– To address the increase in Maryland residential fire fatalities as compared to the same time last year, a new state law aimed at reducing home fire deaths will require long-life sealed-in battery smoke alarms effective July 1. READ
– The 2013 International Fire/EMS Safety and Health Week (June 16-22) supports Life Safety Initiative #13: Firefighters and their families must have access to counseling and psychological support. READ
– Kidde Fire Safety will empower the nearly one million attendees at this year's CMA Music Festival to be safety super heroes. READ
– West, TX Memorial Service DVD Now Available READ
– Wildland Firefighting: Everyone Goes Home, a video produced by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, is a story that honors friends and can save the lives of others. READ
– For South Carolina's Charleston Fire Department change has come rapidly and in the most difficult of ways. After the deaths of nine firefighters at the Sofa Super Store fire on June 18, 2007, the department has remade itself in ways both dramatic and inspiring. READ
– Maryland is the most recent state to require that battery-only operated smoke alarms be equipped with sealed-in, 10-year lithium batteries. The new law takes effect on July 1, 2013. READ
– When responding to fires in high-rise buildings, firefighting crews of five or six members-instead of three or four-are significantly faster in putting out fires and completing search-and-rescue operations, concludes a major new study* carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with five other organizations. READ
– Pierce Manufacturing today launched Support for the Long Haul, a nationwide campaign to assist the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF). READ
– The Congressional Fire Services Institute and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation have selected Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue, the Office of the Oregon Fire Marshal and the Governor's Fire Service Policy Council as the recipient of the 2013 Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Fire Service Safety Leadership Award. READ
