- Author
- Carson, P.
- Title
- Focus on Fire Safety Solutions for People with Disabilities. Report on Meeting, September 4 and 5, 2002.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Book or Conf
- Focus on Fire Safety Solutions for People with Disabilities. Report on Meeting, September 4 and 5, 2002, Washington, DC, Editors, 2003
- Keywords
- handicapped | fire safety | human beings | fire protection | life safety | fire prevention | education | children | elderly persons | fire protection engineering | evacuation | information dissemination | costs | escape means | decision making | human behavior | human actions | codes | regulations | cigarettes | sprinklers | planning | prefire planning
- Identifiers
- NFPA Center for High-Risk Outreach
- Abstract
- The national and international fire protection organizations that make up the North American Coalition for Fire and Life Safety Education met in 1997 to discuss the need for a concerted effort to reduce persistently greater fire deaths and injuries among high-risk populations. In April 1999, the coalition sponsored Solutions 2000, a symposium that brought the fire safety and advocacy communities together to address these concerns. The coalition's recommendations specifically targeted young children, older adults, and people with disabilities, focusing on education, engineering, and enforcement. Beyond Solutions 2000, a second symposium sponsored by the NFPA Center for High-Risk Outreach and funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was held in April 2001 to measure progress made on the first symposium's recommendations and to develop an action plan universal to the targeted high-risk groups. This plan specifically addressed the need for all fire safety and advocacy agencies to take collective responsibility in the areas of egress capability, early warning, and fire sprinkler protection.