People can be good, bad and careless. As these stories attest, provisions for fire safety need your continued support.

This month, questions range from fire pump sizing and protection, to placement level of in-rack sprinklers, to friction loss on check valves.

Key advantages include reduced corrosion and failure, and quicker dousing of a fire.

Study after study shows that this room is where fire accidents are just waiting to happen.

Some say fire protection is a vocation they feel drawn to. My attraction can best be summed up by one tragedy-turned-triumphant event.

Questions come to me on a daily basis. Interestingly, the two I hear most often are: “Is there money in the budget for this?” and “What’s the story?”

This brief panorama is courtesy of your average fire inspector.

Pictures clearly tell the story of incredible things one finds during sprinkler system inspections. 

You cannot pretend that reality doesn't apply.

When someone a) badly misinterprets the code, b) abuses his own authority and c) gives the entire fire protection industry a black eye in the process, it’s time to start requiring plan reviewers to be held accountable for some type of professional standard.