A house fire can be devastating, especially if fire detection methods in place are not working or are improperly installed. To protect a house and its occupants, many homeowners opt to install a full ...

Maintaining healthy fire protection systems is not always top of mind for building owners or their designated facility managers – that is, until their system fails, costing them precious time, money ...

Sprinkler system design and construction are paramount to fire suppression and safety in all industrial facilities. They have more significance within the waste, recycling and scrap metal industries ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

What puts out a fire? If you said firefighters, you aren't exactly wrong, but it could take a while for your rescuers to arrive—which may explain why house fires kill more than 2,500 people each year ...

The NFSA offers several member categories: Contractor, Supplier & Manufacturer, Professional and Subscriber. View the Firefighters & Fire Sprinklers—Partners in Progress supplement in its entirety via ...

Modern warehouses — some up to 100 feet high and spanning hundreds of thousands of square feet — are straining existing fire ...

Just as you routinely check your smoke alarms to make sure they work in an emergency; you should also routinely check your ...

My sincere condolence to the Teachers, students, Minis-try of Education and the people of Guyana on the loss by fire of the St. George’s High School, thankfully no one was hurt. This is another School ...

In an effort to prevent tragedies such as last year’s Gabriel House fire in Fall River, the state has updated its code to address a weakness exposed by the deadly fire. The Massachusetts Board of Fire ...

Most Arkansans will never see a sprinkler head open or a kitchen hood system discharge. That's the point. Most Arkansas businesses have fire protection equipment that sits quietly for years, and they ...

Inventors began experimenting with automatic sprinklers around 1860. These systems started out as pipes with holes drilled in them. When a fire occurred, the water was turned on to control the fire.