Nursing home fire safety recent fires highlight weaknesses in federal standards and oversight report to congressional requesters

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : DIANE Publishing
• Release : 21 May 2022

• Author : Kathryn G. Allen
• Publisher : DIANE Publishing
• Release : 01 December 2004

In 2003, 31 residents died in nursing home fire in Hartford, CT, & Nashville, TN. Federal fire safety standards enforced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) did not require either home to have automatic sprinklers even though they have proven very effective in reducing the number of multiple deaths from fires. The GAO was asked to report on: (1) the rationale for not requiring all homes to be sprinkled, (2) the adequacy of federal fire safety standards for nursing homes that lack automatic

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1983

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1987

• Author : Captain Harry Fast
• Publisher : FriesenPress
• Release : 06 June 2013

IMAGINE... If a fire started in your living room at 3:00 AM, would everyone in the home be alerted by a smoke alarm? Would they know what to do? Would they be able to safely escape from the home and know where to meet outside at a predetermined place of refuge, such as the sidewalk in front of your house or a neighbour's driveway? This book will teach you how to answer, "Yes" to all of the above. You will look

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : FEMA
• Release : 21 May 2022

• Author : David Beavers
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 01 August 2000

Matthew Johann has spent the last eleven years running from city to city, evading those in pursuit of him. His flight leads him back home, hoping to find sanctuary with his siblings. What he finds upon his return is his youngest sister, Salena, existing in a world of her own creation that borders insanity. She's been a victim of circumstance, a prisoner bound to the home, forced to care for failing parents, forced to witness their demise while subjugated by

• Author : Newport Partners LLC
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 23 July 2014

This SpringerBrief reviews current home fire sprinkler system costs in one- and two-family dwellings, mobile homes, and multifamily residential buildings up to four stories. It provides individual community data and qualitative data gained through interviews with community officials, builders, and fire sprinkler contractors. The systems are reviewed against a 2008 benchmark study in order to analyze how the increasingly widespread adoption of national sprinkler ordinances impacts system cost. Using 51 homes in 17 communities, the authors discuss the impact of sprinkler ordinances on

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1974

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Government Operations Committee
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1974

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1981

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1976

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1986

• Author : Arthur E. Cote
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 21 May 2022

Apply the experience of dozens of leading authorities with the new Organizing for Fire and Rescue Services. This special fire service edition of NFPA's Fire Protection Handbook is comprised of 35 informative chapters that present the big picture in a single volume. All the topics fire service managers and fire and life safety educators need to know about are here including: Fire and fire science basics including fire data collection and databases, and use of incident data and statistics Information on

• Author : United States. General Accounting Office
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1976

In January 1976 a Chicago nursing home fire killed 23 people. Within a week, another nursing home fire just outside Chicago claimed the lives of eight people. In his letter of February 20, 1976, the Chairman, Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care, House Select Committee on Aging, asked us to investigate reasons for the severity of the fires and to suggest possible actions to avoid similar situations. He also asked us to investigate: 1)The fires and determine if automatic sprinkler systems would have put