“My building already has two exits. I don’t understand why I must have a third.” Often when dealing with fire codes, people see them as something to dread or as another restrictive hassle that’s ...

A hard truth in 2023: Unless you are located in California, Texas or the Southeast, your fire department probably isn’t growing. Your workload might be getting larger, but your human and physical ...

The FRFD is pushing hard for key changes to state and national fire codes on sprinklers, changes that could have saved lives at Gabriel House.

Five of the six fire deaths in Montgomery County in 2005 could have been prevented if the fire department had enough code inspectors to deal with a growing population and a backlog of inspections, ...

Cal Fire added at least 2.8 million Californians into its Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The zones, referenced in over 100 sections of code and regulation, are tied to home hardening, defensible space ...

Chaffee County commissioners heard a first reading of the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, a state code intended to ...