View Partners in Progress: From Homes to High Rises via Firehouse’s proprietary digital platform Clarity. Retrofitting a new automatic sprinkler system into an existing building increases the fire ...

Encourages volunteer firefighters to attend September conference to vote on code change. The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) recently adopted a resolution supporting a change to the ...

In January 2015, a massive fire in Edgewater, N.J., demonstrated that buildings with sprinkler systems are not always protected against fire. The blaze destroyed 240 residential apartments and ...

Fires in residential structures with sprinkler systems do so little damage, the Delaware State Fire Marshal’s Office doesn’t keep statistics on them. “Because if a sprinkler system goes off, a large, ...

Changes in the state building code this year might lead Rochester to weaken its requirements for fire-fighting sprinkler systems in businesses. City council members, meeting Monday afternoon to ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Almost 100 people die every year in South Carolina house fires, but a new mandate could require sprinkler systems in all new construction starting in 2011. When the state's ...

TUPELO — Tupelo officials have tightened restrictions on fire codes for multi-story residential buildings in what they claim is an effort to increase safety and the city’s fire rating. Earlier this ...