NFPA Journal - March/April 2018 - 4

NFPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers
Randolph W. Tucker
Chair
Tucker Consulting Associates
Houston, Texas
Keith E. Williams
First Vice Chair
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Northbrook, Illinois
Amy R. Acton
Second Vice Chair
The Phoenix Society
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Donald R. Cook
Secretary
Shelby County Department of
Development Services
Pelham, Alabama

First Word

by Jim Pauley

NFPA President

Thomas Lawson
Treasurer
FM Global
Johnston, Rhode Island
Kwame Cooper
Assistant Treasurer
Los Angeles Fire Department
Los Angeles, California
James Pauley
President
President and CEO, NFPA

Losing Sight of the System
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two-family homes since 2009. Historically,
jurisdictions amended model codes to
make them more stringent, create the right
administrative rules for implementation, or
make modifications unique to a particular
jurisdiction. In recent years, this process
has been co-opted as a way for local political power players such as the home builders
to remove requirements they don't like,

*Dennis J. Berry
Assistant Secretary
Secretary of the Corporation, NFPA
Directors
Ernest J. Grant, Ph.D.
Immediate Past Chair
North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Terms Expire in 2018
John Bonney
Alendi Consulting
Ropley, United Kingdom
R. David Paulison
Global Emergency Solutions
Davie, Florida
Harold A. Schaitberger
International Assoc. of Fire Fighters
Washington, D.C.
William A. Stewart
William A. Stewart Consulting Services
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The safety ecosystem
has been constructed
successfully over
decades, yet we allow
individual actions to
negatively impact it.

weakening safety provisions. This also damages the ecosystem, undermining the level of
safety expected by the public.
This all matters because the public counts
on the system to help keep it safe, and to
keep its property safe. The safety ecosystem has been constructed successfully over
decades, yet we allow individual actions
to negatively impact the level of safety we
assume and expect.
It is incumbent on all of us who are part
of this system to ensure we are promoting
the full system. At NFPA, we will be talking
more about this ecosystem and how it can
be improved and executed more efficiently.
It's a big world. Let's protect it together.

Michael Wallace
UTC Climate, Controls and Security
Jupiter, Florida
Peter J. Gore Willse
XL Catlin
Hartford, Connecticut
Terms Expire in 2019
Tonya L. Hoover
Emmitsburg, Maryland
Hatem Kheir
Kheir Group
Cairo, Egypt
Teresa L. Deloach Reed
Oakland Fire Department (retired)
Oakland, California
Stacy N. Welch
Marriott International
Bethesda, Maryland
Terms Expire in 2020
Jeffery C. Cash
City of Cherryville Fire Department
Cherryville, North Carolina
Russell B. Leavitt
Telgian Corporation
Tempe, Arizona
Roger Montembeault
The Montembeault Group
Tampa, Florida
Eric Rosenbaum
Jensen Hughes
Baltimore, Maryland
James Sullivan
IDG International Publishing Services
Framingham, Massachusetts
*Not a Board member

NFPA

was considering a number of
topics for this edition's First
Word, until a few headlines
crossed my desk.
In Florida: "A Bill Delaying
Fire Protection Requirements Once Again
Gets Approval."
In New York: "Schenectady Inspector
Faces Trial in Fatal Fire."
In Delaware: "Mandatory Fire Sprinklers
Could Hurt Housing Market, Builders Say."
They painfully reminded me of how far we
have to go in getting our policymakers and
the public to understand that fire safety exists
in an ecosystem of interdependent parts.
The first headline reveals how out of touch
policymakers are around fire safety. A Florida law has required for a number of years
that certain condominium buildings have
fire sprinklers by 2019. Last year, Florida
Governor Rick Scott vetoed a bill that would
have extended that timeline. His decision
was a direct result of the Grenfell Tower fire
in London. Yet a House panel in the Florida
legislature has shown its lack of interest
in fire safety by passing yet another bill to
extend the deadline for compliance.
The second involves four people who died
in a large apartment fire. Criminal charges
have been filed against a city inspector, and
civil lawsuits have been filed against the
city itself. This points out the critical role of
an effective code enforcement system.
The third headline reinforces the fact that
the code adoption system has been turned
upside down. National model building
codes have required sprinklers in one- and

*Bruce H. Mullen
Staff Officer
Executive VP and CFO, NFPA



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