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Since we launched our new website, we’ve been working on archiving our previous bulletin board. Our goal was to provide you with access to the wealth of valuable information and opinions that accumulated over the years of its existence. Over the last two weeks, we’ve received an overwhelming amount of requests for these archives and we’re happy to announce they are now ready. View the Bulletin Board archives now!

NIOSH fatality report recommends marking vacant buildings

By Ken Robinson
FireRescue1 Staff

ATLANTA, Ga. (10/8/09) — Fire departments, municipalities and organizations like NFPA that set standards should consider developing and implementing a system for identifying and marking unoccupied, vacant or abandoned structures to improve firefighter safety, a NIOSH report recommends. Read More
Announcements

Residential Fire Safety Symposium

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the Phoenix Fire Department will be hosting a first of its kind Residential Fire Safety Symposium at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix, Arizona on December 2nd and 3rd, 2009. The Symposium, titled "Designing Fire Safety into Residential Construction: Perspectives, Ideas, and Trends," will be available to people concerned with residential fire safety, including the general public, through UL University registration. Read more.

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Now Online: ICC Bulletin Board Archives