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		<title>Disposal of Smoke Alarms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Tech Talk Provides Timely Advice
The United States Fire Administration provides many resources to inspectors through training, education, and timely correspondence.  Tech Talk provides accurate and timely information on topics of interest to the fire protection community. Topics are selected based on inquiries and suggestions that USFA receives from readers.  Recently the second edition of Tech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Alarm Systems</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire Alarm installation is typically based on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 72 Fire Alarm Code. Each adopted fire or building code refers to an edition of the NFPA. The most recent version of NFPA 72 is the 2007 edition.]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Alarm design is it engineering?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A special blog post by Michael Baker 
As I travel the USA I notice that some states consider fire alarm system design to be engineering. My state of Oregon has been wrestling with this issue since at least 2004 when OSBEELS (Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying) asked the Oregon Department [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today most new fire alarm systems are power-limited. Power limiting is accomplished by the equipment manufacturer by limiting the amount of energy available to a level that is incapable of electrocution or igniting structure fires in ordinary installations. When a testing laboratory such as UL® verifies that the power available on a fire alarm control [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[hose that participate in the ICC’s code hearings may have noticed subtle changes in the past few years. Changes that have fire officials in the building code committees and vice versa. I see great cooperation between the two in the national code arena. However, locally we still see the division between the two. In the world of building and fire officials, there has been a long silence between the two parties. Or shall I say, turf battle, to clear this up. Building officials will say this is mine and fire will say no that is ours, whether it is fire alarms, fire sprinklers, dampers, etc. These latter items are both in the building and fire code, so why the battle? Why can’t both departments put forth a joint effort to benefit the community? Worst of all, contractors are stuck in the middle while the turf wars are settled. To answer the quote above, cooperation between the two isn’t being said or preached enough.
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		<title>What are Fire Department Responsibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a very interesting article in the Las Vegas Sun recently, written by Mike Trask of the Las Vegas Sun.  The article reports on a new policy the Henderson FD has initiated, where they will no longer respond to residential fire alarms unless a secondary means of verification is reported, witnessed or a water-flow device has been activated.

This type of policy should not be a total surprise or earth-shaking news to many fire departments around the country.  The Henderson Fire Department seems to be following a growing trend where many departments around the country are exploring data, developing modified concepts or have initiated similar policies.  The Henderson FD is not alone in this practice in the Metro Las Vegas area. The article states that the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Department adopted a similar policy back in 2003.]]></description>
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