NFPA Journal - October 2016 Home Fire Sprinkler Special Issue - 76

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NURSING HOME
SPRINKLER RETROFIT

CAN HEALTH CARE
CODES JUST GET ALONG?

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A FIRE MARSHAL GETS
A FIRE OF HER OWN

PPE ISSUES IN THE
WAKE OF EBOLA

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Tactics 2.0

RESILIENCE

New research prompts the fire service to
reconsider how it fights residential fires

A big-picture look at one of the most compelling concepts in
safety and emergency preparation, and the role codes + standards
can play in making resilience happen. By Jesse Roman

A NEW STANDARD
ON DUST HAZARDS

IN PERSPECTIVES:
POWER TO THE PATIENTS

+
July/August 2014
March/April 2015

A BIGGER + BETTER
CONFERENCE PREVIEW

FIGHTING OIL +
GAS FIELD FIRES

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's post-Hurricane
Sandy improvements have included concrete lining and waterproofing operations of train tunnels beneath New York City.

2013 FIREFIGHTER
INJURIES REPORT

WHEN FIRE
IS A WEAPON

CALIFORNIA'S HOME FIRE
SPRINKLER SUCCESS

legged, millimeter-long aquatic invertebrate can survive being frozen at minus 328 degrees
Fahrenheit and heated to more than 300 degrees Fahrenheit. It can survive in oxygendepleted water by stretching its body to maximize oxygen absorption. It can repair its own
DNA to survive radiation levels 1,000 times higher than what other animals can withstand.
It can dial down its metabolic activity, curl into a near-lifeless ball, and live in suspended
animation for a decade or more. Dehydrated tardigrades exposed for 10 days to the harsh
vacuum and deadly solar radiation of outer space have returned to life within 30 minutes of
being plopped back into water. ¶ The tardigrade's resiliency-its ability to respond, withstand, adapt, and quickly recover-allows it to survive events that would kill other creatures.
There is no animal on earth more resilient, save perhaps humans.
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Photograph: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYC)

Data
Driven

MARCH/APRIL 2015

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OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION

RRESILIENCE

OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION

What it is, what it looks like, and how NFPA
codes + standards are shaping its evolution

OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION

2013 LARGE-LOSS
FIRES REPORT

As in the animal kingdom, human resilience is often
installing power redundancies in hospitals or airports, or
a matter of life and death. Throughout history, societies
even building stronger community bonds in neighborlacking resilience suffered terrible ends; people died, while
hoods. Since 2010, the federal government has focused on
cities and civilizations collapsed and faded away. According
resiliency as a key concept to national security and combatto Stephen Flynn, the founding director of the Center for
ing the effects of climate change.
Resilience Studies at Northeastern University, modernity
Several reports have identified the importance of codes
has done nothing to change this fact of life.
and standards for bolstering
resiliency
efforts. "OrganizaSPRINKLER
ADVOCATES
"It will be the most resilient communities, companies,
tions such as NFPA have
critical
role to
play in building
ONaTHE
FRONT
LINES
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and countries that will prosper in the
21st2014
century-those
resilience into communinfpa.org/resilience
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and brittle,2014
will end up www.nfpajournal.org
ties and systems," Flynn
Read more on the concept of
isolated and will fail in the current global environment,"
said. "While researchers
resilience, including:
said Flynn. "There is no risk-free place on the planet. People
can identify the 'what' and
"Disaster Resiliency and NFPA
will live, invest, and gravitate to places that are more resil'how' to make our societies
Codes and Standards," a new
report by the Fire Protection
ient and flee those that are not. It is crucial as a country to
more resilient, practical inResearch Foundation;
get this right."
novations that draw on the
"The National Security
Viewed through a hazards and security lens, resilience
latest knowledge, tools, and
Strategy of the United States
can be defined as the ability to withstand a disruption, blunt technologies are unlikely to
of America," from 2010;
the impact, recover quickly, and adapt to emerge stronger
see early and wide adopThe Community Disaster
Resilience project conducted
and better prepared than before. It isInformation
achieved on both
andathe tion unless they are quickly
by the National Institute of
small scale, as in a local business or abrave
hospital,
and
on a
embedded into codes and
new
world
Standards and Technology;
large scale, such as building resiliency
an urban
transit
standards."
ofinto
smart
firefighting
A case study on how MassPort
system, a regional power grid, a city, or even a nation. ResilOver the last year, NFPA
plans to make Boston's seaport
iency can mean erecting better levees in New Orleans,
has considered the role it
and airport storm-resilient.

AS AN EXAMPLE OF RESILIENCY, it's tough to beat the tardigrade. The eight-

GETTING SNOWED
IN BOSTON

COVER STORY
RESILIENCY

Recovery begins in the Breezy Point neighborhood
of Queens, New York, ravaged by flood and fire
during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

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