“It’s Fire Prevention Week. Protect your Family from Fire!”
National Fire Prevention Week is October 9-15, 2011. This year the NFPA’s official theme for Fire Prevention Week is “Protect Your Family From Fire”. As per the NFPA, this year’s campaign is all about keeping you, your family, and your community safer from fire.
Associated Fire Protection encourages everyone to take some [...]

National Fire Prevention Week is October 3-9th, 2010. This year the NFPA’s official theme for Fire Prevention week is “Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With!” As per NFPA, “This year’s campaign is designed to educate people about the importance of smoke alarms and encourage everyone to take the steps necessary to update and [...]

Did you know?

Each year nearly 3,000 people die in U.S home fires. 
A fire department responded to a home fire every 81 seconds. 
Unattended cooking continues to be the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries.
Heating equipment fires accounted for 16% of all reported home fires (second behind cooking) and 21% of home fire deaths.

Smoke alarms [...]

The NJ Department of Community Affairs (DCA) announced that all nursing homes in New Jersey will now be required to have automatic sprinkler systems. The rule originally went into effect on January 2, 2007 and owners had three years to bring their facilities into compliance.
The rule amends the retrofit requriements of the State’s Uniform Fire [...]