Fire Next Door to Sprinkler Business Put Out Quickly
from Deseret News – June 26, 2009
 In business, it's all about location, location, location. For one business in South Salt Lake, Utah, location may have saved the store. A fire started at Tech Advanced Materials.The business uses acetone, a highly flammable substance, in metal materials, said South Salt Lake Fire Chief Steve Foote. As luck would have it, the adjacent business, Simplex Grinnell, specialized in fire sprinkler systems and had one installed throughout the complex.
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Cheshire, Conn., Fire Officials Hope Sprinklers Become More Common
from The Cheshire Herald – June 30, 2009
Approximately 40 homes in Cheshire are already equipped with fire suppression sprinkler systems, but that number was increased recently when a development was completed in town and local fire department authorities are applauding the action. With over $7 billion worth of fire damage caused nationally in 2007, Casner believes those numbers could have been greatly reduced if residential sprinklers were prevalent in many homes.
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Kenilworth, N.J., Schools Tap Bond for Sprinklers
from Cranford Chronicle - June 29, 2009
The Board of Education approved a package of resolutions awarding contracts for repairs to the district's two schools. The board voted to approve a contract for a sprinkler system for Warren Harding Elementary School.
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July 14 Webinar - Significant Changes to NFPA 14, 2010 Edition
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AFSA - June 17, 2009
Held Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. CDT, this 90-minute seminar will include discussion of “performance based” calculations of Class I hose connections, and the hydraulic characteristics of fire hose and accessory equipment. This seminar offers 1.5 CPDs and/or 0.15 CEUs. More
Sprinkler Extinguishes South Carolina Rug and Home Store Fire
from
WYFF – June 25, 2009
Cherokee County firefighters responded to a fire at the Rug and Home store in Gaffney, S.C. The sprinkler system put the fire out before fire crews even arrived. The store's manager said there is about $1 million worth of rugs and furniture on hold for customers, but he said none of it was damaged.
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Register Early and Win Free Stuff!
from AFSA – June 17, 2009
Due to an unanticipated delay in delivery of its 2009 convention brochure, AFSA is extending the early bird registration deadline by one week to Friday, July 17 to allow everyone ample opportunity to save! Also, be sure to follow AFSA on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/afsa
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Alabama Mill Fire Kept in Check by Sprinklers
from Opelika-Auburn News – June 26, 2009
No one was injured after a fire broke out at the Norman W. Paschall Co. utilization facility in Valley, Ala. Byron Pigg, chief of the East Alabama Fire District, said they responded shortly after the call and found a machine and raw materials near the machine on fire. Pigg said the building’s sprinkler system had turned on and kept the fire under control until firefighters could extinguish it completely.
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