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Keeping Your Community Safe with Home Fire Sprinklers

There's no doubt that residential fire sprinklers represent the next generation in home fire safety. As an established technology with a solid track record for protecting people and property, more widespread installation of home fire sprinklers will play the lead role in further protecting the public from fire in the years to come.

This comprehensive set of materials will help educate about home fire sprinklers' tremendous overall value and motivate local municipalities to adopt codes requiring their installation in all new home construction.

Talking about home fire sprinklers

• Slideshow: Barriers and incentives related to installation of home fire sprinklers (PPSX, 1 MB) 
• Sprinkler safety fast facts (PDF, 1.6 MB) 
  Statistics and information about this important safety topic. 
• Community outreach ideas (PDF, 135 KB)
  Your neighbors are your best resource to help spread heating safety messages. 
• Sprinkler safety talking points (PDF, 2.8 MB) 
  Whether you're talking to the media or your neighbors, here are some talking points to help you stay on point. 

Quarter-page sprinkler safety print ads

• You are 80% less likely to die in a house fire if sprinklers are present. (PDF 4.5 MB)
• Model safety codes now require home fire sprinklers in new one- and two-family homes. (PDF, 4.5 MB)
• You are 80% less likely to die in a house fire if sprinklers are present. Model safety codes now require home fire sprinklers in new one- and two-family homes. (PDF, 4.5 MB)

NFPA resources

• Fire Protection Research Foundation Report:  Home Fire Sprinkler Cost Assessment, September 2008 ( PDF, 635 KB)
• Sprinkler myths vs. facts (PDF, 116 KB)
• Home fire sprinkler resource list (32 KB)
• Easy-to-read messages - English (PDF, 8.6 MB)
• Easy-to-read messages - Spanish (PDF, 8.7 MB)

Fire Sprinkler Initiative resources

• Fact sheets and talking points 
• Videos 
• Research & reports 
• Faces of Fire campaign - personal stories of those who have been affected by fires in the home.

Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition
Including fire sprinklers in your new home is a great idea that can save your family members’ lives. But it does raise many questions. The Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition web site was designed to answer your questions and simplify the process. HFSC offers educational material with details about installed home fire sprinkler systems, how they work, why they provide affordable protection and answers to common myths and misconceptions about their operation. There is also information about retrofitting your existing home.