In the late evening of February 29th, my husband and I were on our way home from vacation. Tired from our three-hour drive from the airport in Baltimore, Maryland to Selbyville, Delaware, we saw flashing lights in the distance. [...]
June 19, 2017 – Common Voices, an advocates’ coalition determined to create a fire safe America, announces the launch of its newly redesigned website, www.FireAdvocates.org. It provides resources and information to assist fire departments and fire safety advocates with [...]
In 1992, a house fire forever changed my life and the life of a six-week-old infant. I am a nurse and this infant became my patient after the house fire he was in left him legally blind and forever [...]
On April 6, 2017, Common Voices partnered with the National Fire Sprinkler Association and fire chiefs from across the nation to share information about the Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act (H.R. 1481/S. 602). With teams that included advocates, paired up [...]
January 6, 2017 – On New Year's Day morning two apartment fires raged in Massachusetts. Fire ripped through a Holyoke apartment building claiming the lives of three residents and displaced over 50 others. Fire also quickly raced through a [...]
September 26, 2016 – Common Voices is working to provide education regarding modern fire and the threat it poses following last week's fire in Plainfield, CT that claimed that life of a six-‐year-‐old girl and left her mother fighting [...]
December 9, 2015 – Lynn, Massachusetts just experienced something that no town or community wants to experience, a fire in an apartment building without fire sprinklers. This fire leaves 4 citizens dead, and many with emotional scars that won’t heal [...]
May 7, 2015 – Press release courtesy of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Fire Sprinkler Association: The theme of the PSA is “If you had the power to prevent fire injuries and deaths, wouldn’t you use it?” It [...]