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) – Establishing an unparalleled commitment to public safety, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Hodgkins, IL unanimously approved an update of […]
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 International Code Council (ICC) 2018 edition in its entirety. With local amendments and nothing removed, this will require fire sprinklers in […]
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 Tuesday, August 27 at 8:15p.m.
“We had the fire under control in about 15 minutes and the fire completely out in 20 minutes,” said
South Beloit […]
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 the Save-A-Day Challenge Coin campaign to recognize fire departments and districts that report successful fire sprinkler activations. Each fire department that reports an […]