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Tragedy struck a
Pemberton, New Jersey home the night of December 28, 2011, when a fire took
the life of a seven-year-old girl. The flames quickly engulfed the one-story
single-family home, as firefighters worked hard to control the blaze. Large
amounts of thick smoke made it difficult to fight the fire, forcing
firefighters out of the home as they attempted to control the fire.
Thankfully, the victim’s four older siblings were able to escape the home
and rushed to a nearby neighbor’s house for safety but they lost their
sister to this terrible tragedy. The cause of the fire is still under
investigation. Devastating tragedies like this one can be prevented. Fire
sprinklers provide added protection for our state’s most vulnerable
populations, our children.
To support our efforts to get assembly bill
A-3278 passed, please
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Completed resolutions can be sent to NJFSAB Executive Director David Kurasz
at 2 King Arthur Court, Suite 1, North Brunswick, N.J. 08902.
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RESIDENTIAL FIRE SPRINKLER CODE NATIONAL UPDATE
Please
find below a list of states that have adopted the 2009 International
Residential Code, which includes the requirement that all new one- and
two-family homes are required to have life-saving fire sprinkler
systems:
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New Hampshire
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California
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Iowa
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South Carolina
The NJFSAB would
like to congratulate the residents, lawmakers and regulatory decision
makers in the above states for recognizing the importance of
residential fire sprinklers in saving lives and property. For
more information on the status of the IRC adoption in other states,
please click
here. (The
above states are listed in date order that the 2009 IRC code was
adopted.)
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