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>>in a flash EDUCATION + TRAINING IN BRIEF Sustainable Building Symposium Slated for November The Fire Protection Research Foundation will host the Fire Safety Design and Sustainable Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities Symposium on November 7–8 in Chicago. The event brings the fire protection and architectural communities together to discuss topics and ideas for sustainable fire safety design. Architects, engineers, researchers, and members of the sustainability community will offer their insight while weighing in on life cycle sustainability of structures. For more information on the event, visit nfpa.org/sustainable_buildings. Third Annual Electric Vehicle Summit Scheduled for Motor City NFPA and SAE International will co-host the third annual Electric Vehicle (EV) Safety Standards Summit on October 18 in Detroit. The event will address safety issues related to codes and standards, noting that the number of EVs is increasing on roadways worldwide. “Stakeholders have made significant progress in addressing safety issues and making improvements based on discussion points of the two previous summits, but there is still more work to be done,” said Christian Dubay, NFPA vice president of codes and standards, and chief engineer. “The collaborative efforts expected at this year’s forum and the follow-up from it will once again move the needle in the direction of safer implementation of electrical vehicles.” For more information and to register, visit evsafetytraining.org/summit. Fire Safety Students Receive Scholarships NFPA’s Fire Safety Educational Memorial Fund Committee recently awarded scholarships to students exhibiting academic excellence in fire, rescue, life safety, and engineering. Daniel Akerman, a 16-year member of the fire service, received the George D. Miller Scholarship, which is awarded to students in fire service or public administration programs. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in the Strategic Communication and Leadership Program at the University of West Florida. New Conference Targets Euro Risk Market SOME OF NFPA’S most knowledgeable experts will be featured at the 2012 NFPA EuroCon, which will be held November 12–14 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The new conference, a joint venture between NFPA and Marsh Risk Consulting Worldwide, offers more than 25 education sessions in three tracks: fire and life safety, property protection, and property risk management. The sessions will be led by subject matter experts, including NFPA staff, code committee members, and industry experts from across Europe, who will help you stay up-to-date on the most current fire protection and safety standards. The conference is specifically focused on providing attendees with information to help them safeguard lives and reduce property loss. “Marsh came to us and said, ‘We think we have a better way for NFPA to perform training in Europe,’” says William Mello, director of sales for NFPA, on how the innovative new event was conceived. “Marsh provides those additional ‘feet on the street’ that can really help support our international strategy, and we saw that partnership as a great way to get NFPA codes and experts in front of a European audience.” “NFPA is, for me and for companies, and brokers— “anyone in this business who deals with fire safety and protection.” The event will be held at the Amsterdam Passenger Terminal, a conference facility near the city center. “The best thing you’ll get at this conference is that one-to-one interaction with NFPA experts—there’s no substitute for that kind of everybody, the global standard,” says Tom de Nooij, a senior consultant for Marsh Risk Consulting. “Its codes and standards are constantly being updated, which means it’s information you can use confidently.” He says the audience for the conference includes contractors, risk managers, risk insurers, insurance access, or for what you can learn in that kind of setting,” says Mello. “You’ll come away really understanding how we do what we do at NFPA and how it applies to your job, and you’ll have a clearer sense of what’s new in emerging industry trends.” For information and to register, visit nfpa.eu. Documenting Cocoanut Grove New NFPA project seeks information and artifacts related to 1942 Boston fire Seventy yearS ago this november, a fire ripped through Boston’s Cocoanut grove nightclub on a night when it was packed to capacity. More than 490 people perished in the blaze, which remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history. the cause is still a mystery. to help document the blaze and its aftermath, nFPa has formed the Cocoanut grove Coalition, a consortium of archivists, historians, and others that will share their knowledge and materials related to the fire. the coalition’s mission is twofold: to develop a website that will catalog existing information on the event for the public, and to serve as a point of contact for anyone who may have related documents, images, or artifacts to further the coalition’s fact-finding efforts. nFPa plans to launch the new website in november to commemorate the fire’s 70th anniversary. nFPa members can share their Cocoanut grove artifacts, insights, and other information by contacting nFPa librarian Sue Marsh at library@nfpa.org. —Fred Durso, Jr. C O C O A N U T GROVE 16 NFPA JOURNAL SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 Illustration: Dave Yount/NFPA http://www.nfpa.org/sustainable_buildings http://www.nfpa.eu http://www.evsafetytraining.org/summit

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NFPA Journal - September/October 2012

NFPA Journal - September/October 2012
Contents
First Word
Mail Call
In a Flash
Perspectives
Firewatch
Research
Heads Up
Structural Ops
In Compliance
Buzzwords
Outreach
Electrical Safety
Wildfire Watch
Lessons of Comayagua
After Waldo Canyon
Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2011
Fire Loss in the United States in 2011
Section Spotlight
Research + Analysis
What’s Hot
Looking Back

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