Dispatches Ecosystem A SURVEY OF RECENT EVENTS USING THE NFPA FIRE & LIFE SAFETY ECOSYSTEM™ NFPA.ORG/ECOSYSTEM Invisible Threat DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF CURRENT CODES NFPA starts development of a new standard to outline installation requirements for gas detection systems. For more, see page 54. Boy or Girl or Disaster? ECOSYSTEM SUCCESS A gender-reveal party involving pyrotechnics in California sparks a wildfire that torches over 20,000 acres of land and leaves INFORMED one wildland firefighter dead. It's not the first time a genderPUBLIC reveal event has turned deadly. ECOSYSTEM FAIL Inspection Omission CODE COMPLIANCE Fire department officials in Los Angeles say they have no record of inspecting Smoke Tokes, a cannabis-related business that was the site of a May 16 fire that severely burned 11 LA firefighters. ECOSYSTEM FAIL Wildfire Smarts Amid a historic wildfire season, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill enacting stricter wildfire safety requirements for the zone extending five GOVERNMENT feet away from homes-a common area RESPONSIBILITY for home ignition to start. ECOSYSTEM SUCCESS TM GETT Y IMAGES © 2020 NFPA Sparky® is a trademark of NFPA® New Vigilance Safely Simmering NFPA notches another successful Fire Prevention Week in October, with its theme of fire safety in the kitchen. INFORMED ECOSYSTEM SUCCESS PUBLIC CODE COMPLIANCE Las Vegas city officials vow to ramp up fire safety inspections at apartment buildings after six people died in an apartment complex fire in 2019. ECOSYSTEM SUCCESS N F PA . O R G / J O U R N A L * NFPA JOURNAL Dispatches_11.20 DCS FINAL 10.30.20.indd 15 | 15 10/30/20 4:44 PMhttp://www.NFPA.ORG/ECOSYSTEM http://nfpa.org/journal