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 the law’s enactment, fire sprinkler retrofits in commercial buildings would be written off over a 39-year period. This exceedingly long recovery was a […]
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 100 communities in Illinois as fire safe communities for their upgraded codes that require fire sprinklers in all new construction including single-family […]
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 Hines apartments at 5000 S. 5th Avenue.
The occupant told firefighters that she was warming up grease in a pan when the grease caught fire. […]
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 before his 77th birthday. While John served as NFSA president for 28 years, from 1984-2012, he was a major supporter of NIFSAB’s work.
According to […]