Firestopping is an often misunderstood construction practice. This article examines what firestopping is and why it’s necessary in wall, floor, and ceiling penetrations. The bottom line is that ...

Are you really maintaining your fire alarm system? Fire alarm systems are expected to help protect people, property, and assets. But you can’t tell if they’re fully operational just by looking at them ...

Tom Parrish is the fire safety vice president of compliance and training for Telgian Engineering & Consulting. Parrish is also the newly elected president of the National Automatic Fire Alarm ...

A recently introduced foam system for extinguishing rim seal fires in floating-roof oil storage tanks demonstrated levels of fire control and extinguishment and burnback resistance the same as or ...

The importance of implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that are specifically written for the chemical processing industry Implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that ...