| 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
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| 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)
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AFSA-Virginia Burn Survivors Golf Tournament
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Central Virginia Burn Camp
The Central Virginia Burn Camp provides children who have been hospitalized with burn injuries the
opportunity to play, heal and connect with other young burn victims and caring adults. Not only do
the children have physical reminders of their burns, many of them also have emotional scars. The chance
to connect with caring adults, healthcare professionals and other kids who have similar
physical and emotional wounds goes a long way toward helping these kids develop confidence, self-
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ODPFF Burn Foundation
The Old Dominion Professional Firefighters Burn Foundation is a partnership between professional
firefighters associations and the Evan-Haynes Burn Center at the Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical Center. The Foundation’s activities include: Supporting Richmond Metro firefighters and their
families who have been hospitalized for burn injuries; Helping burn victims and families receiving treatment
at the Evans-Haynes Burn Center; Funding medical and physical therapy equipment purchases and burn
research; Offering burn education and prevention programs; Supporting the Central Virginia Burn
Camp. |
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2011 AFSA Convention Pictures
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Upcoming Vendor Presentations
Ben Johnson - Flexhead Industries - Jun 5
Bruce Allen - Atlantic American - Sep 18
Phil Linduska - Reliable Automatic - Nov 27 |
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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. |
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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 - 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. |
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Virginia Legislature Contact Info
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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. |
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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.
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Contests: 2012 AFSA - VA Chapter Essay Contest Results
Thursday, May 17 @ 05:25:32 CDT by howard (3 reads) |  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
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News: April Meeting Report
Monday, April 09 @ 07:56:27 CDT by howard (48 reads) | 
Steve Muncy, President of National AFSA, giving a presentation on the state of national AFSA and the Fire Sprinkler Industry
John Davis of FIKE making a presentation on alternative fire suppression systems
AFSA Board at work with Steve Muncy of National AFSA in attendance
Anthony Spencer of Lubrizol giving members an update on Lubrizol product issues
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News: The Importance Of The VA Chapter Golf Tourney To The Central Virginia Burn Camp
Wednesday, December 07 @ 14:07:08 CST by howard (211 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.
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News: AFSA VA Chapter Promotes Residential Fire Sprinklers
Wednesday, December 07 @ 03:37:26 CST by howard (198 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.
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News: AFSA Side by Side Burn
Monday, October 17 @ 09:32:28 CDT by howard (161 reads) | On Tuesday October 4, 2011 AFSA with the Chesterfield County Fire Department and the Virginia State Fire Marshalls Office conducted a live Side by Side Burn at the Chesterfield County ENON Fire Training Facility.
About 125 people attended with Channel #6, Channel #8, Channel #12 and the Richmond Newspaper present to record this event.
Matt Coffin of The Chesterfield County Fire Department was MC and Chief Senter from Chesterfield County, Billy Shelton Directors of Virginia Fire Programs and Mike Meehan of AFSA/VSC spoke.
This event went off perfect and was a huge success!!! All local stations ran segments over the next few days on this event.
National AFSA and the Virginia AFSA Chapter funded this event.
We hope to have a full video presentation at a future Virginia Chapter meeting.
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| 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.
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| Meeting Dates for 2012 |
- 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.
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| April 2012 Meeting & Board 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). | |
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