A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...

Everyone is talking about doing more with less these days. I keep wondering when we will be discussing doing less with less. Some taxpayers are so naà¯ve about what government does that their ...

The primary responsibility of any fire prevention official is to enforce the fire codes adopted by their respective jurisdiction. The common highest goal in any fire prevention effort is providing ...

The Fort Steuben Mall ownership, already dealing with major building code violations, now must bring the facility into ...

CHAMPAIGN – Champaign is currently the only community in the Big Ten that doesn't have some sort of systematic fire code inspection program for apartment buildings. That could change under a proposal ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The time for fire code inspections are long overdue. For the past year and a half, the Spokane Fire Department (SFD) has been revamping their fire inspections to ensure apartments and ...

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.

The residential high-rise in Kenwood where an extra alarm fire occurred Wednesday morning, killing one person, has a history of code violations and building inspection failures, city records show.