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.
Eau Claire and other fire departments are using lighted wreaths to encourage holiday fire prevention in their communities and possibly break the 2023 record
The Nuisance Fire Task Force includes police officers and sanitation workers as a part of new effort to stop fires in the Kensington neighborhood
Understanding there is always room for improvement, the Grand Rapids Fire Department is asking residents to let them know how they are doing
Consider the many ways you can pass on the messages of fire and life safety to those in your community
Novato Fire Station No. 3 has a non-pyrophytic garden, full of plants that won’t catch on fire as quickly as most other plants
Employees at private fire-safety companies do not announce themselves as fire personnel but give that impression based on clothing
The revised bill would prohibit the state fire marshal from requiring sprinkler systems in new one- and two-family homes
Chief Kelvin Cochran also addressed line-of-duty deaths, welcoming last year’s reduction in firefighter fatalities
Thomas Carr said he fought a similar battle over sprinklers in Maryland before taking over the Charleston Fire Department
The annual effort is meant to reduce the risk of wildfires posed by oft-called squatters
The firefighter who made the kits says city officials blocked him from receiving a $25,000 grant
In 2009, 2 people died in fires in Portsmouth
Automatic fire extinguishing systems already are required in townhouses and apartments
Four people died in three fires on the same day
South Carolina joins California, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey as states that have adopted the sprinkler requirement
Investigators are only halfway done combing through the scene and have yet to determine a cause
It was the third failed evacuation drill in recent years for the facility, according to state records
Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers credits education, enforcement and technology for the decline