National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control

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Materials relating to events leading up to the establishment of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, its meetings and hearings and the subsequent America Burning report along with PL93-498.

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Survey and analysis of occupant-installable smoke detectors: a summary report

The Smoke Detector Survey and Analysis Program for the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration was designed to accomplish five primary
objectives, namely:
1. Identify domestic manufacturers of residential smoke detectors, and tabulate…

Speech of the NCFPC Chairman, Richard Bland, to the NY State Fireman's Association, August 20, 1975

Chairman Bland's speech provides a unique, concise overview of the fire problem in America and traces the evolution of thinking on the subject of fire prevention and control from the earliest days of the republic up to the present and in particular…

Fire experience: 1968 - 1974

With this report, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration (NFPCA) initiates its reporting on fire loss experience and analysis for the US Federal Government. Included in the appendix are the data for the years 1968-1973, thus making…

Remarks of Chairman Richard E. Bland, National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control at Banquet of the Symposium on Products of Combustion of (plastics) building materials, March 26, 1973

"I anticipated the Chairmanship of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control as a privilege and as an exciting experience. It has through these months become far more than that.. it is a total all-encompassing adventure. Of course, the…

Letter from Governor Ronald Reagan to President Richard Nixon

Thanks the President for naming Albert Hole, California State Fire Marshal, to the Commission.