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The NFPA Podcast — 259 episodes

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1

Fire Protection in the Age of AI

2

CRR: The Good ... and Not So Good

3

The State of Electrical Safety

4

Is 911 in Trouble?

5

10 Years of Progress on Cancer

6

Flying Cars are Finally Here. Are they Safe?

7

How Australia is Tackling Wildfire

8

Manatee Rescue

9

The Data Center Boom

10

The Volunteer Crisis

11

Swiss Nightclub Fire Follows a Familiar and Tragic Script

12

Assessing the Needs of the U.S. Fire Service

13

Will Female Firefighters Soon Have Better Fitting Gear?

14

Testing the EV Toolbox

15

Cooking Fire Facts and Figures

16

Tilting the Wildfire Odds

17

Fire Protection Engineering's Shifting Landscape

18

How Clean is Clean?

19

Lithium-Ion Safety Messaging

20

Fire On Campus: Turning Pain Into Purpose

21

Lessons From Lewiston

22

Grenfell's Enduring Lessons

23

Fire Safety Challenges in East Africa

24

FDNY's Lithium-Ion Task Force

25

Safety Goes on Offense

26

Heat, the Silent Killer

27

Risk Reduction on Tribal Lands

28

The Mysteries of Electrical Injuries

29

Is It Alzheimer's, or Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?

30

The Construction Fire Problem

31

The Assault on Safety, Part 2

32

The Assault on Safety, Part 1

33

Making LA More Resilient

34

The Act that Transformed Fire Safety

35

Big Storage, Bigger Questions

36

The LA Wildfires

37

Artificial Intelligence and the Fire Service

38

A New Dawn for Smoke Alarms

39

International Hospital Fires

40

The Single Exit Stair Debate

41

Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems

42

Babcock Ranch and the Future of Resilient Design

43

Make Smoke Alarms Work For You

44

CRR's Hidden Challenges

45

AI and Safety Education

46

Protecting Micro-Distilleries

47

Can You Save Your Home from a Wildfire?

48

How Can We Get More New Homes Sprinklered?

49

The Vision for NFPA Global Solutions

50

Hazards in the Water

51

Why Electrical Safety Matters

52

How Do You Evacuate a Hospital?

53

Hoarding Risk-Reduction Strategies

54

Moral Injury and Suicide

55

What to Know About CO

56

Doing It Right: Energy Storage and Solar Installs

57

Where is AI Headed?

58

Artificial Intelligence and the Fire Service

59

Sustainability vs. Fire Protection

60

Short-Term Rentals: Risky Business

61

Re-Thinking Wildfire

62

Trauma and Risk

63

The Economic Impact of Fire Departments

64

Heat, the Silent Killer

65

The Survivors, Part 5: "Never Again"

66

The Survivors, Part 4: "Back into the Lion's Den"

67

The Survivors, Part 3: "Refinement by Fire"

68

The Survivors, Part 2: "The Aftermath"

69

The Survivors, Part 1: "One of 367,000"

70

A Battery in Every Garage?

71

How Virtual Reality Is Changing Firefighter Training

72

Is 911 In Trouble?

73

Grilling Safety

74

Can We End Cancer in the Fire Service?

75

Falls, Fires, and Older Adults

76

Giving Dampers Their Due

77

Diversity and the Fire Service

78

The Persistent Problem of Construction Fires

79

A Better Fit For Female Firefighters

80

America's First Paramedics

81

A New Fire Protection Handbook, 15 Years in the Making

82

Heating or Eating: The Fire Risks of Inflation

83

Riding the Tailboard

84

The Rising Dangers of Home Fires

85

Cooking Fires and Turkey Fryers

86

Babcock Ranch and the Future of Resilient Design

87

Flame Retardant Chemicals in Furniture

88

Energy, Climate, and California Burning

89

The Future of Fire Investigation

90

Fire on Campus: Turning Pain into Purpose

91

The New Foams

92

The Dangers of Wildfire Smoke Inhalation

93

The Failures Before the Fires

94

Are SMART Sprinklers the Next Big Thing?

95

Safety in Short-term Rental Properties

96

E-bike and E-scooter Fire Safety

97

An Arc-Flash Survivor's Story

98

Lessons from Grizzly Flats

99

Under Fire: Life for Responders in Ukraine

100

Drugs, Falls, and Fires

101

40 Years of Fire Research

102

Long COVID and the Fire Service

103

The Dangers of Static Electricity

104

'Working Together': Moving the US Fire Service Forward

105

One Week, Two Fires, 29 Deaths

106

Preventing Human Trafficking

107

Earned Wisdom, Part 2: Greg Cade

108

Earned Wisdom, Part I: Russ Sanders

109

One Standard, Not Three

110

Fire on the Ranch

111

Fires in Informal Settlements

112

What If You Can't 'Hear the Sounds of Fire Safety'?

113

The Surprise Battery Explosion

114

The Lasting Impact of 9/11

115

Fire Protection for Flying Taxis

116

The Push for Home Fire Sprinklers

117

40 Years of Fire Data

118

Demystifying Community Data

119

Four Years After Grenfell

120

Fires in Buildings Under Construction

121

Fires and Recreational Vehicles

122

Electrical Injuries on the Job and in the Home

123

How Public Safety Messaging Works

124

Reopening After Covid

125

The Evolving Science of Firefighting

126

A Cannabis Inspector's View

127

The Plan to 'Outthink Wildfire'

128

The Mysteries of Electrical Injuries

129

Cybersecurity in Building Systems

130

A Better Fit

131

Firefighter Resiliency

132

Codes, Training, and the Pandemic

133

Cooking Fires and the Holidays

134

Community Risk Reduction

135

Firefighting and Cancer

136

Addressing the Threat of Gas Explosions

137

The Wildfire Crisis

138

What is NFPA LiNK?

139

Disaster Planning During a Pandemic

140

Understanding the Beirut Explosion

141

Debunking Home Fire Sprinkler Myths

142

Remote Inspection Revolution

143

Our Battery-Powered World

144

Regulating the Legal Cannabis Industry

145

Civil Unrest from a First Responder's Perspective

146

Community Risk Reduction and COVID-19

147

Crisis Standards of Care

148

The COVID-19 Crisis in Europe

149

The Impending Health Care Surge

150

Responder Safety in a Pandemic

151

Rural America's EMS Crisis

152

International Hospital Fires

153

The Worcester Cold Storage Fire

154

The Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem

155

San Antonio's Deem Center

156

Escape Room Safety

157

Social Monitoring During Disasters

158

Fire Safety on Movie Sets

159

Saving Shantytowns

160

The Airbnb Challenge

161

Fire chiefs talk Hurricanes Harvey and Irma

162

Responding to Active Shooter Incidents - NFPA 3000

163

Combating Firefighter Cancer in Boston

164

Riding the Tailboards - An NFPA 1500 oral history

165

Life Safety at Cirque du Soleil

166

Being compliant with NFPA 101 and NFPA 99

167

Chief Billy Goldfeder from The Secret List

168

Issues addressed in 2017 National Electrical Code (NEC)

169

Working on Wildfire in South Africa

170

Quick February Update

171

Civil Unrest from a First Responder's Perspective

172

How are Local Fire Departments Handling Wildfire?

173

Engaging First Responders

174

Bringing Safety to Bangladesh Factories

175

Dust explosions and "color runs"

176

Rise of the Machines - Part 3 of 3

177

Rise of the Machines - Part 2 of 3

178

Rise of the Machines - Part 1 of 3

179

Food Truck Fire and Life Safety

180

NFPA 13 upcoming changes for the 2016 edition

181

Resilience

182

The Triangle Waist Company Fire - Part 2

183

The Triangle Waist Company Fire - Part 1

184

The Cost of Fire - Part 3

185

The Cost of Fire - Part 2

186

The Cost of Fire - Part 1

187

Winter Safety – Smoking

188

Winter Safety - Electrical

189

Winter Safety - Winter Storms

190

Winter Safety - Carbon Monoxide

191

Winter Safety - Home Heating

192

Winter Safety - Candles

193

Winter Safety - Holiday Decorations

194

Winter Safety - Cooking

195

2009 Fire Loss Report

196

2010 Fire Prevention Week

197

2009 Firefighter Fatality Report

198

NFPA + Disabilities

199

Renewable-Energy Technology and the NEC Part 2

200

Renewable-Energy Technology and the NEC Part 1

201

Kelvin Cochran Address Part 2

202

Kelvin Cochran Address Part 1

203

Fire-Safe Cigarettes

204

Certified Fire Protection Specialist

205

Home Fire Sprinklers Study

206

Electric Vehicle Safety Part 2

207

Electric Vehicle Safety Part 1

208

NFPA 654 Updates

209

NFPA 99 and Wet Work

210

The Regency House Fire - Part 2

211

The Regency House Fire - Part 1

212

Looking Ahead to 2010

213

The Growing Threat of Wildfires

214

Residential Fire Sprinklers & Water Supply - Part 1

215

Residential Fire Sprinklers & Water Supply - Part 2

216

Codes & Standards Information Updates

217

Emergency Evacuation - part 2

218

Emergency Evacuation - part 1

219

NFPA Codes & Standards

220

The 2010 Edition of NFPA 72

221

Helping Communities Prevent Arson

222

Vacant Homes and Arson

223

Campus Fire Safety

224

Fire Prevention Week Preview

225

High Rise Building Fires

226

Lightweight Construction Fire Test

227

NFPA's New iTunes Application

228

Firefighter Fatalities Report

229

Patterns of Firefighter Fireground Injuries

230

2009 NFPA Conference & Expo

231

NFPA 80 Updates

232

Home Fire Sprinklers

233

Vacant Building Fire Report

234

NFPA 3, Commissioning and Integrated Testing of Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems

235

Arson Awareness Week

236

Updates to NFPA 72

237

Working at NFPA

238

NFPA 400

239

Using Elevators in an Emergency

240

NFPA.ORG's New Look

241

Fire Safety Challenges in Storage Occupancies

242

Research "Renaissance"

243

Evacuation solutions for people with disabilities

244

March 2009

245

February 2009

246

Message for President Obama

247

January 2009

248

Thermal Capacity of Protective Clothing report

249

December 2008

250

2008 Home Heating Survey

251

The EQ Hazardous Waste Facility Fire Investigation

252

November 2008

253

October 2008

254

Lake View School Fire

255

Positive Pressure Ventilation Test

256

September 2008

257

2008 Fire Prevention Week Interview - Part 1

258

2008 Fire Prevention Week Interview - Part 2

259

The 2007 Home Heating Report