Members Celebrate Milestone Anniversaries The American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) is recognizing members who are celebrating milestone membership anniversaries. The member companies featured here have belonged to AFSA for 15 or more years of continuous membership. “As we bring 2020 to a close, it sure is nice to have something …
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Proactively Shaping Policy More than ever, the fire-sprinkler community needs to be proactive in helping political candidates work toward commonsense solutions in the areas of our workforce, workers’ compensation, tax, regulation, healthcare, economic development, and labor. The American Fire Sprinkler Association’s Florida Chapter (AFSA-FL) has been successful in this process, …
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Upcoming Technical and Managerial Webinars Offer Continuing Education Unit Credits Join the American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) for upcoming webinars geared toward fitters, technical, and managerial staff. These webinars all offer continuing education units (CEUs), and continuing professional development points (CPDs). NFPA 25 and 72: Developing and Integrating Your ITM …
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Fire Sprinkler Advocate of the Year Celebrated The American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) was pleased to honor Maryland State Fire Marshal Brian S. Geraci and present him with AFSA’s 2020 Fire Sprinkler Advocate of the Year award at a dinner celebration on October 27 at Olive Grove restaurant in Linthicum …
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Students Benefit From Education Since its creation in 1996, the American Fire Sprinkler Association’s (AFSA) Scholarship Contests have sought to promote the scholarship outside of the fire sprinkler industry in the hope of reaching students who may otherwise never have recognized the importance of automatic fire protection. Now entering its …
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Hear From AFSA’s New President Members of the American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) and fire sprinkler industry were excited to learn of the hiring of industry veteran Bob Caputo, CFPS, as AFSA’s president. Caputo has been an important part of this industry for over 41 years and is a long-time …
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Wow! Talk about living the dream. I am so very honored and appreciative at having been selected to serve our industry as the new president of AFSA. As anyone who knows me will attest, I have always been passionate about fire and life safety, and especially the benefits of fire …
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Ted Wills Re-Elected Chair of the Board The American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) held its 2020-2021 officer elections during the September 2020 Board meeting. Ted Wills, president of Anchor Fire Protection Company, Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, was re-elected as Chair of the Board. Other officers re-elected were At-Large Director and First Vice …
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Endowed Scholarship Funds the Future of Fire Protection The Center for Life Safety Education (CLSE) and the American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) are pleased to announce the 2020-2021 Philip L. De Camara, Jr. Scholarship recipient is James (Jimmy) Baldwin. The scholarship was established to honor a man who was dedicated …
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Lessons Learned From My Father I’ve always believed that the American dream is to own your own business or, in most cases, to be promoted to the highest rank of management within a company. While this was my dream, I was quick to find out that this was much more …
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