Fall In-Person Forum - New Brunswick, NJ - November 1 - 3

(with Optional ICC Training 10-31)

Quick Overview  |  Event Highlights | Costs | Hotel Info

Join us as we celebrate Triumph over Tragedy and look back "After the Fire".  This is a very special Campus Fire Forum, recognizing the Seton Hall victims,  the courage of the Seton Hall survivors, and also the progression of campus fire safety education, codes and standards over the last two + decades. While 2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the fire at Seton Hall, due to the worldwide pandemic, CCFS will recognize the courage and strength that came out of this tragedy in 2022.  Join us as we "Look back and forward to the Future".  Hosted by Rutgers and Montclair University.

SNEAK PEAK AS OUR AGENDA COMES TOGETHER

• Optional 6+ Hours ICC Training (October 31) with ICC CEU's
• Opening Session includes Mr. Rich Mikutsky, Director / State Fire Marshal, N.J. Division of Fire Safety
• Special Sessions with Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, After The Fire
• Daniel Madrzykowski, Fire Safety Research Institute, UL: A Look Back at Dormitory Fire Safety Research
• Tim Knisely, Training Manager, AFAA, Twenty Plus Years of Tragedy and Triumph
• Fire Alarm System Replacement Considerations, Larry D. Rietz, SET, Global Service Line Leader, Fire Detection & Alarm, Jensen Hughes, Inc.

Group Discussion Panels

• Triumph over Tragedy Panels - panels discussing the progression of fire safety education since the Seton Hall Fire.
  1) Seton Hall Survivors
  2) CCFS Leadership over the years, fire fatality statistics, and more.
  3) Students with Disabilities

• We've Come a Long Way Panels - panels discussion the past, present and hope for the future.
  1) Codes, Standards, Technology
  2) Fire Safety on and off campus

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 PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS

A Look Back at Dormitory Fire Safety Research,
by Daniel Madrzykowski, PhD, PE, FSFPE, Director of Research, UL Fire Safety Research Institute

In the wake of the Boland Hall fire on the Seton Hall Campus in 2000, the United States Fire Administration started an initiative to improve fire safety in college housing. USFA supported research to examine the levels of hazard created by fires in day rooms and sleeping rooms with and without automatic fire sprinklers. The value of smoke alarms and the impact of closed doors was also examined. This presentation will review the results of the dormitory fire experiments and look at their application to off campus housing.

Twenty Plus Years of Tragedy and Triumph,
Tim Knisely, Training Manager, Automatic Fire Alarm Association (AFAA)

From on-campus residence halls, fraternities and sororities, to off-campus living – all student housing brings unique dangers. We knew about some of the risks, but many fire tragedies over the years have highlighted why some of these were made worse. This presentation will examine some of these tragedies, the responses and what has been done to reduce the chances of it ever happening again. Learning Objectives include: Review case studies of fire causes and the impact on student housing. Look at how the educational programming has changed as it relates to fire safety ; Highlight how stakeholders have been included in the fire safety process; Examine how new codes, standards and technologies have been developed to reduce this risk.

Fire Alarm System Replacement Considerations,
Larry D. Rietz, SET, Global Service Line Leader, Fire Detection & Alarm, Jensen Hughes, Inc.

Be Fire Smart ™ by Sandy Mills-Alford, CEO, AliveTek 

2020 changed the nature of higher ed in many ways. Some of those ‘adjustments’ we were glad to leave behind, but others proved to be not only effective during a pandemic – but better. When social distancing prevented the use of the typical fire drill, Montclair State went online! Using Be Fire Smart! ^TM  training, they could be assured that students were learning essential information about these risks. By customizing the course, they were able to bring in their own policies and floor plans — delivering the right information to the right users — and getting time and date stamps showing when learners agreed to abide by the policies. By formalizing the training process, Montclair substituted the fire-drill based training, which – in the case of Shawn and Alvaro – led to fire-drill fatigue and a lack of urgency among students when a real fire did break out.  

(More to come)

 REGISTRATION FOR FALL FORUM:  INFO COMING SOON IN JUNE

COSTS AND DETAILS:

* Sponsors:  If you are an Annual Sponsor of CCFS with your dues current, and you are
exhibiting you are entitled to an additional discount per the Sponsorship Benefits Matrix. 
This will be applied as a credit after initial payment is made.

HOTEL:  The Heldrich, 10 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 214.2211

(ONLINE BOOKING WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON)

Taxes:  Room Tax 17.625% | State Tax 6.625% | Hotel Occupancy Tax 8.0% | Property Amenity Fee 4.0%
Parking Charges:  Coming Soon

TRANSPORTATION:  Coming soon.

EXHIBITOR INFO & SHIPPING:  Coming Soon

SPONSORSHIP:  Sponsor part of our forum, Dinner, Lunch, Breaks - info coming soon.