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Home » Federal Grant to Help Coalition Promote Home Fire Sprinklers

Federal Grant to Help Coalition Promote Home Fire Sprinklers

September 11, 2017
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The nonprofit Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition has been awarded a Fire Prevention and Safety Grant, funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The grant will underwrite a multifaceted national education program aimed at increasing home fire sprinkler installation in new homes.

For decades, homes have had the biggest share of the U.S. fire problem.

Each day, an average of seven people die in home fires. Fifty-nine percent of firefighter fatalities at structure fires are in one- and two-family homes, according to the NFPA.

“Home fires remain a national disaster, both for residents and first responders, and that loss has been staggering for too long,” said HFSC President Lorraine Carli. “Home fire sprinklers save lives, but too few new homes are built with them. The grant makes it possible for HFSC to provide local decision-makers with a perceptive approach that will directly increase the number of homes protected by fire sprinklers.”

HFSC will lead the comprehensive program, partnering the fire service and local authorities having jurisdiction with homebuilders, developers and planning/zoning boards in more than 100 markets. The fire service and AHJs will be equipped with resources to communicate the need for fire sprinklers in new home developments planned by developers and considered by the local boards.

Trade-ups – incentives offered by local officials in exchange for installing fire sprinklers – are the centerpiece of this new program.

“Although trade-ups are working well in some jurisdictions, the concept is still new to most fire departments and AHJs,” Carli said. “Our program will educate about the value of using trade-ups to achieve community risk reduction. We will supply free resources fire departments can use in any community to improve awareness and increase sprinkler installation.”

HFSC is a educational 501(c)(3) charitable organization and the leading resource for independent, noncommercial information about residential fire sprinklers. For more information about HFSC and residential fire sprinkler systems, visit homefiresprinkler.org.

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