Sprinkler Bill In Harrisburg

[AmbRider]

Ok the PA House and Senate in Harrisburg have been very busy and as many may have herd on the news the Senate has said they are done for the remainder of the year and will not be returning after their "Election Break". Well I for one don't trust them and we must keep the fight going cause money talks and we all know that each of the elected officals need to get that money from the special interest groups to stockpile their campaign war chest.

Yesterday the Sprinkler Bill was brought to the senate floor for a vote and a provission was added to HB 1196 that would give a one year extension on the January 1, 2011 current deadline to impliment sprnklers in all new construction SFD's. As a result of a 37-12 vote the Senate passed this amendment and sent it back to the House Rules Committee to debate with a possible vote on the house floor to come.

Here are the 12 senators that stood up for firefighter and civilian safety and voted to not ammend the current bill. Senators Farnese, Greenleaf, Hughes, Kitchen, Leach, Mcilhinney, Stack, Tartaglione, Tomlinson, Washington, Waugh (One of our own from York County), and Williams.

Now we need to keep the pressure on the House members and make sure that the ammendment doesn't get approved in the house. What we all need to do is contact our local house of representatives and tell them to not support the ammendment to HB 1196. With limited days left in the house session calendar I could see this run through the House Rules Committee very fast.

Some may ask what is wrong with a 1 year extension. Well the issue here is life safety for both the community and the firefighters and if we allow the 1 year extension to happen all we are doing is giving the PBA a 1 year extension to buy votes in the house and senate and have the entire code removed which has been their intention from the start. We need to put a stop to this and make sure the current ammendment doesn't pass.

EVERYONE PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL HOUSE REPESENTATIVE AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON HB1196 WITH THE AMMENDMENT.

Also if your not signed up yet please go to www.pesla.org and sign up for our legislative alerts so you can be kept up to date on all the happenings as they relate to the emergency service community.

[gtp99]

Senator Waugh was actually President of New Franklin Fire Co. at one time and I have spoken with him a few times. He is a great guy that always supports emergency services. Vote for him next month if you can.

[AmbRider]

We need you to voice your opposition to HB1196 Today!!! HB1196 would delay Residential Sprinklers and is in the House Rules Committee

Contact your legislator and voice your opposition TODAY by going on www.PESLA.org and senting a letter voiceing your opposition to HB1196

HB1196 was amended in the Senate and voted out of the Senate to be considered by the House Rules Committee. We need to voice our unified opposition to this or ANY legislation that would change the Residential Sprinkler Requirement for NEW Construction in Pennsylvania!

This legislation WILL save the lives of Pennsylvania's firefighters!

[AmbRider]

After a long day at the capitol it appears that the Sprinkler Code will stay in tacked with the implementation date for all new construction single family dewellings of Jan 1, 2011.

I want to thank everyone who took the time to contact their elected officals and voice their opposition to HB 1196. It's these actions that went unnoticed by the elected officals.

We need to keep doing this and not just when heated issues come up. To get more active you can go to www.pesla.org and sign up for our legistlative alerts which will give you information on all that is happening in Harrisburg and DC releated to the emergency services as a whole.

Again thanks for all of your hard work and helping kill this bill.

[AmbRider]

It's a new session and the PBA are already out in full force in Harrisburg. We need to stay strong like we did last session and make sure this code is not removed or made weaker!

Residential Sprinklers NEED Your Support!

RURAL Firefighters we NEED you to stand up and be heard!!!

As a new year begins, so does the struggle to maintain Pennsylvania's current Building Code and it's Firefighter and Civilian life saving Residential Sprinkler requirements! Opponents of this sensible and necessary requirement are already spending money and time spreading their 'influence' around Harrisburg in order to gut this requirement and many others from the codes and send our Commonwealth backwards!

A particular issue of consideration for our State Senate members is the continually mis-represented cost of Sprinkler installation, particularly in Rural Homes that are on wells! While it is true that the cost of installing Sprinklers in NEW Rural Construction on a well system is slightly higher than those on a municipal water system, the benefits far outweigh the nominal amount of extra investment in safety during construction.

In rural areas that already have severely limited water supply and a limited number of or no hydrants at all, sprinkler systems not only save lives and property...they save precious water resources! It has been PROVEN again and again that sprinklers reduce fire damage, but in the case of a rural water supply they can save much more than property!

For more information on the accurate costs and benefits of ALL Residential Sprinkler systems, please feel free to contact the PA Fire & Emergency Services Institute at 1-800-FIRELINE in PA or 717-236-5995 outside PA.

You may also obtain accurate and objective information at the USFA website: www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/home_fire_prev/sprinklers and through the Federally Supported Residential Fire Safety Institute: www.firesafehome.org/

Also go to www.pesla.org and send your elected officals in Harrisburg a letter in regards to Sprinklers and firefighter safety.

[AmbRider]

We have been heard in the Senate about Residential Sprinklers, it's time to let the House of Representative and also the Media know too!

Residential Sprinklers NEED your Support in the House Too!!!

Let your State Representative know what PA's Emergency Responders Think!

You've let your Senators know what you think about the Residential Sprinkler requirements and Pennsylvania's current Building Code...now let your State Representative know too!
A particular issue of consideration for our State Representatives is the continually mis-represented cost of Sprinkler installation, particularly in Rural Homes that are on wells! While it is true that the cost of installing Sprinklers in NEW Rural Construction on a well system is slightly higher than those on a municipal water system, the benefits far outweigh the nominal amount of extra investment in safety during construction.

In rural areas that already have severely limited water supply and a limited number of or no hydrants at all, sprinkler systems not only save lives and property...they save precious water resources! It has been PROVEN again and again that sprinklers reduce fire damage, but in the case of a rural water supply they can save much more than property!

For more information on the accurate costs and benefits of ALL Residential Sprinkler systems, please feel free to contact the PA Fire & Emergency Services Institute at 1-800-FIRELINE (in) PA or 717-236-5995 (outside PA). You may also obtain accurate and objective information at the USFA website: www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/home_fire_prev/sprinkler... and through the Federally Supported Residential Fire Safety Institute: www.firesafehome.org/