https://www.yahoo.com/gma/school-bus-driver-lauded-saving-20-children-inferno-230340895–abc-news-topstories.html  

General Fire is pleased to announce Diane Snyder has joined the General Fire Sales Team. Diane has more than 15 years in experience selling to the Fire Protection Industry.

      TOMS RIVER – A school bus suddenly burst into flames while traveling on Old Freehold Road early Wednesday morning. Toms River police officer Michael Cassady responded to the area of Old Freehold Road and Dugan Lane on Wednesday morning for a reported      vehicle fire. Authorities said Toms River School Bus 279 […]

  See related article on California bus crash. http://news.yahoo.com/feds-revisit-safety-rules-calif-bus-crash-053825497.html    

According to RiverTowns.net, a logging company in Wisconsin was fined $600,000 following an investigation into the cause of a fire that burned 7,442 acres of forest in May 2013. The investigation discovered that the company had failed to maintain an on-board fire extinguishing system on their Timberjack 840 harvesting equipment. They had bought the equipment […]

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9316821   General Fire specializes in the installation of school bus fire suppression systems. NJ requires all para transit vehicles to be  equipped with fire suppression systems. Why aren’t all school buses required to have fire suppression systems?

October is Fire Protection and Prevention Month. The National Fire Protection Association has designated Oct. 6-12th as Prevent Kitchen Fire Awareness Week!  More information and training material can be found at www.nfpa.org/safety-information/fire-prevention-week Go To FPW.org and get Cookin’ with Fire Safety!

In 2012, a Fire Department in the US responded to a fire somewhere in the nation every 23 seconds. A fire occurred in a structure every 66 seconds, a home fire occurred every 85 seconds. Every 156 seconds, a vehicle caught fire, and every 46 seconds there was a fire in an outside property. The […]