10/27/09 - A Fire Risk That Clears Security (NY Times)

With more electronic devices on board, airlines are urging caution in case batteries catch fire.

9/14/09 - Fires caused more than $15.5 billion in direct property loss in 2008

Fire departments responded to an estimated 1.5 million fires in 2008. These fires resulted in 3,320 civilian fire fatalities, 16,705 civilian fire injuries and an estimated $15.5 billion in direct property loss.9/11/09 - Forty percent of all home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms

Four of every ten home fire deaths resulted from fires with no smoke alarms in 2003-2006, according to a new report Smoke Alarms in U.S. Home Fires , (PDF, 434 KB) released today by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).

1/8/09 - NFPA urges increased fire safety this winter

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) today urged Americans to take extra fire safety precautions this winter in the wake of several multiple fatality fires over the past few weeks that were highlighted in a press event held by the United States Fire Administration (USFA) in Washington, DC.

11/17/08 - Thanksgiving is top day for home cooking fires

In 2006, Thanksgiving Day topped the charts once again as the peak day for home cooking fires. According to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports,

10/29/08 - Panel to Review Arson Claims in Deadly 1977 Kentucky Fire

More than three decades after a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killed 165 people, Gov. Steve Beshear appointed a panel on Tuesday to review assertions that arson may have been to blame.

10/10/08 - Survey finds concerns about economy may increase incidence of home fires

Fire Prevention Week Survey shows nearly half of Americans planning to use alternative heating sources this winter

10/6/08 - NFPA announces coordinated campaign to increase number of homes protected by sprinklers

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) announced today it will coordinate a campaign to increase the number of homes protected by sprinklers. This is the second major fire safety campaign NFPA has undertaken recently.

9/20/08 - Effort to Ease Skyscraper Codes Fails (NY Times)

The nation’s largest official building code group on Saturday rebuffed a push by a federal agency and real estate developers to weaken skyscraper code enhancements adopted last year in response to the World Trade Center attack.

9/8/08 - Agency Fights Building Code Born of 9/11 (NY Times)

The General Services Administration has joined some of the nation’s biggest landlords in trying to repeal stronger safety requirements for new skyscrapers that were added to the country’s most widely used building code last year, arguing that they would be too expensive to meet.

8/21/08 - Inquiry Lays Out Chain of Failures in High-Rise Fire (NY Times)

Contractors tearing down the contaminated former Deutsche Bank building in Lower Manhattan never had a formal demolition permit, even though they were undertaking one of the most complicated efforts ever to dismantle a skyscraper

8/17/08 - Prosecutors Said to Consider Charging City in Fire (NY Times)

The Manhattan district attorney believes that negligence by city agencies contributed to the Deutsche Bank building fire of the summer of 2007.

12/6/07 - Updated Fire Code Is Offered to Mesh With Revised Building Rules (New York Times)

New York City fire officials have prepared a proposed updated fire code that reflects a number of recent emergencies in the first major revision of the document in nearly a century.

New York Fire Department Press Release
Proposed Fire Code