Fire Engineering Company

Fire Protection Engineers & Contractors

3389 South 8th West

Salt Lake City, Utah

#13

May 1968

NEW FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM INSTALLATIONS

Buttrey's Food Store Addition

— Bozeman, Montana

Vista Liner & Cordin Co.

— Salt Lake City, Utah

Henderson Rim & Wheel Service

— Salt Lake City, Utah

Long's Tire Service

— Bozeman, Montana

El Capitan Casino & Restaurant

— Hawthorne, Nevada

Heritage Manor

— Twin Falls, Idaho

FIRE MARSHAL LEON DEKORVER POINTS OUT THAT an area should conform to

fire and health standards before it is annexed to Salt Lake City.

Mr. DeKorver said, "It is easier to gain compliance before than after

annexation".

The fire marshal said that he found many businesses in

the area did not meet fire—prevention code requirements.

UTAH SCHOOL BOARDS SHOULD FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF CLARK COUNTY

(Las

Vegas), Nevada.

This county has an excellent record for installing

fire protection systems to protect its students' lives and the prop=

erty investment of the Nevada taxpayer.

Utah schools are not protected in accordance with the Uniform

Building Code.

Granite High School, for example, is not adequately

protected, nor is the Hurrican High School.

The new Uinta Basin

Vocational Center is only partially protected.

In the neighboring state of Idaho, the school board recently

saved

$40,000 in construction costs by installing a complete fire

protection system.

The system, which cost

$51,000, saved

$94,000

in construction costs because the fire protection system allowed the

construction method to meet the Uniform Building Code.

WILL IT TAKE A TRAGIC LOSS OF LIFE TO AWAKEN THE UTAH SCHOOL BOARD

TO THE NEED FOR MEETING THE LIFE—SAFETY CODE?

THE LOSS BY FIRE OF THE OVERLAND SHOPPING CENTER IN BURLEY) IDAHO, WAS

Tru:,Gic, according to the South Idaho Press.

Eleven stores were

swallowed up by fire.

The paper termed the fire one of the greatest

economic losses to ever hit the area.

The loss of property, income

and inconvenience to the owners and their customers could have ^been

reduced had the shopping center been properly protected with a ^fire

sprinkler protection system.

Area experts predict that the total loss

will exceed

$4 million.

The owners of the eleven stores could have

•

ums and continued business as usual

with a fire protection system.

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Fire Engineering Company Bulletin #13

May 1968

THE FIRE RESEARCH AND SAFETY ACT OF

1968 IS NOW PUBLIC LAW #90-259.

Title I of the Act establishes a fire research and safety program for

which Congress authorized

$5 million for the period ending June

31,

1970.

Title II provides for establishment of a National Commission

on Fire Prevention and Control.

Title I of the Act authorized the National Bureau of Standards

to establish a Fire Research and Safety Center for administering the

program and authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to conduct, directly

or through contract or grants:

Investigation of fires to determine their cause, frequency

of occurrence, severity and other pertinent factors;

Research into the causes and nature of fires and development

of improved methods and techniques for fire prevention, fire control

and reduction of death, personal injury and property damage;

Educational programs to inform the public on fire hazards and

fire safety techniques and to encourage avoidance of such hazards

and use of such techniques;

Fire information reference services, including the collection,

analysis and dissemination of data, research results and other inform-

ation derived from this program or from other sources and related to

fire protection, fire control and reduction of death, personal injury

and property damage;

Educational and training programs to improve, among other

things, the efficiency, operation and organization of the fire serv-

ices and capability of controlling unusual fire-related hazards and

fire disasters;

Projects demonstrating improved or experimental programs

for

(a) fire prevention control and reduction of death, personal in-

jury and property damage;

(b) application of fire safety principals

in construction; or

organization of the

fire services;

Support by contracts and grants of the development of fire

safety and fire protection engineering or science curriculums and

fire safety courses, seminars or other instructional materials and

aids for appropriate curriculums or courses of instruction for use

by educational and other non-profit institutions.

The National Commission to be appointed under the Act is to be

composed of

20 members, including the Secretary of Commerce and the

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

The other

18 members

are to be appointed by the President.

Not more than six members are

to be from the Federal Government.

The Commission will also have

four advisory members, two from the

House of Representatives and two

from the Senate.

"I make progress by having people around who are smarter than

I am -- and listening to them.

And I assume that everyone is

smarter about something than I am."

(Henry J. Kaiser)