View Partners in Progress: From Homes to High Rises via Firehouse’s proprietary digital platform Clarity. Retrofitting a new automatic sprinkler system into an existing building increases the fire ...

Encourages volunteer firefighters to attend September conference to vote on code change. The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) recently adopted a resolution supporting a change to the ...

In January 2015, a massive fire in Edgewater, N.J., demonstrated that buildings with sprinkler systems are not always protected against fire. The blaze destroyed 240 residential apartments and ...

Changes in the state building code this year might lead Rochester to weaken its requirements for fire-fighting sprinkler systems in businesses. City council members, meeting Monday afternoon to ...

Sprinkler system design and construction are paramount to fire suppression and safety in all industrial facilities. They have more significance within the waste, recycling and scrap metal industries ...

A Cape Girardeau television station would have to install a costly sprinkler system in its 13-story structure within the next 10 years to meet the city's building code, fire chief Rick Ennis said ...

TUPELO — Tupelo officials have tightened restrictions on fire codes for multi-story residential buildings in what they claim is an effort to increase safety and the city’s fire rating. Earlier this ...