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Tuesday, August 31 @ 05:12:55 PDT by howard (8 reads) |  On August 26, 2010 the AFSA Virginia Chapter held a Training Seminar presented by Bruce Carter of North American Fire Sales.
The Seminar title was “Sell to Win”
We were pleased to have had 38 Sprinkler Contractor and Vendors from Virginia and North Carolina attend this informative Seminar
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News: ICC & AFSA Present: 2009 IBC Changes & NFPA 25, 2008 Ed.
Wednesday, June 30 @ 03:30:21 PDT by howard (55 reads) |  ICC & AFSA Present: 2009 IBC Changes & NFPA 25, 2008 Ed.
Richmond, VA – October 7-8, 2010
FAX THIS FORM BY SEPTEMBER 20th TO RECEIVE DISCOUNT!
Don’t miss this opportunity to get required Continuing Education credits for NICET in this seminar series
hosted by the Virginia Chapter of AFSA, presented by the International Code Council and the
American Fire Sprinkler Association.
Follow this link to download the form as an Adobe Acrobat Reader document (.pdf)
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News: Eagle Scout candidate and AFSA-VA Chapter join forces to protect families
Wednesday, June 30 @ 03:25:45 PDT by howard (43 reads) | | We all know smoke detectors are a great
safety item when installed and operating properly. However when smoke
detectors are not in working condition due to bad batteries or
missing all together, the results can be quite tragic. Recent studies
across the country have shown smoke detector failures over a 10 year
time frame can be as high as 65%. This failure may be due to poor
maintenance, removal of smoke detector or detector not in working
order.
Life Boy Scout De’Ron Pinkston of
Troop 487 in Richmond Va., realized this fact after having seen on
the news several times in quick succession the damages and loss of
life that occurred from homes with missing or non working smoke
detectors. In his own county 8 persons had died within a 6 month
period in which detectors were missing or no longer in working order.
So when it came time to complete a project for his Eagle Scout rank,
he chose to do something about this in his neighborhood. De’Ron
contacted his local fire department, Henrico County Division of Fire
and was placed in contact with Lt. Will Shumate of the Fire Marshal’s
office. Will contacted Bill Jones of FirePro, an AFSA Virginia
Chapter member who had experience in dealing with Boy Scouts and
whose own son achieved Eagle Scout to help plan the project. Will
and Bill met with De’Ron to go over his plan of action and how he
proposed to accomplish his goal of making his neighborhood safer.
Part of De’Ron’s project included making a fire safety flier to
hand out to those in his neighborhood even if they chose not to have
a smoke detector installed. De’Ron also solicited information from
other localities on fires and found in many cases homes having fires
did not have working smoke detectors in 55 – 80% of the cases
matching the national average.
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Contests: This Years Essay Contest Winners Announced
Friday, April 30 @ 05:26:05 PDT by howard (157 reads) | |
American Fire Sprinkler Association’s (AFSA)
Virginia Chapter Announces the Winners of the 2009-2010 Essay Contest
Ron Reynolds
AFSA Virginia Chapter Essay Chairman
Each year, the AFSA Virginia Chapter awards scholarships to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place essay writers in our statewide contest. First place receives $1,500, second place $750, and third place $500. The Virginia Chapter also offers three Honorable Mention prizes of $100 each.
Only open to high school seniors, the purpose of the contest is to help educate people about fire sprinklers and how they save lives and property, and to help students continue their education. The essays must be from 700 to 1000 words, and include a bibliography. Essays are judged on accuracy, content, punctuation, and with an emphasis on creativity. Judges come from Chapter members in the sprinkler industry, fire and building code officials, and others.
Contestants in the contest this year were asked to “write a creative, interesting and convincing essay on the history of automatic sprinklers.” We received over 120 entries and as usual, they were very well written. The high quality of the essays makes it very difficult for the judges to pick the contest winners. After much deliberation using the skills of 12 different judges, the winners were picked, and here they are:
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First Place
$1500
Christina Lee
Potomac Falls HS
Sterling, VA.
Christina wrote an essay from the prospective of a fire sprinkler, protecting a residence that was very interesting and creatively done.
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Second Place
$750
Leah Coates
Washington and Lee HS
Colonial Beach, VA.
Leah’s essay was written about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, and what the might have happened had sprinklers been present.
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Third Place
$500
Caitlin Tignor
Essex HS
White Stone, VA.
Caitlin’s essay described the contribution of Philip Pratt, the first person to patent an automatic sprinkler, at an imaginary gathering of people who had survived fires because of automatic sprinklers.
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Christina Lee’s essay will be entered in a contest for an additional $1000 from the AFSA National organization.
$100 Honorable Mentions go to:
- Samuel Roderick of Broadway High School, in Broadway, VA.
- Regan Mukai, home-schooled, from Alexandria, VA.
- Megan Wiles, of Courtland High School, from Spotsylvania, VA.
For the first time ever, AFSA National will have a “2nd Chance” contest open to all graduating seniors where all can enter a contest and have a chance to win $1000. Go to http://www.afsascholarship.org/ for more details. This contest is open to all of those who entered the contest as well as those who did not. There is no requirement to write an essay for the 2nd Chance contest.
AFSA-Virginia thanks the many high school seniors who entered the contest this year for sending in their essays. It is always very tough to pick the best out of so many very good essays.
The Virginia Chapter congratulates all participants. Although not everyone can win a monetary prize, we believe that everyone who entered can come away a winner in the valuable knowledge they gain of what automatic fire sprinklers can do to save lives and property.
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News: April 6th Meeting
Monday, April 12 @ 04:37:48 PDT by howard (110 reads) |
| Mike Meehan, AFSA Chairman, receiving an award from Jerry Pruden of the Old Dominion Professional Fire Fighters Burn Foundation for the continued support of the Burn Foundation by the Virginia AFSA Chapter. |
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R.C. Moore of Tabb Brockenbrough & Ragland making a presentation to the meeting on Insurance Terminology for the Fire Sprinkler Industry. |
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News: NC Inspection Issues
Monday, March 22 @ 02:51:13 PDT by howard (208 reads) |  Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am attaching a letter from the North Carolina
State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating & Fire Sprinkler
Contractors.
If you do any
Inspection contracts in North Carolin
you must read and understand
this letter!!!
Earlier in 2009 I uncovered a
problem where the North Carolina contracting regulations prohibited a
Licensed Sprinkler Inspection Contractor from taking a contract from any
party other than the Owner of a property.
After significant research
and discussion with roughly 20 Contractors I determined that this was
an Industry issue that needed to be addressed as Sprinkler Contractors
were starting to get citations from the State Board in regards to this
issue.
I contacted Jeffery Dunn, the President of the North
Carolina AFSA Chapter and reviewed the issue with him and we decided to
ask for a meeting with the State Board to review and seek clarification.
On
October 1, 2009 Jeffery Dunn, Joe Collins and John Turnage of the North
Carolina AFSA Chapter and I met with Dale Dawson, the Executive
Director of the State Board, to discuss this issue.
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News: AFSA 2010 Economic Relief Program
Thursday, February 04 @ 12:09:03 PST by howard (186 reads) |  Now AFSA is extending support to individual company members. AFSA will be absorbing a significant loss of income to assist our members in this difficult economy.
Specifically, the AFSA Economic Relief Program offers members:
- Free AFSA Educational Webinars, a $75 value each webinar you attend. CEU’s are awarded for each technical seminar;
- AFSA Bucks coupons equal to 10% of annual dues amount that can be used for any product or service produced by AFSA. AFSA Bucks coupon will be sent upon dues renewal and must be used within one year of issuance (associate and contractor members only);
- Critical, time-sensitive training. Educate your supervisors on labor and union issues at exclusive AFSA prices Click here for details on these two new training programs.
AFSA values its members. These are tough economic times, and we will work together to make sure the fire sprinkler industry has a bright outlook for the future. Only members in good standing can take advantage of these offerings.
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| Meeting Dates for 2010 |
- Sep 14
- Sep 15 — Golf Tourney
- Nov 9
Watch for the details for each meeting as the meeting time approaches.
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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