NEWSLETTER
Village of Hodgkins to Pay Half of the Cost of New Home Fire Sprinkler Installations in One- and Two-Family Homes
Left to right: Village of Hodgkins Water Department Foreman Ken Tucker, Code & Safety Enforcement Officer Dan Tholotowsky, Building Department Inspector Matt Struve, Mayor Noel Cummings, Trustees Paul Struve and Tim Kovel. HODGKINS, IL (August 14, 2019) – [...]
Village of Deerfield Protects Residents and Firefighters with Progressive Residential Fire Sprinkler Requirements
Shown left to right: Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Protection District’s Deputy Fire Chief Ray Larson, Fire Chief Ian Kazian, Fire Marshal Brian McCarthy and Tom Lia (NIFSAB). DEERFIELD, IL (August 6, 2019) – Officials from the Village of Deerfield recently adopted the [...]
Successful Activations (Summer Edition 2019)
AUGUST 2019 Fire Sprinkler Keeps Snack Food Plant from Total Loss SOUTH BELOIT, IL (August 27) - A single fire sprinkler quickly contained a fire in a fry unit of an oven at Axium Foods on Oak Grove Avenue on [...]
Palatine Fire Department First To Receive New Challenge Coin For Reporting Successful Fire Sprinkler Activation
Left to Right: Palatine’s Inspector Randy Dowell, Fire Marshal Jay Atherton and Tom Lia. ORLAND PARK, IL (July 8, 2019) — The Illinois Fire Sprinkler Coalition, in conjunction with the Northern Illinois Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board (NIFSAB), has launched [...]
NIFSAB Donates Display to Help Students In Fire Science Technology Program Learn About Residential Fire Sprinklers
Eric Norlin, Fire Marshal with the Lincolnshire Riverwoods Fire Protection District and College of Lake County Instructor, shows the donated residential fire sprinkler display. ORLAND PARK, IL (July 1, 2019) – The Northern Illinois Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board [...]
Fire Sprinklers Prevent a Fire From Spreading At Commercial Laundry Facility
WHEELING, IL (June 15, 2019) – The Wheeling Fire Department responded to an alarm at Crothall Healthcare Laundry Systems on Hintz Road around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday. Upon arrival, they found that fire sprinklers controlled a fire inside the business. [...]
Home for Wounded Veterans Retrofit With Fire Sprinklers Featured on Designing Spaces
Pre-shoot meeting with Chad Huennekens, president, United States Alliance Fire Protection; Noah Currier, founder, Oscar Mike Foundation and Jennifer Bertrand, host, Designing Spaces. ORLAND PARK, IL (June 3, 2019) – Home fires become deadly in just two minutes [...]