The most effective means of combating a fire in a residential occupancy is a properly designed, installed, and maintained fire sprinkler system. These systems use automatic fire sprinklers that ...

On Dec. 4, a fire broke out in a senior living facility in Fort Collins. As the fire grew, two firefighting sentries that had sat quietly by for years went into action and extinguished the fire before ...

On August 22, a fire broke out in a Bellevue apartment that completely destroyed 21 units and displaced residents from more than four dozen units in the complex. It took 88 medical, support and fire ...

Mayor Sarah Smith Hymes and council members Amy Phillips, Tamra Underwood and Russell “RJ” Andrade voted for it. The current code only requires residential buildings of over 6,000 square feet to have ...

Q: What are the International Code Council rules for the monitoring of sprinkler systems? A: Under the International Building/Fire Codes, all code-required sprinkler systems must meet the following ...

Hey all, for a while now I've been wanting to put some sort of automatic sprinkler system around my cabin in Northern California to protect it from wildfire. Wildfires in the area are becoming an ...