NEWSLETTER
Kankakee Fire Department Uses America’s Favorite Food to Deliver Fire Safety to Adults and Children
Following home fire disasters that took the lives of young children, the Kankakee Fire Department deployed an age-old tactic to improve the likelihood that effective fire safety messages would get into the home – free food. Since 2017, the department [...]
Donated Standpipe Valves Will Be Used at 100 Chicago Fire Stations for Training
More than 100 donated standpipe valves were on display during a presentation at the Chicago Fire Department Quinn Fire Academy. Officers and instructors gathered at the academy to thank members of the fire sprinkler industry for the donation. The threaded [...]
Ask Your Legislators To Support (S.803) to Allow Businesses To Immediately Deduct the Full Cost of Fire Sprinkler Retrofits
Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Doug Jones (D-Ala.) introduced legislation (S. 803) to fix a provision in the 2017 tax-cut law that will allow business owners to receive immediate tax benefits when they retrofit their buildings with fire sprinklers. Before [...]
Rock Island First of Four Towns Recognized as Five-Star Fire Safe Communities
ORLAND PARK, IL (March 13, 2019) - The city of Rock Island is the first to be recognized as a Five-Star Fire Safe Community, a new program introduced by the Illinois Fire Sprinkler Coalition (IFSC). The organization has recognized more than [...]
Successful Activations (Spring Edition 2019)
MAY 2019 Fire in Apartment Building for Veterans Extinguished by a Single Fire Sprinkler HINES, IL (May 24, 2019) –A single fire sprinkler extinguished a stove-top fire in the kitchen area of a first floor unit at the Freedom Path [...]
NIFSAB Is Saddened By The Loss Of NFSA’s Past President John Viniello
John Viniello, Past President of the National Fire Sprinkler Association ORLAND PARK, IL (February 27, 2019) - NIFSAB is sad to share the news that NFSA’s Past President, John Viniello, passed away, Tuesday, February 26, 2019, two days [...]