NFPA Journal explores how bigger more aggressive fires are changing how the fire service operates

January 15, 2015 – The latest issue of the NFPA Journal®, the official magazine for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), explores how a trend towards bigger, more aggressive fires and new research is changing how the fire service fights residential fires. 

Also featured in this issue:

• Health Codes – Examines the complex layers of health care regulations, which can create friction with code use and impact hospital operations.
• Sprinkler systems in nursing homes – A look at the planning and execution process for installing new sprinkler systems in nursing homes and how early efforts in sprinkler retrofit projects will help save patients’ lives.
• Protecting first responders from Ebola – A discussion with personal protective equipment (PPE) expert William Haskell, as he talks about his efforts to keep first responders safe while handling biological disease outbreaks, including the recent Ebola outbreak, and efforts to revise NFPA 1999, Protective Clothing for Emergency Medical Operations.  

Read the latest digital version of the January/February 2015 NFPA Journal with hyperlinked content from the print version. The new NFPA Journal mobile app is available through the Apple App Store.

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