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26 | Wildfire

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NFPA 13 NFPA 855 and sprinkler
protection for energy storage systems.
By Brian O'Connor

NFPA 101 New provisions seek a better
balance between safety and security.
By Jennifer Sisco

NFPA 72 Loudspeaker circuit survivability
and system reliability.
By Wayne Moore

NFPA 70+70E The 2020 NEC and safety
while working on service equipment.
By Derek Vigstol

Xchange A sampling of the codes-andstandards conversations happening in
NFPA's online community.

Firewatch

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Ready Or Not

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Watch an NFPA
Journal video with
interviews from
experts about the
issues surrounding
stranded energy.

What the deliberate power outages in
California say about our wildfire
planning, preparation, and resiliency.
By Michele Steinberg
28 | Research

We Are the World

nfpa.org/
emsrevolution
Read the National
Association of EMS
2018 survey on the
use of mobile integrated health care
and community
paramedicine in the
United States.

Globalization is erasing many of the
differences in the built environment
around the world-and researchers can
use that to their advantage.
By Birgitte Messerschmidt
54 | Outreach

It Matters

Amid the tragedies, it's important that
public safety educators be reminded
that their efforts can make a huge
difference. Here are a few examples.
By Lorraine Carli

nfpa.org/
burntreatment
Read the 2017 NFPA
report "Structure
Fires in Health Care
Facilities."

56 | First Responder

Going, Going, Gone

nfpa.org/
perspectives
Read blogs from
Getty Museum
staff about their
experiences during
California's Getty Fire
last October.

Rural areas across the country face a
crisis in volunteer-run emergency
medical services. What can be done?
By John Montes

80 | Looking Back
In 1950, an enraged patient set fire to
her room in the psychiatric ward of an
Iowa hospital, sparking a blaze that
killed 40 patients and a nurse.
By Matthew Foley

nfpa.org/dispatches
Watch a trailer for
the new Netflix
documentary Fire in
Paradise.
Read a report by the
Clean Energy Group
on resilient power
and solutions to
protect medically
vulnerable
households.

A collection of fire incidents in an assortment
of occupancies from across the United
States, compiled by NFPA's Research group.

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