Fire Prevention News: Weekly Digest

Selected Fire Prevention related articles appearing in the past week from scores of e-sources in the news media. Updated each Monday morning.

Note: When selecting any of the news links below you will leave the LRC website. We have provided these links because they have information that may be of interest to our viewers. USFA does not necessarily endorse the views expressed or the facts presented on these sites nor does USFA endorse any commercial products that may be advertised on them.
  1. Campaigns / Other Fire Prevention Efforts
  2. Campus fire safety
  3. Inspections/Code enforcement
  4. Smoke Alarms
  5. Sprinklers
  6. Wildland Fire Safety
  7. Fire safety tips and reminders
  8. Other Safety News
  9. International News

Links to Fire Prevention-related news articles - Updated 02/11/2013

Campaigns/ Other Fire Safety Activities

  1. Are you up for the smoke alarm challenge? (NFPA)
  2. East Ridge installing free smoke detectors - (Tennessee)
  3. Newark steps up fire prevention efforts
  4. Baltimore Fire Dept. to purchase 800 smoke detectors
  5. Howland to give away smoke detectors (Ohio)
  6. Cobourg Fire Department Hosts a Free Fire Safety Planning Workshop (Canada)
  7. Enfield library service will help residents learn more about fire safety (UK)
  8. Stuttgart FD to install smoke alarms (Arkansas)

Campus fire safety

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Inspections / Code enforcement

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Smoke Alarms

  1. Mother and two children saved from fire by smoke detector (South Carolina)
  2. City homeowners can get free smoke detectors
  3. Smoke detector saves lives of Herkimer fire victims
  4. Seniors without detectors at risk (Massachusetts)
  5. Pike County businesses donate smoke detectors (Kentucky)
  6. Smoke Detectors Save Lives—Really, Says Parsippany Fire Captain (New Jersey)

Sprinklers

  1. Sprinklers Local Campaign Toolkit (UK)
  2. Residential fire sprinklers make the difference in house fire (Tucson, AZ)
  3. Fire extinguished by sprinkler system at apartment complex (Happy Valley, OR)
  4. Sprinklers save child playing with matches (Maryland)

Wildland Fire Safety

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Safety tips and reminders

  1. Tennessee Fire Marshal's Office urges safety in manufactured homes
  2. My landlord, the fire safety hero (NFPA)
  3. Local firefighters offer tips on fire safety (West Virginia)
  4. String of devastating blazes spurs home fire fears (Maine)
  5. State fire investigators extra busy this season (Maine)
  6. Barn Fire Safety Checklist
  7. Make home fire safety a priority

Other Safety News

  1. Uptick in number of fatal fires in Mass
  2. Proper Preparation Can Save Lives, Safety Experts Urge After Fatal Chicago

 

Fire Prevention News: International
  1. Sprinklers Local Campaign Toolkit (UK)
  2. Cobourg Fire Department Hosts a Free Fire Safety Planning Workshop (Canada)
  3. Calls for more fire sprinklers in homes (UK)

 

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