We’ve not had a significant impact on preventable fires with our current methodologies. To paraphrase a popular management mantra for change these days, “What got you here, won’t get you there.”
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The Year in Review: Top 10 Most Viewed Posts
Over the course of the last year, I’ve attempted to provide you—the readers of this blog—with a wide variety of subjects for you consideration and thought. So here are the ten most viewed posts for 2013.
Read More »Let’s Get Serious About Preventing Kitchen Fires, Shall We?
Many photos and videos of firefighters and officers conducting public education sessions, PSAs, and fire apparatus: the usual stuff that we’ve done for many years. But what has been the impact of all that time and effort? Are we really achieving the meaningful outcome we all desire?
Read More »What will it take to get HEHLT on every electric stove top in the USA?
Make sure it really works? Are they serious? This is just some of what's been happening while NFPA and its research partners examine "mitigation technologies"...people continue to be killed and injured and property continues to be destroyed because of food-on-the-stove fires that CAN be prevented through the installation of HEHLT.
Read More »Stopping Food-on-the-Stove Fires with a Team Approach
Many developers and builders may not be aware that they can obtain up to 5 DCA Websitepoints—as part of their Development Design Criteria—when they include HEHLT on the electric ranges for their project.
Read More »Food-on-Stove Fire Needlessly Claims Another Victim
See how Union City, GA, the Department of Defense, a growing number of colleges and universities, and more are eliminating FOS fires using HEHLT!
Read More »The Finale: Let’s Put a “Lid” on Cooking Fires, Part IV
Consider this: when a fire sprinkler is “called upon” to do its job it means a fire has started. After the sprinkler does its job the owner or occupant still has a clean up and restoration problem, albeit MUCH smaller than if the sprinkler had not been present. With HEHLT installed on the stove top, the owner or occupant has significantly reduced the potential for a fire to start in the kitchen.
Read More »Let’s Put A “Lid” on Cooking Fires: Part III
In the Union City case, it took approximately 60 days to get from the first meeting—involving the Fire Department leadership, the Mayor, and City Council—to the adoption of the city-wide ordinance requiring the installation of HEHLT on all electric-coil cooking devices located in all tax-supported housing, apartments, triplexes, residential board and care occupancies, small nursing homes, convalescent homes, assisted-living occupancies within the Union City.
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