There were no sprinklers inside the apartment building at 27th and Highland, where a fire on Sunday, May 11, killed five people. The building was built before sprinkler systems were required by state ...

A deadly blaze that left five people dead on Mother's Day has prompted a debate over requiring automatic sprinklers in apartment buildings in Milwaukee. Highland Court Apartments, the site of the fire ...

Maintaining healthy fire protection systems is not always top of mind for building owners or their designated facility managers – that is, until their system fails, costing them precious time, money ...

The Gillett school district in eastern Wisconsin has three school buildings. None has a sprinkler system installed to put out a fire. The buildings were constructed between 50 and 100 years ago, well ...

A Christmas morning fire jolted tenants awake in a 46-unit apartment near the Milwaukee-Greenfield border. Smoke alarms blared as firefighters pulled several people to safety. In the end, everyone ...

The inspection process for fire sprinklers in Massachusetts relies on a haphazard honor system that can fail the very people it’s meant to protect. A MassLive investigation following the July fatal ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — Months after the deadly fire at the Gabriel House assisted living facility, the city of Fall River and the operators of large buildings there are taking a closer look at ...

New York is reconsidering a decades-old proposal that would require all new homes built in the state to be equipped with automatic fire sprinkler systems regardless of the cost. An unelected panel of ...

REPLACED YEARS AGO. THIS IS A PRETTY A PRETTY MAJOR PIECE OF INFORMATION. FIRE PREVENTION EXPERT ROBERT SOLOMON, RESPONDING TO FIVE, INVESTIGATES NEW REPORTING THAT THE SPRINKLER IN THE ROOM WHERE THE ...

Regarding “As housing costs soar, builders balk at NY proposal to require fire sprinklers in new homes” (Dec, 10, 2024): A recent Post-Standard/Syracuse.com ...

Five days before a fatal blaze ripped through Gabriel House, a fire safety contractor alerted the building owner his sprinkler system had not undergone the state-mandated five-year inspection, ...