October 5 - 11 is Fire Prevention Week! Read the new edition of Shop Talk (pdf) to learn more about lithium ion battery safety. At William & Mary, fire safety is practiced to reduce the destruction ...

When I first started working in schools, response drills for violent incidents were rare, uncomfortable, and often avoided altogether. Fire drills, on the other hand, were routine—scheduled, practiced ...

Last week was the fourth week of the school year, and Deming Public Schools will now proceed from weekly to monthly drills. So far, the Deming Fire Department has attended a total of 35 drills across ...

We practice fire drills at school and at work, but does your family know what to do when your home smoke alarm goes off? New survey data from Nationwide Insurance finds only one in five parents ...

On March 4, 1908, a fire erupted at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio. Among the frightened students was 9-year-old Niles Thompson, who, in a desperate attempt to escape the flames, lept ...

Rep. Mitch Bolinsky, R-Newtown, opposed a measure that would decrease the number of state-mandated fire and crisis response drills at schools. Credit: CT-N / CT-N A second attempt at introducing ...