Jim, Presuming everything goes down with the Legislature as recommended by the Codes Council we'll have a pretty good situation. Although the residential paragraphs will be moved back to the annex (or is it still appendix with I-Codes?) local jurisdictions will be able to adopt there own ordinances without getting Codes Council approval which has always been the cliff at the end of the road. Although my fire guy side says mandating the rule universally from the state level serves my own agenda and purposes, both business and opinion wise, local rule, whenever possible, is the more democratic approach. We'll see if the builders are well enough organized at a local level to argue dollars (and vacuous dollars at that) versus burning babies. If Yakima has problems with an ordinance there is the Washington Residential Fire Sprinkler Coalition to call on for help with documentation and testimony. It (or we since I'm an active participant) are very organized and have the full weight of the Washington Fire Chiefs and the Washington State Association of Fire Marshal's behind us as well as WSRB, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, etc. behind us. Go to www.afsanw.org and click on the Residential Sprinkler Video. The Coalition produced this with grant money from AFSA and AFSA/PacNW Chapter and the good folks here in the Media Dept. at Bates in cooperation with the Bremerton Fire Dept., the Kitsap County Fire Marshal and the Bremerton Housing Authority (I hope I got everybody) and is indicative of what we can pull off.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jim Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: > Good for California!! I wish the home builder idiots, building association > idiots, and our State Building Code idiots, could open their eyes and see > that a life is worth more than whatever the going square foot price is! > > Jim Johnston, P.E. > Fire Protection Engineer > Inland Fire Protection, Inc > 1100 Ahtanum Road > Yakima, WA 98903 > Phone 509-248-4471 > Fax 509-248-1180 > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: steve [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:46 AM > To: AFSA > Subject: CA adoption > > The state of California adopted the 2009 IRC yesterday with State FM > amendments, including the residential sprinkler provisions. Thanks to all > AFSA members who worked on task groups to help smooth this process including > Byron Weisz, Tod Emery, Tom McKinnon and Terri Leyton, as well as our > friends at NFSA. Congrats to acting CSFM Tonya Hoover for her leadership > and energies in making this happen. > > Steve > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA Member: SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, WSAFM _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
