Studying the Surge
The pandemic presented a unique opportunity for researchers to study peak electrical demand at hospitals. It revealed systems that may be greatly oversized.
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INTERNATIONAL
Ultra Urban
A vast rural-to-urban migration is underway. How can the safety community prepare? Read article.
CODES & STANDARDS
Beyond Foam
The latest edition to aircraft hangar standard allows users to consider alternatives to foam suppression. Read article.
THE NFPA PODCAST
Preventing Human Trafficking
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. In today's episode of The NFPA Podcast, we revisit an interview NFPA Journal Executive Editor Scott Sutherland conducted with Jeremy Inglis in October. Inglis, a Canadian fire chief, discusses how firefighters, building inspectors, and others can learn to better identify and help prevent human trafficking.
VIDEOS FROM NFPA
Using Virtual Reality to Train Firefighters
In this episode of Learn Something New by NFPA Journal, we examine the use of VR and AR technologies to train firefighters.
Using Virtual Reality to Train Firefighters
In this episode of Learn Something New by NFPA Journal, we examine the use of VR and AR technologies to train firefighters.
WILDFIRE
‘No Stopping It’
A Montana cattle rancher reflects on a summer wildfire and what a future of more fires means
FIRE NEWS
Oddities
A roundup of four recent headscratchers from the world of fire and life safety
OPINION
Preventing the Preventable
An investigation into deadly home fires in Chicago uncovers lapses at every level of local government
YEAR IN REVIEW
2021 Editors’ Picks
The NFPA Journal editorial team goes over some of its favorite stories from the past year
ECOSYSTEM SUCCESSFollowing a fatal 2019 gas blast, a Maine law takes effect requiring gas detectors in buildings where appliances that use natural gas or propane are located. The November/December 2020 issue of NFPA Journal included a feature story on the importance of gas detection systems; read the article at nfpa.org/earlywarning.
ECOSYSTEM FAILAs Typhoon Rai bore down on the Philippines, a priest holds mass in defiance of evacuation orders. Video shows powerful winds and rains sweeping through the church as the priest speaks to empty pews. Watch a video.
ECOSYSTEM SUCCESSNFPA and vipHomeLink announce a partnership to bring world-class fire, life, and electrical safety information from NFPA to homeowners using vipHomeLink’s digital platform. Read more.
ECOSYSTEM SUCCESS After a string of costly shipboard fires, the US Navy forms a group of professionals to oversee bolstering fire safety on ships. The group will primarily focus on preventing hot work and electrical fires. Read more.
ECOSYSTEM SUCCESS Volunteer firefighter Tyler Hicks of Rudd, Iowa, keeps a tornado siren wailing by hand as historic storms rocked the northern Iowa city in December. “I signed up to do this, and that was my job that night,” Hicks tells local reporters. Read more.
ECOSYSTEM FAIL Officials say heat lamps at a marijuana grow facility illegally located in the basement of a residential property in Foxboro, Massachusetts, sparked a mid-December blaze that displaced a dozen residents. Read more.
FIRE NEWS
Daily Dispatches
News for America's Fire Service, compiled by the
Western Fire Chiefs Association
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Fire safety in an increasingly urbanized world, putting a stop to human human trafficking, Beirut a year after its catastrophic port blast, flood risk in the United States, and much more. It’s all in the Winter 2021 issue of NFPA Journal.
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