My heartfelt congratulations to everyone in New Jersey who made this happen, you have saved lives ! That’s a thousand times better than what's happed here in Kansas. Code official have been cut off at the knees thanks to the combined efforts of the HBA and the Realtor's Association. Local city and county cannot require sprinklers in single family housing
I guess that the citizens of New jersey are more important than people in Kansas and deserve the protection of a residential fire sprinkler system. As a fire service professional and a paramedic with over 25 years of experience I can tell you exactly what will happen in a home without fire sprinklers. Furthermore, I can tell you that the two most likely places these residents will relocate to: The Burn Center or The Morgue. Here is the Kansas law that will be responsible for the deaths and injuries to numerous Men, Women, Children and the elderly, and who knows how many firefighters: Kansas Statute 12-16,219. Cities, counties; prohibition on fire sprinkler requirements in certain residential dwellings. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Municipality" means any city or county. (2) "Residential structure" means any improvement to real property to be used or occupied as a single-family dwelling or multi-family dwelling of two attached living units or less or any manufactured home. (b) No municipality shall adopt or enforce any ordinance, order, code, standard or rule requiring the installation of a multi-purpose residential fire protection sprinkler system or any other fire sprinkler protection system in any residential structure. Nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from voluntarily installing a multi-purpose residential fire protection sprinkler system or any other fire sprinkler protection system in a residential structure. (c) No municipality shall require the installation of a multi-purpose residential fire protection sprinkler system in any residential structure as a condition for consideration or approval of any building permit or plat. History: L. 2010, ch. 116, § 25; L. 2011, ch. 43, § 1; Apr. 14. Very sorrowfully yours, Capt. Frank J. Herrick _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
