Fire Prevention
The fire prevention topic encompasses a host of articles on creating public safety programs and community risk reduction ideas, as well as how to impress upon new fire department members the importance of sharing the fire prevention message.
How to tailor your safety messaging by age group
Investigators determined the fire that killed two people living in a Queens garage was arson
The Anchorage Fire Department is calling attention to poor maintenance, safety problems in multi-family housing
A state advisory panel has questioned the effectiveness of the fire systems and a convenience store association challenges the need for the costly devices
Be it a theater, a nightclub or a church, places where people like to gather can be very hazardous; teach your residents how to make safe decisions
Firefighters intentionally setting fires needs to be as much a part of our national discussion as is preventing injuries and line of duty deaths
The songs will be used as part of the fire service’s public education campaign
Dallas Fire-Rescue gave the complex 27 citations for code violations which are supposed to be corrected in two weeks
70 teenage cadets and adults are barred from the buildings until wiring and other hazards are fixed
Neighbors extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived
Experts are trying to determine how much advance warning is optimal for the public’s safety
When firefighters arrive on the scene of a fire, the first thing they do is listen for smoke detectors
Some of the projects included boarding up abandoned houses and demolishing others
The house was fully involved when firefighters arrived; the house had no smoke alarms
Two firefighters were charged with tampering with evidence for trying to show that the nightclub passed safety inspections
Modern fire science raises doubt as to if the fire was intentionally set
Public education is the better financial and moral investment
Toxic gasses and only one entrance made rescue efforts difficult
Even if affecting large policy change is hard to pull off, each of us can influence change in our day-to-day interactions
Fire marshal who inspected the club missed the foam because he was focused on wrong-way swinging door
A ‘where are they now’ look at the key players in the Station nightclub fire 10 years ago
Use information from the tragic nightclub fires as a means to get the fire-safety message home to your public
Survivors and family members of those who died gathered for the 10th anniversary of the deadly nightclub fire
The worst prison fire in at least a century has not spurred safety changes