Digital Edition

The digital issue of NFPA Journal® is web-based and presents all of the magazine’s stories and ads as they appear in the print magazine, with websites and email addresses clickable for instant access. The digital issue includes special versions for iPad, iPhone, and Android.

September/October 2013
NFPA Journal: September/October 2013 - CoverIn addition to furniture flammability, we look at the role of the fire service in integrated responses to mass-casualty shootings. Plus, an interview on corrosion in dry-pipe sprinkler systems in cultural resource occupancies.

  • Fire Loss in the United States in 2012
  • Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2012 
  • Designing fire safety into homes for an aging population
  • Why health care occupancies need reliable electrical infrastructures



July/August 2013
In addition to our cover story on MNS at Circuit of the Americas, we take a close look at the creation of a new guide for event safety. Plus, an update from the annual meeting in Chicago.

May/June 2013
A complete guide to the NFPA Conference + Expo including a feature on changes to the 2013 edition of the National Electrical Code® which will enhance the safety of home rooftop wiring, green power systems, and more. 

March/April 2013
The international retailer IKEA joins insurers, sprinkler manufacturers, and other stakeholders in devising protection criteria for hazardous stored products that they hope can soon be included in NFPA 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems?

January/February 2013
Hurricane Sandy tested emergency procedures at health care facilities all along the East Coast; on the eve of a new requirement that all U.S. nursing homes be sprinklered, a look back at 50 years of progress and the new challenges that continue to emerge; how key lessons learned from the 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, are being incorporated into the design, construction, and emergency planning of the new Mercy Hospital Joplin.

November/December 2012
The 70th anniversary of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire; fire and life safety risks associated with green buildings: the ongoing debate surrounding series fire pumps

September/October 2012
Lessons learned from the Comayagua, Honduras prison fire; The costliest wildfire in Colorado history; 2011 Fire Loss in the United States report; and the Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2011.

July/August 2012
Fire and life safety upgrades at Boston's Fenway Park; Integrating safety and historic preservation on the Statue of Libery; Emergency preparation at live events; 2011 firefighter fatalities.

May/June 2012
The new Digital Edition of the NFPA Journal; 13 questions about sprinkler systems; A 2012 NFPA Conference & Expo preview; Updating fire fighter safety standards.

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