Apartments buildings built after 2006 are required to have sprinkler systems and fire extinguishers, according to state law. About 70 residents were displaced and six people were treated for injuries, ...

This weekend, the International Code Council will hold a final action hearing on a resolution supporting a change to the International Residential Code to require fire sprinklers in new single-family ...

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 ...

New York is reconsidering a decades-old proposal that would require all new homes built in the state to be equipped with automatic fire sprinkler systems regardless of the cost. An unelected panel of ...

There are currently about 400 communities across the country with residential fire sprinkler ordinances for use in single-family dwellings, designed to meet NFPA 13D. We know such systems provide ...

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 ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Animal Housing—the body that oversees development and revisions of the Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities Code ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Donna Reis and Jon Wilkerson are among the hundreds of people displaced recently by two separate fires at an Arapahoe County condominium complex. The couple, ...