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		On-Campus Mass Notification After two all-campus lockdowns due to firearms threats, Mesa Community College Public Safety Officers needed a mass notification system fast.

		Off-Campus Fire Safety How Wesleyan University meets the challenge of making its unique student housing fire safe.

		Why AFCIs? How combination arc-fault circuit interrupters enhance electrical safety in the home.

		NIST Goes Back To School Just in time for Fall, NIST evaluates positive pressure ventilation tactics in a retired high school.

		2007 U.S. Fire Loss In 2007, public fire departments responded to 1,557,500 fires in the United States. This represents a decrease of 5.2 percent from the year before and is the lowest total since 2004.

		2007 U.S. Multiple-Death Fires Last year, catastrophic fires claimed the lives of 190 people, a figure that represents 5.5 percent of the total estimated U.S. fire death toll last year.