Sprinkler Prevents Fire In Downtown Las Vegas High-Rise
[11/29/2006] - An automatic fire sprinkler doused a fire on the outside balcony of a tenth floor condominium at Soho Loft Las Vegas building yesterday morning. Damage was minimal. more

Investigators look for cause of Mo. fire
[11/29/2006] - ANDERSON, Mo. - The owner of a group home where 10 people were killed in a suspicious fire had been convicted in 2003 in a Medicare fraud case, raising questions of whether he was legally allowed to operate the place. link

Fire at Group Home Kills 10 in Missouri
[11/28/2006] - ANDERSON, Mo., Nov. 27 -- Ten people were killed and 24 were injured when a fire gutted a group home for the elderly and mentally ill early Monday, authorities said. link

Parents, Students Speak Out On Eastern Guilford Situation
[11/27/2006] - Parents and students are voicing their concerns about an arrangement forced by a massive fire at Eastern Guilford High School. link

Burned Citrus Heights Care Home Lacked Fire Sprinklers
[11/27/2006] - CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. -- No fire sprinklers were present in the Citrus Heights residential care facility where a blaze killed two elderly women and injured several other people late Sunday, fire officials said. link

School Insurance Money Up In Smoke?
[11/27/2006] - Cabot Public School District says it is very unhappy with how its insurance company is handling the recent school fire. The junior high caught fire in August, but the district hasn't received any money to rebuild. link

Police Investigate Fire At Fleming Island H.S. As Arson
[11/27/2006] - The Clay County Sheriff's Office Juvenile Crime Unit continued its investigation on Monday afternoon into an intentionally set fire at Fleming Island High School. link

Victims of Reno's deadliest fire ever remembered at service
[11/25/2006] - RENO, Nev. (AP) - Twelve people who died in a Halloween night arson fire at a casino-district hotel were remembered as "best friends" and "lovers" Saturday at a tearful memorial service. link

Cape nightclubs fall behind on sprinkler requirement
[11/24/2006] - On a summer night in Provincetown, the Atlantic House ''Big Room'' is the place to be. The music thumps, strobe lights pass back and forth through the haze of fake fog, and the dance floor pulses with sweaty bodies. To find a restroom or check a bag, you have to push through a disorienting array of elbow jabs, sloshed drinks and cell phone conversations. link

Fire official urges state support for sprinkler systems after La Crosse apartment fire
[11/23/2006] - While it had blackened cabinets and a charred microwave from a Tuesday afternoon kitchen fire, the apartment could have been in much worse shape were it not for a sprinkler system, La Crosse fire Division Chief Jeff Brohmer said Wednesday. more

Hotel in Cherry Hill sustains fire damage
[11/20/2006] - A fire early Sunday damaged part of the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, authorities said. more

Blaze damages high school bathroom
[11/20/2006] - A fire in a boys’ restroom at Vista Del Lago High School Friday, Nov. 17, caused a campus-wide evacuation. No injuries were reported. more

University To Install Sprinklers After Fatal Frat Fire
[11/20/2006] - LINCOLN, Neb. -- All student residence halls and fraternity and sorority houses on the Nebraska Wesleyan University campus will have sprinkler systems installed as soon as funding allows, university interim President Joe Gow said Saturday. link

Cause of Neb. frat house fire probed
[11/18/2006] - LINCOLN, Neb. - Fire investigators worked through the night but still had not determined early Saturday what started a blaze at a fraternity house that killed one student and left three others critically injured. link

Former Sioux Falls Student Injured in Nebraska Fire
[11/17/2006] - One student was killed and three others were critically injured in the fire at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. One of the critically injured students is 20-year-old Aaron McGuire, a 2005 graduate of Washington High School in Sioux Falls. link

City council orders chief to prepare fire code study
[11/16/2006] - Following the deaths of 12 people in the Halloween fire at the Mizpah Hotel, the Reno City Council on Wednesday ordered the fire chief to prepare a study comparing Reno's fire code with other cities around the country. link

Fire-safety measures to be pushed today
[11/15/2006] - Officials from Richmond and other fire-safety agencies will lobby state lawmakers today to change Virginia's Fire Prevention Code so municipalities can require the owners of high-rise buildings to install sprinkler systems. link

Controlling fire damage
[11/15/2006] - HYDE PARK — On a recent morning, firefighters from six local departments spent several hours building and furnishing two wood-framed bedrooms on the grounds of Dutchess County's fire training center. By the afternoon, they were ready to burn them. They intentionally set a fire, then sat back and watched as the fire tore through the two stand-alone bedrooms — one equipped with a sprinkler, the other without. link

Tougher fire safety proposal applauded
[11/8/2006] - Federal regulation would require older nursing homes to install sprinkler systems in residents' rooms.Local advocates for the elderly are hailing a federal proposal that would require the nation's older nursing homes to install sprinkler systems in individual residents' rooms. link

Conference highlights need for fire safety on campuses
[11/7/2006] - CHAPEL HILL -- The fraternity house fire that killed five UNC students a decade ago had one benefit, Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones explained at a conference on campus fire safety Monday. It caused UNC, and colleges nationwide, to pay more attention to fire safety. link

San Jose fire seriously damages eight businesses
[11/7/2006] - The San Jose Fire Department is investigating an early morning fire in a two-story commercial building that seriously damaged eight businesses, according to a San Jose Fire Department spokesman. more

Plans uncertain following school fire; school had no sprinklers
[11/6/2006] - GIBSONVILLE, N.C. -- Students will not return this year to Eastern Guilford High School, where a fire Wednesday destroyed the school and injured three firefighters, officials said. link

Reno Hotel Fire Toll Rises To 11
[11/6/2006] - Two more bodies were recovered Sunday from the rubble of a downtown hotel, bringing the death toll to 11 in the city's deadliest fire. Officials said the toll could still rise. link

Sprinklers credited with quashing restaurant fire
[11/3/2006] - Sunday blaze at Taco Tenexpa in Paso Robles caused by improper water heater pipe installation more

Most NC schools not required to have sprinkler systems
[11/2/2006] - RALEIGH -- Fire ravaged Eastern Guilford High School on Wednesday and portions of the building caved in. Firefighters say a sprinkler system could have helped control the fire from the beginning and minimized the damage. link

She was a gift’: Fire kills Pembroke woman
[11/2/2006] - PEMBROKE - The first thing Michelle ‘‘Nicole’’ Hill did after moving into her new apartment eight weeks ago was introduce herself to police and firefighters. link

Students Will Not Return To Guilford County High School Heavily Damaged By Fire
[11/2/2006] - GIBSONVILLE, N.C. -- Students will not return this year to Eastern Guilford High School, where a fire Wednesday destroyed the school and injured three firefighters, officials said. link

Fire Rips Through Orange County Charter School
[11/2/2006] - MAITLAND, Fla. -- Hundreds of Orange County students will not be able to return to their school until at least Monday. A fire broke out after classes let out Wednesday, WESH 2 News reported. link

Six Dead In Reno Hotel Fire
[11/1/2006] - RENO -- A woman was arrested Wednesday on arson and murder charges after a fire swept through a three-story hotel in Reno's downtown casino district, killing six people and injuring dozens of others. link