Escape Room Safety
Escape rooms are popping up everywhere. In 2014, there were only 22 escape rooms in the United States. Today, there are over 2,000. After a fire in an escape room killed five teenagers in Poland in Ja...
13 Aug 201924min
Social Monitoring During Disasters
As disasters strike around the globe with greater frequency and severity, aid agencies are increasingly relying on a worldwide army of volunteers to listen to the digital chatter on social media emana...
16 Juli 201928min
Fire Safety on Movie Sets
NFPA Journal Podcast is back!!! We're trying out a new format so please let us know what you think, send an email to AVerzoni@nfpa.org. After a deadly blaze on a movie set in New York City, experts s...
14 Maj 201914min
Saving Shantytowns
About 1 billion people worldwide live in areas known as shantytowns, informal settlements, or slums, where fire is an ever-present threat. Last year, a project carried out in a shantytown in South Afr...
1 Nov 201816min
The Airbnb Challenge
As Airbnb and other short-term rental services expand to include a range of property types, regulatory challenges create uncertainty over the level of safety those spaces should provide. BY ANGELO VER...
23 Juli 201811min
Fire chiefs talk Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
First Harvey. Then Irma. Then Maria. After three hurricanes pummeled the United States coast from late August through September, NFPA Journal's November/December issue includes interviews with several...
9 Nov 201711min
Responding to Active Shooter Incidents - NFPA 3000
Against a backdrop of active shooter events from coast to coast, NFPA began crafting its new standard on response and preparedness to active shooter and/or hostile events, NFPA 3000, in June. In this ...
1 Aug 201718min
Combating Firefighter Cancer in Boston
Jesse Roman sits down with Boston's Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn to discuss how Boston became a leader in the effort to combat firefighter cancer.
5 Juli 201721min
