The engine rounds the corner arriving first-in to a heavily involved, two-story, stick-frame residential with flames and heavy black smoke pushing hard from every window. The owners are crying on the ...

Fig. 1. The minimum electrical requirements for installing fire pumps are found in Article 695. A general philosophy for most electrical installations is to provide ...

The world of a modern-day engineer has changed, and many of us are struggling to keep up. Fires that used to go out relatively easily are now challenging us more than ever. The fuels involved in ...

In the first installment of this three-part series of articles, featured in the August 2024 print issue and online, we discussed fire pump requirements along with Code-related references in the ...