Smoke Alarm Use in the United States - NFPA
Conducted in coordination with the Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF), the research affiliate of NFPA, and the National Institute of Safety and Technology (NIST), the newly released survey involved in-home interviews with 1,060 households located across the U.S. between January 1, 2019, and February 16, 2024.
Home Fire Sprinklers | NFPA
The Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition is a leading resource for accurate, non-commercial information and materials about home fire sprinklers for consumers, the fire service, builders, and other professionals. As a founding member of the HFSC Board, NFPA shares the coalition’s mission of raising awareness of the life-saving technology of home ...
Fire Prevention Week 2024—Smoke Alarms: Make Them Work For …
This year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign strives to educate everyone about the importance of having working smoke alarms in the home. In this webinar you will learn the WHY behind the campaign’s key calls to action: INSTALL, TEST, and REPLACE.
Home Structure Fires | NFPA Research
2023年4月1日 · The population-based home fire and fire death rates in 2021 were roughly one-third of the rates from 1980. The rate of reported home fires per thousand population fell from 3.2 in 1980 to 1.1 in 2021. In addition, the 2021 rate of 8.7 home fire deaths per million population was 62 percent lower than the 22.9 deaths per million population in 1980.
Fire Alarms and People with ASD: A Literature Summary - NFPA
2014年4月1日 · Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are hypersensitive to sound and light. Fire drills are regular events in many schools and other buildings and fire alarms can adversely affect both physically and mentally those with these sensitivities.
Smoke Alarm Types | NFPA
2024年9月6日 · Smoke alarms are important to fire safety in your home because the death rate in home structure fires is approximately 60 percent lower in homes with working smoke alarms than in homes with no alarms or none that worked, according to the latest NFPA research.
The Lithium-Ion Challenge - NFPA
2024年11月15日 · Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous but serious safety concerns remain. Here are efforts underway to close the gap.
Safety tip sheets in other languages - NFPA
Select NFPA safety tips sheets can be customized with your fire department or organization's name and contact information/web site. Open the PDF and scroll down to the bottom of the tip sheet. There you will see two lines where the text of your choice can be inserted.
NFPA Home Safety for People with Disabilities Tip Sheet PDF.
Free download. This NFPA tip sheet provides information to help everyone in the home, including people with disabilities, stay safer from fire.
Evaluation and testing of ICE and EV hazards and sprinkler ... - NFPA
2024年12月19日 · These experiments will provide crucial data on heat fluxes and fire spread in parking structures, informing fire protection practices and sprinkler design standards, by providing data on what hazard classification in NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems is appropriate for ICE vehicles and EVs in a parking garage. They ...