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Following home fire killing three, fire chief speaks up about fire sprinklers and “preventable fire deaths”
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By nfpa@jiveon.com A recent home fire literally has kept a former fire chief up at night. “It is just after 5:30 a.m. as I write this, and I’m doing so now because I cannot sleep,” retired deputy fire chief Brian Maltby, wrote in a letter to the Toronto Star. “The
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