The American Fire Sprinkler Association, VA Chapter

2013 Fire Protection Products Trade Show

Save The Date!!
October 8th 2013
The Virginia Chapter of the American Fire Sprinkler Association
Cordially invites you to our

2013 Fire Protection
Products Trade Show

Featuring the latest Product Technologies, Information & Technical Presentations
Come and mingle with Virginia’s Fire Protection Community!!
Hor d’oevures, Cocktails, Raffle Prizes For more info contact Craig Smith @ #804-730-9115 or Craig.smith@ferguson.com
Download the Registration form as an Adobe Acrobat reader (.pdf) file here

Virginia AFSA Trade Show 2013

The Virginia Chapter of the AFSA invites your firm to participate in our 2013 Trade Show
       Date:   October 8th 2013           Time:   4 PM to 7 PM
       Place:   Double Tree Hotel, 5501 Eubank Road, Sandston, Virginia.

   Cost:
AFSA VA Chapter Members               Non-Members        Early Bird by June 4th    $250.00   Early Bird by June 4th      $300.00
After June 5th                   $300.00   After June 5th                 $350.00

Vendor tables will be supplied with covers, skirts and chairs. Food & beverages will also be included and served during our show. Attendees will be required to visit each booth to be eligible for raffle prizes which should guarantee that 85% of the trade show attendees visit your booth.
We will invite Contractors, Engineers, Architects, AHJs, AGC, ASPE, Insurance Companies, Fire Marshalls, etc.
There are only 29 tables available so please take advantage of our Early Bird promotion. Registration is a first come first serve basis and should sell out as pervious years have in the past.
Please fill out the following information and enclose your check made out to “AFSA Virginia Chapter” and mail back to the address below no later than September 13th 2013.
               AFSA Virginia Chapter c/o Ferguson Fire & Fab
               8438 Old Richfood Road, Mechanicsville, VA 23116

The Double Tree is offering the AFSA guests a Special Room Rate of $99.00 plus tax. Call #804-226-6400 to make your reservations by no later than September 7, 2013.

AFSA Golf Tourney 2012

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The AFSA Virginia Chapter is very proud of the 2012 AFSA Burn Survivors Golf Tournament and we Thank everyone who supported this event.

We made a special effort to than the Gold and Major sponsors for the 2012 Tournament and we took out a full page advertisement in Sprinkler Age to thank them.

I thought that everyone would like to see this advertisement so I am attaching a copy for your review.

Thank everyone for their help and support in making our 19th year a very successful Tournament!!!!

Please note that the 20th event will be very special and we hope that everyone can help us raise the bar to support these two Great Charities.

George Wagner

Henrico Training Center Class a Big Success

AFSA Virginia Chapter held an instructional Seminar on Thursday October 4, 2012 at the Henrico Training Center in Richmond Virginia.
The topics were:
a) Technical Changes from the 2007 Edition to the 2010 Edition of NFPA 13
b) NFPA 13 (2010 Ed.) Storage Occupancies

The Instructor was Bob Caputo, CFPS, CET

This was the first AFSA Seminar where Virginia Inspector re-certification hours will be applied by the VA Dept. of Fire Programs upon completion

The 2012 AFSA Burn Survivors Golf Tournament was a huge success.

I want to take time to give a Special Thanks to AFSA Members and our other friends and Associates who supported this Tournament.
Thanks to you we were able to donate $58,000.00 this year breaking the $500,000.00 mark in our 19 years of Golf Tournaments.
We do have two special Charities!!!

I did want to take the time to share with you the mission of these two Charities

A) Central Virginia Burn Camp
The mission of the Central Virginia Burn Camp is obvious.
We support sending young burn survivors to a one week free camp each summer.
AFSA support pays for a big part of this camp and all of the camp staff are volunteers.
Firefighters from different localities provide the food and cook it for the kids.

B) Old Dominion Firefighters Burn Foundation

I am going to list the many varied items that the Old Dominion Firefighters Burn Foundation are involved in:

2012 Golf Tourney Photos

Mike Meehan presenting the check to Leslie Baruch of the Central Virginia Burn Camp and tow of the campers who played in the Tournament.

Mike Meehan presenting the check to Jerry Pruden President of the Old Dominion Firefighters Burn Foundation

Harry Hoffon introducing Logan and Jasmine, the two young adult burn camp survivors who played in the Tournament.

The crowd at the Awards dinner

September Meeting Photos

Jeff Livaudais from National AFSA giving an update on the 2012 Convention in Hawaii

Mike Paolini from Onsite Software giving a presentation on the latest programs they have for inspections

Chuck Oakes from Victaulic giving a presentation of Vic Flex

2012 Burn Camp Rport

Last October 2011, AFSA VA Chapterdonated $50,000.00 to the Burn Camp and the Old Dominion Firefighter Association that funded this year’s camp.
Our Golf tournament in September will fund the 2013 camp and we hope to raise $50,000.00+ again.

These are a few pictures of the award dinner at the Central Virginia Burn Camp held the week of June 11, 2012. This dinner was Friday night June 15, 2012.

If you would like to see a YouTube video of this event, please follow this link.

VA Chapter June Meeting

Chapter Chairman Mike Meehan conduction the business meeting

Jim Toups of ServPro making a presentation on “Tips and steps to prevent/minimize water damage claims”

Ben Johnson of Flexhead giving a presentation on Flexhead products.

2012 AFSA - VA Chapter Essay Contest Results

By Ron Reynolds, AFSA-Virginia Essay Chairman

There were 132 entries in this year’s contest! Some of the most creative essays were submitted this year. High school seniors were asked to: “Write a creative, interesting and convincing essay where the characters can be historical or cultural, past or present, or completely fictional, that depicts the history and importance of automatic sprinklers.”

As usual, the essays had to be 700 to 1000 words long, with a bibliography and application included. The essays were judged on accuracy, content, and creativity. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation were also considered.The winning essays were as follows:

First Place, $1500
Austin Shepherd, of Albemarle High School, Charlottesville, VA
Austin wrote an interesting story where the main character was fire itself, where fire was giving a “Fireside Chat.” The story later says that sprinklers work so well that fire may consider “retirement.” Download/Read the essay

Second Place, $750
Kelly Sanborn, of Westfield High School in Chantilly, VA
Kelly’s essay was written from the perspective of “flames.” The flames lament that humans allow them to help cook or warm their home, but otherwise will try to exterminate them when a flame “acts on its own volition.” Download/Read the essay

Third Place, $500
Luke Quigley of Abingdon High School in Abingdon, VA
Luke’s essay was truly out of this world! It involves the “first civilian transport” to the planet Mars. A fire occurred, that was extinguished by an automatic sprinkler. Download/Read the essay