Recent amendments to the Maryland State Fire Prevention Code have eliminated the requirement to retrofit existing high-rise residential buildings with automatic fire sprinkler systems, a deeply ...

BYU professor Rob Sowby teaches and studies environmental engineering, urban water infrastructure and sustainability. He has ...

About 220 residential buildings in Milwaukee — comprising 14,595 housing units — are exempt from the city's requirement to have sprinkler systems.

CAL FIRE says they are responding to a residential structure fire in South Monterey County on Thursday.

Fire Tech Residential Sprinklers was founded 17 years ago because there was a need in the community for a company to help educate, install and upgrade residential fire sprinkler systems.

Residential fire sprinklers can hugely reduce the risk of death and property damage. They were put to the test with live fire demonstrations in a Commerce City, Colorado home.

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 ...

“This fire reminds us that all high-rise buildings, especially residential occupancies, need fire sprinklers, especially on this day of our release being the 40-year anniversary of the MGM Grand ...

But he said a new initiative by state Fire Marshal Larry Matkaitis to update state standards could mean that residential fire sprinklers could be required in municipalities and fire districts ...

Automatic residential fire sprinkler systems, designed and installed in accordance with NFPA 13D, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in One- and Two-Family Dwellings and ...

The Delaware Fire Sprinkler Coalition promotes including residential fire sprinkler systems in new-construction single-family homes.