The most effective means of combating a fire in a residential occupancy is a properly designed, installed, and maintained fire sprinkler system. These systems use automatic fire sprinklers that ...

The NFFF launched a new training module, Automatic Fire Sprinkler and Alarm Systems, that is self-paced and can be completed at any time or place. Automatic fire sprinkler systems and automatic fire ...

On August 22, a fire broke out in a Bellevue apartment that completely destroyed 21 units and displaced residents from more than four dozen units in the complex. It took 88 medical, support and fire ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --All pet shops and facilities that house animals for 24 hours in New York City will now have to be equipped with automatic fire sprinklers. City Council passed the ...

Mayor Sarah Smith Hymes and council members Amy Phillips, Tamra Underwood and Russell “RJ” Andrade voted for it. The current code only requires residential buildings of over 6,000 square feet to have ...

DALLAS — For his 31-years of dedication to fire protection as a means of saving lives, Rick Matsuda, P.E., was selected by American Fire Sprinkler Association's Public Education and Awareness ...

Hey all, for a while now I've been wanting to put some sort of automatic sprinkler system around my cabin in Northern California to protect it from wildfire. Wildfires in the area are becoming an ...

New York is reconsidering a decades-old proposal that would require all new homes built in the state to be equipped with automatic fire sprinkler systems regardless of the cost. An unelected panel of ...

Fire officials say crews were called to the 600 block of Sand Pearl Lane overnight Wednesday. There was haze in one unit and smoke coming from a vent outside the deck. Firefighters found the fire in ...