Fire Safety is Green

One of the key points the National Association of State Fire Marshals and its partners want to convey through this effort is that fire safety – both preventing fires from occurring in the first place and quickly suppressing fires that do ignite – is a very “green” concept. This project intends to help jump-start the cultural shift in thinking that is needed to bridge the two concepts of fire safety and green.

Every fire that occurs in a building represents a grave threat not only to the lives of occupants and emergency responders, but also to the environment.
Think about the toxic smoke and harmful chemicals released into the air by the fire. Think about the water – not only in the use of huge quantities of water needed to put out the fire when a fire department responds, but the runoff that is carrying all those products of combustion into our fields, streams and water supplies.
Think about the accumulated debris and hazardous (as well as non-hazardous) waste from the building itself and its contents that either remains on-site or is hauled into landfills.

Then there are the resources used to re-build the structure, which also adds to the carbon footprint. It soon becomes very clear that every fire that is prevented protects the environment!

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