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23	|	Wildfire
		
Action Now
The record-setting 2020 wildfire season
is no anomaly. When will we snap out
of our collective complacency?
By Michele Steinberg

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NFPA 101 The life safety considerations
of alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
By Kristin Bigda

NFPA 13 Sprinkler protection for bulk
quantities of alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
By Brian O'Connor

NFPA 72 Code requirements for pathway
survivability remain a hot topic.
By Wayne Moore

NFPA 70+70E Addressing issues around
GFCI requirements in dwelling units.
By Derek Vigstol
Xchange A sampling of the codes-andstandards conversations happening in
NFPA's online community.

Firewatch
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JOURNAL ONLINE
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episode about the
research into, and
new standard on, gas
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52	|	Research
		
Tower of Babel
An ambitious new effort is underway
to standardize the collection and
interpretation of global fire data.
By Birgitte Messerschmidt

Read the 2020 Fire
Protection Research
Foundation report on
gas detector location
analysis.

59	|	Outreach

Faces of Fire

nfpa.org/dispatches

A new campaign uses powerful
personal stories to bring awareness to
the consequences of electrical hazards.
By Lorraine Carli

Read the full report
on volunteer
firefighter retention,
produced by the
National Volunteer
Fire Council.
Listen to an NFPA
Journal Podcast on
the emergency
medical services
shortage in rural
America.

80	|	Looking Back
A 1923 blaze at the Dunning Hospital
for the Insane in Illinois remains
one the deadliest hospital fires in the
nation's history.
By Caitlin Walker

nfpa.org/
wildfirecrisis

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Read key
findings from
California's Fourth
Climate Change
Assessment.
Listen to experts
in a range of fields
discuss solutions
to the wildfire crisis
on the NFPA Journal
Podcast.

A collection of fire incidents in an assortment
of occupancies from across the United
States, compiled by NFPA's Research group.

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Cause for
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A wide-ranging look at the historic
2020 wildfire season

Cause for
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A wide-ranging look at the historic
2020 wildfire season

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