Resources
Resolution:
 Right Click Here to download Model Resolution Supporting Residential Spklrs.
     
(Right click and choose "Save Target/Link As" to save to your hard drive)

Code Change Proposals (Hearing testimony in "Videos" below)
:
 Click Here to download Summary 2007-08 ICC Residential Spklr. Proposals.
 Click Here to download Proposal RB64-07/08.

Seminar Handout
 Click Here to download our residential sprinkler seminar handout.

Articles:
Click Here to download Chief Ron Coleman's article "The Time Has Come to
      Win the Sprinkler Battle" reprinted from March 2008 Fire Chief Magazine.
 Click Here to download three articles on residential sprinklers:
          A Paradigm Shift The: Future of Residential Sprinklers
            by Azarang (Ozzie) Mirkhah, P.E., EFO, CBO
          Piping a Residential Sprinkler System
            by Julius Ballanco, P.E.
          One Sentence to Change the Course of Fire Safety in America
            by Jeffrey M. Shapiro, P.E., FSFPE

Videos:
Marble Mountain Demonstration Burn
      
Courtesy Orange County, CA Fire Authority.  Includes a side-by-side
       comparison of fires with/without sprinklers.
       
Right Click Here (MP4 - 70MB)
       (Right click and choose "Save Target/Link As" to save to your hard drive)

Fresno Sprinkler Public Service Announcement, Courtesy Fresno (CA) Fire
       Department (a humorous approach to putting a firefighter in every home 24/7)
       Click Here to view online and access a link to download the video.

ICC Palm Springs Hearing Testimony  Code Proposals are listed below by the
       order of the Public Testimony at the Hearings on 2/25/08

      
RB67 Right Click Here - IRC proposal submitted by IAFC to provide
       residential sprinkler incentives.  Does not mandate sprinklers.
(MP4 - 33MB)
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       RB66 Right Click Here - IRC proposal submitted by AvalonBay
       Communities to provide residential sprinkler incentives for townhouses.  
       Mandates sprinklers for townhouses. (
MP4 - 9MB)
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       RB65 Right Click Here - IRC proposal submitted by City of Lenexa, KS, to
       require residential sprinklers in new townhouses with no new incentives.
      
(MP4 - 19MB)
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       RB62/RB63 Right Click Here - IRC proposals submitted by NASFM (RB62)
       and ASPE (RB63) to provide residential sprinkler in all new one- and two-
       family dwellings and townhouses with no new incentives. Proposal would
       mandate sprinklers for one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses.
      
(MP4 - 17.5MB)
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       RB64 Right Click Here - IRC proposal submitted by the IRC Fire Sprinkler
       Coalition to provide residential sprinklers in all new one- and two-family
       dwellings and townhouses with no new incentives. Proposal would mandate
       sprinklers for one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses with an effective
       date of 1/1/2011.
(MP4 - 10MB)
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       RB69 Right Click Here - IRC proposal submitted by NAHB to provide
       residential sprinkler incentives in IRC Appendix P.  Proposal does not mandate
       sprinklers in the body of the IRC.
(MP4 - 10.5MB)
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       RB70 Right Click Here - IRC proposal submitted by NAHB to provide
       residential sprinkler incentives in IRC Appendix P.  Proposal does not mandate
       sprinklers in the body of the IRC.
(MP4 - 2.5MB)
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