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Safety experts reveal how to pick the right fire extinguisher type for your home

Fire extinguishers are absolutely essential to help you protect your property from preventable damage, but do you know how to ...
Firehouse

Past installments of this series introduced the strategic classification of building construction. Ordered strategically, based on perceived fire resistance, the five basic ...

Because a Type IV building is more robust and thus more fire resistive — strategically — than a leaner Type III building, they are listed out of order numerically. The August 2009 installment ...