| Contact The Chapter | Questions? Suggestions? Please contact us:
George Wagner
Executive Director
AFSA - VA Chapter
Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111
Home - 804-779-3921
Cell - 804-514-3154
wagnerg@mindspring.com
| |
| AFSA By-Laws | The AFSA Bylaws for the Virginia Chapter were changed effective 2-1-11.
To download a copy of the current AFSA ByLaws as an Adobe Acrobat Reader file (.pdf) please follow this link.
(Revised 02/07/11)
| |
| Travel Information |  | |
| $$$ Savings |  | |
| Your December Website Statistics | Who's looking at us? How many? How often? When?
Following any of these links will allow you to download an Adobe Acrobat Reader document (.pdf) of the Month listed.
| |
| Fire Sprinklers Save Lives |  | |
 | |
AFSA VA Chapter Annnounces 2012 Essay Contest
October 5, 2011
The Virginia Chapter of the American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) is sponsoring a scholarship contest for high school seniors. The Virginia contest is only open to high school students residing and graduating in a school located Virginia. Winner will receive Virginia prizes of $1500 for 1st place, $750 for 2nd place, and $500 for 3rd place. The requirement is to write a 700 to 1000 word essay on the following subject:
Write a creative, interesting and convincing essay where the character or characters can be historical or cultural, past or present, or completely fictional, that depicts the history and importance of automatic sprinklers.
The deadline to postmark entries is February 1, 2012.
Requirements for submission are a completed application form and the essay. All essays must have a bibliography. The essays will be judged on accuracy, content & creativity, and spelling/grammar/punctuation. The AFSA scholarship awards are not based on financial need.
SEND ESSAYS TO: Ron.Reynolds
or mail to
RON REYNOLDS-SFMO
1005 TECHNOLOGY PARK DRIVE
GLEN ALLEN, VA. 23059
AFSA is dedicated to the educational and professional advancement of the automatic fire sprinkler industry. You are also encouraged to enter the AFSA National contest. For contest information on the National contest, go to: http://www.firesprinkler.org/, where 10 students will win $2000 each.
If there are any questions, please call Ron Reynolds at 804-612-7268. Good Luck!
Sincerely,
Ron Reynolds, AFSA Virginia Chapter Essay Contest Chairman
To download a copy of the application as an Adobe Acrobat Reader document (.pdf) please follow this link.
|
|
2011 AFSA Convention Pictures
|
|
Upcoming Vendor Presentations
Dennis Wech - Tyco - Feb 7
Dave Deangelis - Lubrizol - Apr 3
Ben Johnson - Flexhead Industries - Jun 5
Bruce Allen - Atlantic American - Sep 18
Phil Linduska - Reliable Automatic - Nov 27 |
|
Legislator's Guide To Life Safety
RESIDENTIAL FIRE SPRINKLERS AND HOUSING ECONOMICS
A LEGISLATOR’S GUIDE TO LIFE SAFETY
This most recent version of the Housing and Economic Economic Guide is available here. To download a copy of this document as an Adobe Acrobat reader file (.pdf) please follow this link. |
|
November Meeting Report
Here are some photos from the November, 2011 AFSA VA Chapter Meeting:
Jason Gill of FLSA telling members about a new Sprinkler Design program at J. Sargent Reynolds Community College
Tom Lyons of FM Global giving presentation on FM Sprinkler Standards
Phil Linduska of Reliable Automatic Sprinkler giving a vendor presentation
Member attendees
|
|
2012 Golf Tourney Committee Meeting Dates
Below is the schedule of our Golf committee meetings for next year’s event. I hope these dates and times are acceptable to everyone participating.
Please make every attempt to be at the first meeting so we can get everyone’s duties assigned and get the ball rolling on sending out event notices and such.
- Tue - Mar 13
- Tue - Apr 12
- Tue - Jun 12
- Tue - Jul 10
- Tue - Aug 14
- Wed - Sept 5
- Tue - Sept 11
- Mon - Sept 17 - Pack Goody Bags at VSC
- Wed - Sept 19 - Burn Survivors Golf Tournament
Thank you for your time and please advise of your intentions. |
|
Virginia Legislature Contact Info
 |
 |
| House |
Senate |
|
|
NEW!!! AFSA VA Event Registration System
AFSA VA Chapter is introducing a new method of booking and payment for VA Chapter Events. It requires that you "register" to allow you to pay directly online. Each product also contains the registration form as a downloadable ".pdf" document
Reservations System Entry
We hope this will make it easier for you to sign up for events, and allow you to manage office budgets more effectively.
Sign up NOW for the Burn Camp Golf Tourney. |
|
New Revision of Housing Economic Guide
RESIDENTIAL FIRE SPRINKLERS AND HOUSING ECONOMICS
A LEGISLATOR’S GUIDE TO LIFE SAFETY
This most recent version of the Housing and Economic Economic Guide is available here. To download a copy of this document as an Adobe Acrobat reader file (.pdf) please follow this link.
|
|
News: The Importance Of The VA Chapter Golf Tourney To The Central Virginia Burn Camp
Wednesday, December 07 @ 15:07:08 CST by howard (70 reads) |  The AFSA Virginia Chapter Golf Committee worked tirelessly for an entire year to make the 18th Annual Burn Survivors Golf Tournament a success. Members, vendors, friends and supporters all pulled together, despite the challenging economy, to make this the most successful tournament to date. The Central Virginia Burn Camp is one of the grateful recipients of an extremely generous donation from the golf tournament. During the tournament itself, I was able to greet the golf tournament participants as they drove their golf carts up to the first hole. The players, while certainly enjoying a beautiful day on the golf course, expressed genuine caring and enthusiasm for supporting burn camp. When the time came that evening for the checks to be presented and I was presented a $25,000 check, I was truly speechless. Not only does this amount of money represent over 75% of camp's operating budget for the entire year, it was presented with such heartfelt generosity by the members of the golf tournament.
| | (Read More... | 5839 bytes more | News | Score: 5) |
|
News: Teamwork Makes Virginia Chapter Golf Tourney Successful in 2011
Wednesday, December 07 @ 05:04:26 CST by howard (66 reads) | The AFSA Virginia Chapter Golf Fundraiser in October, 2011 was a strong success in a tough industry year, contributing $50,000 to charities in 2011-----up almost 20% from the $42,000 in 2010! These funds raised were split evenly between the Central Virginia Burn Camp (a camp for children burn victims in conjunction with fire officials) and the Evans Hayes Medical College of Virginia Burn Center (again in conjunction with fire officials).
Many golf fund raisers in the industry have been postponed or seen reduced participation and contributions, so the question was asked of how the Virginia AFSA grew the tourney. The Virginia chapter’s success was built upon three pillars:
1) Broad, Strong Cooperative, Formal Committee: A key success factor was that the golf tourney Committee was broad based, serious about the mission and cooperative as a group. The tourney had three Chairmen and twelve total members. The Committee members included:
| | (Read More... | 6452 bytes more | News | Score: 0) |
|
News: AFSA VA Chapter Promotes Residential Fire Sprinklers
Wednesday, December 07 @ 04:37:26 CST by howard (66 reads) | The Virginia AFSA Chapter supported the Office of the Virginia State Fire Marshall and the Chesterfield County Fire Department held a live Side by Side Burn on Tuesday October 4, 2011 at the Chesterfield County ENON Fire Training Facility. This event was staged the week before National Fire Prevention week to demonstrate a live comparison between the suppression of a fire in a residential scenario without fire sprinklers and one with fire sprinklers.
The Side by Side Committee followed the detailed instruction Kit developed by the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition for the construction of the Side by Side Burn demonstration units and the demonstration of a real fire.
The unit without fire sprinklers was ignited and within two minutes the entire unit was engulfed in flames, at that point the Fire Department would have still been four or five minutes away from arriving at the scene. It was clear to everyone present that if anyone was still in a home at this point that they wool have not survived. The unit with sprinklers was ignited and within 15 seconds the fire sprinkler activated. As Captain Matt Coffin stated, “Your built in Firefighter responded at 165 degrees and extinguished the fire”. The unit with Fire Sprinklers was hardly damaged and the newspaper in the trash can where the fire started was not even fully burnt.
| | (Read More... | 2841 bytes more | News | Score: 0) |
|
News: 2011 Golf Tourney Report
Monday, October 17 @ 11:04:50 CDT by howard (155 reads) | The AFSA Virginia Chapter held its 18th Annual Burn Survivors Golf Tournament on Wednesday October 5, 2011.
The event was a sell out this year.
We had sunshine and 70 degrees and everyone had a great day.
AFSA was able to donate $25,000.00 to the Central Virginia Burn Camp and $25,000.00 to the Old Dominion Professional Firefighters Association due to the support of all of our sponsor companies.
Planning is starting for the 2012 event which will be held on September 19, 2012.
Please put this date on your calendar today.
The AFSA Golf Gold Sponsors
Golfers ready to go
Award to the Central Virginia Burn Camp
Award to the Old Dominion Professional Firefighters Association
AFSA Golf Committee
Some of the Golf Committee with Award Checks
| | (Read More... | News | Score: 0) |
|
News: AFSA 2011 Seminars
Monday, October 17 @ 10:52:33 CDT by howard (95 reads) | AFSA held the following Seminars at the Henrico Fire Training Facility
On October 6, 2011 the Seminar held was on NFPA #20, Fire Pumps, with 21 attendees
On October 7, 2011 the Seminar held was on NFPA #14, Standpipes, and on Seismic Protection with 30 attendees
NFPA # 20 Fire Pump Seminar presentation by Hans Stewart of ITT
Attendees of NFPA #14, Standpipe, Seminar
Attendees of Seismic Seminar
NFPA #14 and Seismic presenter Russ Leavitt
| | (Read More... | News | Score: 0) |
|
Fire Protection Engineering
|
|
| |
| Welcome to the AFSA Virginia Chapter Website | |
If you are a member of the Virginia Chapter of AFSA and would like to participate in the content of this site. We need stories and articles about the work that you do in your community.
If you have sprinkler related items of interest, employment opportunities or press releases, please contact George Wagner.
| |
| Meeting Dates for 2011 & 2012 |
- Nov 29 - 2011
- FEB 7 - RICHMOND, VA - WYNDHAM HOTEL
- APR 3 - RICHMOND, VA - WYNDHAM HOTEL
- JUN 5 - NEWPORT NEWS VA - MARRIOTT HOTEL
- SEP 18 - RICHMOND, VA - WYNDHAM HOTEL
- Golf 19 - RICHMOND, VA - HUNTING HAWK
- NOV 27 - RICHMOND, VA - O'TOOLE'S RESTAURANT
Watch for the details for each meeting as the meeting time approaches. All meeting are in Richmond unless otherwise noted.
Meeting information will be posted in the center column of this page and will be available for download as it becomes available.
| |
| November 2011 Meeting Minutes | | To read the minutes of the November meeting please follow this link. By following this link you will be able to read, or download, an Adobe Acrobat Reader Document (.PDF). | |
| Donate to the AFSA Virginia Chapter | | | |
| Mission Statement |  | |
| Scientific American Magazine | | Currently there is a problem with headlines from this site | |
| NFPA Research Results | | Currently there is a problem with headlines from this site | |
|
