CCFS Intro Pamphlet

Fire Wise Campus Brochure

Inside CCFS is an introduction to our leadership, sponsors and activities

7 Steps to Reducing False Fire Alarms

Faculty and Staff: Are They Prepared for Fire?, Michelle Hermann, University Business Magazine Nov/Dec 2009

Big Data Service On-Campus, discusses CCFS efforts to improve data collection for on-campus fires. by Paul D. Martin, President.  Reprinted from Nov/Dec NFPA Journal

Campus Fires: Prevent to Protect, University Business Magazine, Nov/Dec 2009 

CCFS receives $460K grant to continue its Firewise Campus Training Program, and an online nationwide campus fire reporting program, April 2008

Center for Campus Fire Safety Lends Support to NBFAA

CFSI First Responders, November 2009

Final HEOA Rules Expand Universities’ Responsibilities, November 3, 2009

Fire Safety on College Campuses NFPA Journal, Letter from NFPA President James M. Shannon, September/October 2008

Fire Safety on College Campuses NFPA Journal, September/October 2008

Inside the Center for Campus Fire Safety, July/August 2008

Kennedy announces $460,000 in Federal Funding to Center for Campus Fire Safety, May 2008

More than 165 fire safety experts nationwide will gather in Washington DC to develop a strategy for national fire loss prevention, March 2008

USFA announces a Smoking and Home Fires Campaign, January 2008

Chapter 10 Means of Egress, Section 1004 - Occupant Load

Chapter 10 Means of Egress Section 1004 - Occupant Load

Chapter 14 — Fire Safety During Construction And Demolition Section 1408 Owner’s Responsibility For Fire Protection

Chapter 14 Fire Safety During Construction and Demolition Section 1408

Chapter 14 Fire Safety During Construction and Demolition

Chapter 24 of the International Fire Code Tents and Air Supported Structures

Chapter 27 Hazardous Materials – General Provisions

CHAPTER 3404 Container and Portable Tank Storage

Chapter 38 Liquefied Petroleum Gases

Chapter 4 Emergency Planning and Preparedness

Chapter 5 Fire Service Features Section 503 Fire Apparatus Access Roads

Chapter 5 Fire Service Features

Chapter 7 Fire - Resistance – Rated Construction

Chapter 8 Interior Finish, Decorative Materials and Furnishings Section 806 and Section 807

Chapter 8 of the IFC and Commentary Interior Finish, Decorative Materials and Furnishings

Chapter 9 Fire Protection Systems

Chapter 9 Fire Protection Systems

Section 2403 Temporary Tents, Canopies and Membrane Structures

Section 307 Open Burning and Recreational Fires

Section 308 Open Flames

Section 406 Employee Training and Response Procedures

Section 703 Fire-resistance-rated construction

Section 805 Decorations and Trim

Occupancy: Chapter 6

10.15 Special Outdoor Events, Carnivals, and Fairs

12.4.1 Life Safety Evaluation

20.1.5.6 Crowd Managers

Chapter 11 Fire Code Electrical Fire Safety

Chapter 20 Day Care Occupancies Fire Safety

Chapter 20 deals with occupancy fire safety requirements; evacuation & egress drills, furnishings, & inspections

NFPA 1 Fire Code Chapter 20 Assembly Occupancy

NFPA 1 Fire Code Chapter 20 Health Care

NFPA 1 Fire Code Chapter 20

NFPA 1 Uniform Fire Code

Tents: Review of basic tent requirements

Civil disturbances can result from celebrations on campus

Carbon monoxide code revised to include campus buildings and dorms

Codes and standards review

Why use FPE's

Campus Safety Campaign: Alcohol & Fire Safety, August 2009

Campus Safety Campaign: Building Fire Safety Features, August 2008

Campus Safety Campaign: Candle Fire Safety Features, August 2008

Campus Safety Campaign: How Fire Extinguishers Work, August 2008

Campus Safety Campaign: Smoking and Fire Safety, August 2008

Advocating for fire safety and taking charge in our own domain

An open letter

Building code proposed change to add language to section 101.3

Code enforcement

Codes process

Combustible waste accumulation problem abundant in the trash room

Committees reaching out to community officials to get the fire safety message out to all students

Disabled occupants and keeping them safe

Electrical fires on the rise in student housing

Emergency notification on the college campus

Evacuation drills

Fire doors

Fire, explosion, electrical shock & carbon monoxide poisoning hazard!

Fires involving cooking equipment constitute 75% of all fires in campus housing

Getting the message out Campus Fire Safety Month

Life-safety inspections and turning them into a vehicles of change

Making way for the fire department

Managing safety practices and summer activities on campus

RA's and their important role in speaking fire safety to the students

Single family homes and making life safety a priority

Training and equipping college safety officials and staff with the necessary tools to act -- FOLLOWUP

Training and equipping college safety officials and staff with the necessary tools to act

 State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, full text of Title XIV

A Resolution of The Center for Campus Fire Safety Supporting the Campus Fire Safety Right to Know Act, March 2007

A Resolution of The Center for Campus Fire Safety Supporting the Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act, March 2007

H. RES. 95 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives supporting the goals and ideals of Campus Fire Safety Month, January 2007

Life safety and federal funding

President signs Higher Education Opportunity Act, August 2008

S. 354 To provide for disclosure of fire safety standards and measures with respect to campus buildings, and for other purposes, January 2007

S. 582 Sprinker Incentive Act - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation, February 2007

S. RES. 105 Designating September 2007 as ‘‘Campus Fire Safety Month’’, MARCH 2007

Cooking 101

Fatal Fire at SUNY Plattsburg brings change

Fatal fire at SUNY Plattsburgh starts fire safety campaign to prevent further tragedy

Fire prevention and fire plans

Fire prevention messages during the winter season

Fire safety awareness among parents and their college-bound kids

Fire safety messages for students during and around moving-in day

Fraternities and Sprinklers: Part 1 of a 2 Part Series

Fraternities and Sprinklers: Part 2 of a 2 Part series

Fraternity Activity = Fire Department Activity

Inspection, testing and maintenance of fire protection equipment during the summer months

Off-Campus definitions vary from town to town

Talking about campus fire safety with landlords

Talking about campus fire safety with school officials

Optimizing Fire Alarm Notification for High Risk Groups Research Project Waking effectiveness of alarms (auditory, visual and tactile) for the alcohol impaired, June 2007

University Housing Fires ... A special report examining the causes and characteristics of fires in college and university residential buildings, November 2009.

Automatic fire sprinkler system operation

Dartmouth College Fraternity Damaged By Blaze

Fire sprinkler system in your chapter house, merits

Fire sprinkler systems history and major types available for residential

Greek housing property owners and the factors that impact them

Holiday Season Safety in Fraternity/Sorority & University Housing

Inspection, testing, and maintenance of your fire sprinkler system

Life Safety: Sprinkler legislation and fraternal support

Property premium discounts for installed sprinkler system

Sprinkler design standards and choosing the optimum system for your property

Sprinkler Requirements

What if you are not the owenr of the property and only a tenant?

Building a Better Smoke Alarm -- Proposed Revisions to NFPA 72®, National Fire Alarm Code® Could Save Lives By Dr. David Albert, Lifetone Technology and Vic Humm PE, Vic Humm and Associates

Doors: Horizontal and Vertical Sliding and Rolling Fire Doors, by Pablo Davis

Fire Protection Engineers: Using Science and Technology to Make the College Campus Safe from Fire, by SFPE

Inspection for Fire-Rated Door Assembies by Keith Pardoe, DAHC, CDC/CDT and William Johnson, August 2009

Paperless inspections

Sensors: Why Four Sensors are Better Than Two, by System Sensor

Software to save lives, by Recovery Planner

Trash: On campus taking out the trash is not as simple as it is at home

Wastebaskets and the various types being used at universities

Air conditioning safety tips

Carbon monoxide safety tips

Electrical safety awareness

Electrical safety for dorms and off-campus

Electrical Safety

Escape plans

Getting Ready for Students

Holidays and fire safety tips

Office fire safety tips

Preventing cooking fires

Questions for your potential landlord

Residential Pool and Spa Safety

Safe heating practices

Setting up your new living space safety

Smoke alarms for the home

Smoke Alarms: The Science Behind Detection

Space heaters safety tips

UL Field Sample Testing of Automatic Sprinklers

A Message from the Minger Foundation

Carbon Monoxide - Kidde Save a Life Program, 2010

Smoke Detection - Kidde Save a Life Program, 2010

Fire prevention and safety training at University of Iowa Resident Assistant’s (RA) Fire Academy