of both documents may be submitted by mail up to January 7, 2000, to the NFPA at One Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02269-9101; by fax, (617) 770-3500; or through its Web site (www.nfpa.org). Reports on both proposed documents are scheduled to be given at the NFPA 2001 World Fire Safety Congress and Exposition in Anaheim, California, in May 2001.
