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 | | News: Training Seminar Recap
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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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: Central Virginia Burn Camp
Monday, February 22 @ 07:15:39 PST by howard (148 reads) | Know of a child who has been hurt in a fire or been scalded? Remember the scars and damage that was done to them? Now think to when they get to return to school, or when they go shopping? To a movie? The stares they get or the questioning looks from their peers or strangers who wonder – what happened to him or her?
There is a group of firefighters, nurses, therapists and other volunteers who work each year to provide kids like this a chance to be with other kids like themselves in a fun environment. The kids each year show up to Charlottesville Va for the Central Virginia Burn Camp where kids who have varying degrees of burns come and share a camp experience without the questioning looks, the avoiding eye contact, etc that happen to them outside this event.
Their burns range from full body to barely noticeable. They occurred accidentally or in some cases through child abuse. Some are missing hair, eyebrows, and other parts of their body. Many still suffer though pain and / or are still undergoing medical procedures, therapy, etc.
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News: VSC Fire & Security changes with the times
Tuesday, February 16 @ 09:52:14 PST by howard (236 reads) | VSC Fire & Security changes with the
times
MARK GORMUS/TIMES-DISPATCH
Martin Giles is chairman of VSC
Fire & Security whose roots date to 1958. Over the years, Giles expanded the businesses' geographical footprint from Maryland to Florida and bought other companies. The various companies operated under their individual names.
But that changed last year when Giles changed the name of his companies to VSC Fire & Security.
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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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News: Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Disputes Virginia State Fire Marshal’s Determinatio
Tuesday, December 22 @ 04:56:36 PST by howard (331 reads) | Elmsford, New York – December 2009
The Virginia State Fire Marshal has recently issued a memoranda concerning dry sprinklers. Reliable Sprinkler strongly disagreed with the Fire Marshal’s Memoranda which appear to call for a statewide replacement of all Reliable G-3
dry sprinklers, particularly in state owned buildings, and after discussions with Reliable, the
Fire Marshal issued a clarification Memorandum on November 23, 2009.
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News: MEMORANDUM TO Fire and Building Officials from Ed Altizer, State Fire Marshal
Tuesday, December 22 @ 04:40:22 PST by howard (234 reads) | On October 14, 2009, the State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO) issued a memorandum to Fire and Building Officials regarding failures of dry sprinkler heads. Dry sprinklers are generally installed in locations subject to fluctuating environmental conditions such as extreme temperature variations, high humidity and/or corrosive conditions. Dry sprinklers may be found in cold storage warehouses, loading docks, balconies, attics, parking garages, and unheated portions of buildings. Today’s communication provides additional information for building owners.
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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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