Fires in Storage Unit Facilities Pose Risk of Victims
Tim Thompson recounts lessons learned from a series of fires in storage unit facilties, one with devastating consequences.
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Protecting the Community Through Code Enforcement
Tim Thompson offers best practices for introducing or increasing code enforcement into communities.
Health and Safety Awareness for Fire Investigators
Although preventing firefighter cancer has been a foremost health and safety issue in the fire service, fire investigators exposure to carcinogens has been largely overlooked.
Fire Prevention and Firefighter Safety Go Together
Code enforcement action taken while conducting fire inspections will have a positive impact on firefighter safety.
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Annual Fire and Life Safety Inspections in Businesses
How can we make the fire inspection process for businesses more effective and mitigate its punitive perception? Patrick Nicholson shares some thoughts.
The Value of Fire Inspections
Fire inspections are not the most glamorous task that fire departments must undertake, but they are crucial to community safety.
What Building and Fire Codes Tell Us
History shows people do not build with safety in mind. GREGORY HAVEL
Fire Blog Roundup: Fire Inspections, Change Agents, and Stress
Frank Viscuso returns to share some thoughts about fire department change and leadership. Read a roundup of some of our recent blog posts.
Protect Firefighters Through Aggressive Fire Inspections
Time and time again, we bear witness to countless tragedies that could have been prevented (or at least minimized) if there had been "aggressive" and thorough enforcement of the fire code.
NFA Seeks Student to Pilot Fire Inspection Principles Courses
The U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Academy needs students to help pilot test the two new 6-day courses in the Fire Inspection Principles series.
Legal Minute: Fire Inspections
Why do we perform fire inspections? Retired deputy fire chief and attorney John K. Murphy discusses the legal aspects of conducting fire inspections.
Providence (RI) Fire Inspections Records Out of Date
Many bars and nightclubs in Providence, Rhode Island, do not have current fire inspections on file, despite the glaring example of The Station nightclub fire 10 years ago, which killed 100 people and injured another 200 in West Warwick.