NFPA Calls for Immediate Meeting to Address Concerns about Recent Nightclub Fires
The NFPA has called upon its Technical Committee on Assembly Occupancies to convene for an immediate review of the safety issues relevant to public assembly buildings.
The NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) has called upon its Technical Committee on Assembly Occupancies to convene in Quincy, MA, for an immediate review of the safety issues relevant to public assembly buildings. The meeting of the 30-person committee will be held as soon as possible.
At issue are several core components of a total system of building safety that have come to light following two deadly nightclub incidents. The first was in Chicago, in which 21 patrons were killed in a crowd crush on February 17th. The second incident occurred on February 20th, when a fast-spreading fire in a West Warwick, RI, nightclub killed 97 occupants.