Tag: International Association of Fire Chiefs
Head of fire chiefs' group casts vote for ASAP
October 17, 2012Rich Miller
It's the season of spin. But no matter how you slice it, the opening paragraph of last week's commentary by Hank Clemmensen, president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, isn't a ringing endorsement of central stations.
“I always had supported remote station monitoring for my city's fire alarms, both because I believed it would provide faster notification and because I believed central stations always take too long,” wrote Clemmensen, the fire chief in...
CSAA, IAFC battle false alarms, falsehoods
March 3, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
VIENNA, Va.— To combat the problem of frequent false alarms in commercial facilities, the Central Station Alarm Association has been working with the International Association of Fire Chiefs for the past year to come up with some proposed NFPA 72 code changes. Now the groups say they're fighting a misinformation campaign about the changes, battling such claims that they're “in bed” together and that the proposals are dangerous.
“Nothing is further from the truth,” Steve...