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GOT YOUR APP YET? Get the new NFPA Journal app at nfpa.org/journalapp SUMMER FUN Adapt That Tune! What happens when classic rock meets fire and life safety? You tell us. AS PART OF HIS FEATURE on cooking fires in this issue [“Front Burner,” page 58], Journal staff writer Fred Durso, Jr., wrote a sidebar that he titled “Come On Baby, Mitigate My Fire.” That inspired bit of work, a riff on the title of the classic tune by The Doors, just begs for more. At least we think it might. To wit: “Products of Combustion on the Water,” Deep Purple “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (But Don’t Rub Them),” The Platters “Disco Conflagration,” The Trammps You get the idea. Now we want yours. Send us your best fire- and life-safety variations on the titles of classic pop tunes, along with the original artists, and we’ll consider them for publication in the September/ October issue of Journal. Be sure to include your name, title, company or institution, and location. Email your submissions to journalmail@nfpa.org. Submission deadline is August 12. Rock on. HOME FIRE SPRINKLERS Faces of Fire PSA receives Emmy Nomination Plus, a call for nominations for the Bringing Safety Home Award A public service Announcement created for nFpA’s Faces of Fire campaign was recently nominated for a southeast regional emmy Award. the campaign is a component of nFpA’s Fire sprinkler initiative that uses testimony of individuals affected by fire to promote sprinkler systems in one- and two-family homes. Highlighting princella lee bridges and produced by steven minichiello (both are pictured below), the video tells the story of bridges, who suffered burns on nearly half her body in a house fire in 1992 and is now an advocate for home fire sprinklers. the psA was one of six finalists in the “television spot Announcement excellence— community/psA” category. the video did not win, but the opportunity to spread the fire sprinkler message to a large audience was award enough, says minichiello, who joined bridges at the awards ceremony in Atlanta in June. “the happiness princella showed was over the top,” minichiello says. Additional Faces of Fire videos can be viewed at firesprinklerinitiative.org. Call for Nominations nFpA, the Home Fire sprinkler coalition (HFsc), and the international Association of Fire chiefs are seeking nominations for the bringing safety Home Award. recognizing outstanding fire chiefs, the award aims to promote home fire sprinklers throughout the united states. the recipient will be selected from nominees using nFpA and HFsc educational materials on sprinkler installation. nominations will be accepted through July 19. visit firesprinklerinitiative.org/ safetyaward. Firewise Communities Program names regional advisor Patti Maguire has been named the Firewise advisor for the Firewise® Communities Program Southwest 2 Region to help expand NFPA’s community wildfire safety activities. Maguire joins the program’s five existing regional advisors and will oversee Firewise activities in communities in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. She will assist sites that are new to the Firewise program and support the ongoing work of existing sites, in coordination with state forestry leadership. Maguire’s background includes wildfire prevention and forest health, and she has worked as a wildland firefighter for the USDA Forest Service and as a park ranger for the Bureau of Land Management. As a member of the USDA Forest Service Wildfire Prevention and Education Team, Maguire has traveled through the West and Great Plains states on interagency teams to develop intensive public awareness campaigns in communities experiencing extreme wildfire conditions. NFPA names Donald Bliss vice president of Field Operations Donald P. Bliss has been appointed NFPA’s vice president of Field Operations. He will oversee the organization’s International Division, Government Affairs Division, and Regional Operations. Bliss, of Hampton, New Hampshire, has been a part of the fire service since 1970. He has served as director of the University of Connecticut Fire Department, as the fire chief and town emergency management director for Salem, New Hampshire, and as New Hampshire’s State Fire Marshal and state homeland security director. Bliss was president and chief operating officer of the nonprofit National Infrastructure Institute in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was a senior public safety consultant with Municipal Resources, Inc. He previously served on the NFPA Standards Council, as well as on NFPA’s Board of Directors from 2003 to 2009. Bliss has been involved in numerous NFPA panels and committees. Photographs: Top, Shutterstock; above, NFPA. JULY/AUGUST 2013 NFPA JOURNAL 13 http://www.nfpa.org/journalapp http://www.nfpa.org/journalapp http://www.firesprinklerinitiative.org http://www.firesprinklerinitiative.org/safetyaward http://www.firesprinklerinitiative.org/safetyaward

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NFPA Journal - July/August 2013

NFPA Journal - July/August 2013
Contents
First Word
In a Flash
Perspectives
Firewatch
Research
Heads Up
Structural Ops
In Compliance
Buzzwords
Outreach
Electrical Safety
Wildfire Watch
Loud + Clear
Allied in Safety
Front Burner
Firefighter Fatalities in the United States, 2012
Fire Analysis + Research
Section Spotlight
What’s Hot
Looking Back

NFPA Journal - July/August 2013