While studying the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code — a standard designed to help protect people during fires by ensuring safe exits, proper detection systems and clear evacuation routes — one recent ...

From some of our earliest memories in elementary school as little kids, we all recall participating in fire drills on a periodic basis. Of course, the purpose of those fire drills was to train ...

In the February 2024 issue, I introduced the what rules – the category of rules that tell us what to install in a building, typically segmented by occupancy classification and maximum allowable ...

Residents of Maryland will soon be protected by the most up-to-date editions of two key life safety codes. The 2015 editions of NFPA 1, Fire Code and NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, are both part of the ...