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September / October 2005 U.S. Multiple-Death Fires for 2004

U.S. Multiple-Death Fires for 2004; 2004 U.S. Fire Loss; Will your building’s fire suppression system work in an emergency?; Candle safety is the focus of this year’s Fire Prevention Week


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Contents

COVER STORY

U.S. Multiple-Death Fires for 2004
Catastrophic multiple death fires occur all too often, but do they have to? In 2004, 32 catastrophic multiple-death fires killed 152 people (34 of them children under the age of six) compared to 2003 when 35 fires killed 307 people (including the 100 deaths at the Rhode Island nightclub fire).
Stephen Badger

FEATURES

2004 U.S. Fire Loss
Residential fires accounted for 78 percent of all structure fires in 2004.
Michael J. Karter, Jr.

Pump it up
Will your building’s fire suppression system work in an emergency? It will with proper maintenance and testing.
Stuart M. Lewis

When you go out, blow out
Candle safety is the focus of this year’s Fire Prevention Week
John Nicholson

Safety in Numbers
Community is at the core of an award-winning project.
Lisa Braxton

Post Impact
The role of fireproofing in the new 7 World Trade Center.
Philip Zanghi

COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS

Buzzwords
Integrating fire alarm systems and fire pumps
Wayne D. Moore, P.E., FSFPE		 Mail Call
Letters to the editor
Firewatch
Fire destroys cold storage, fruit packing buildings
Kenneth J. Tremblay		 Outreach
People with disabilities day designated
Sharon Gamache
First Word
Fire-safe cigarettes: The time has come
James M. Shannon		 Research
The Fire Protection Research Foundation
Kathleen H. Almand
Heads Up
Protecting sloped combustible attic spaces
Russ Fleming		 Structural Ops
Applying the incident management system
Ben Klaene & Russ Sanders
In Compliance
‘It depends' and ‘I don’t know’
Chip Carson		 What's Hot
Product spotlight