Fire Protection Podcast

The Canadian Fire Alarm Association (CFAA) is a member-supported, non-profit association established in 1973 to unite and support Canada's fire alarm industry. Today, we have over 400 members and over 3000 registered fire alarm technicians.

Troy Life & Fire Safety Ltd. is a private corporation established in 1979. It focuses on customer service, offering Canada's comprehensive lineup of fire alarms, fire suppression, and security products.

For over 60 years, NOTIFIER has been in a leadership position in the fire alarm industry. Today we are the largest manufacturer of engineered fire alarm systems, with over 400 distributors worldwide and regional support operations on every continent, helping to ensure we provide the flexibility and options your business needs. Our commitment to products and partnerships propels NOTIFIER to stand proudly above the rest.

Inspect Point is a software platform that helps fire & life safety professionals run their business from inspection to collection. With Inspect Point, companies like yours can ensure efficient and profitable operations while better-protecting customers’ properties and communities.

Dyne Fire Protection Labs is an independent testing laboratory serving customers throughout the world. They provide quick, easy, and accurate testing with our free kits and shipping for most kits, and their test reports are in your inbox in five business days.

Inspect Point is a software platform that helps fire & life safety professionals run their business from inspection to collection. With Inspect Point, businesses like yours can ensure efficient and profitable operations while better-protecting customers’ properties and communities.

In this conversation, experts from Potter delve into IntelliView, a cloud-connected platform, discussing its origins in nitrogen generators and its expansion to integrate various Potter products like fire alarms and leak rate monitors. They highlight the evolution toward cloud connectivity, integrations into IntelliView, and advancements in fire and sprinkler systems. The discussion covers topics such as emergency wireless communication systems, aspirating detection, and the availability of training resources and webinars on Potter’s website. Join in to explore the innovative strides in fire protection technology and cloud-connected solutions.

 0:02 - Intro
1:25 - Looking Up Everywhere You Go
3:40 - Who is Matt Bass?
3:57  - A Great Mentor
8:26 -  The Importance of Giving Back
9:51 -  My Trusty NFPA 25 Handbook
10:45 -  YouTube Videos
12:28 -  NFPA 25 Inspectors Group
14:57 - Open Feedback
15:42 -  Hey, There’s Bob Caputo!
16:23 -  Not to Name Drop but Tracy Demy, Ralph Bliss, Tom Parish
17:15 - “Just When I Thought I Was Out…”
17:49 - Need a Job in Antarctica?
20:22 - A Love of Helping People 
21:50 - Make a Group Anywhere
23:36 - It’s Global
24:44 -  Need Photos of a Specific Sprinkler Head Deficiency?
25:58 - Sarcasm & Snark: We Love to Roast Each Other
26:46 - Our Industry Works Hard and Plays Hard
28:24-  Lots of Consolidation in Fire Protection
31:19 - The Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Commanders Trying to be one Team
32:06 - People Starting Their Small Businesses
33:33 - The Age Gap: Younger People Need to Step Up
35:09 - The Experienced People Need to Teach the Next Gen the Details
36:13 - Learn Everything You Possibly Can
37:36 - Quick Response Round!
37:50  - Coolest  New Product in Fire Protection
38:06 - Flex Heads!
39:48 - Favorite “Star Wars” Movie?
40:30 - “Return of the Jedi”
40:57 - A Bar? Nope, A Toy Store
41:44- Favorite Dry Pipe Valve?
42:06 - Don’t Over-Engineer Every
44:17 - Wrapping Up
45:07 - Where to Find Matt, aka. Maddie
47:45 - Money isn’t Everything
48:36 - Helping Someone is Worth More Than Dollars
48:59 - Until Next Time

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 0:02 - Intro
 3:20 - The History of SDi and Detector Testers
 4:55 -  Cable Strippers and No Climb Products
 6:33  - SDi and Detectors Taking over the World
11:44 -  Codes and Standards all over the Globe
14:34 - Must be Well-Rounded
15:38 -  New Technologies in Detection
16:26 -  Cans of Smoke vs. Electronic Smoke
17:20 -  Canned Smoke is not Dolphin  or EPA-friendly
20:41 - The Rick and Oliver Show
21:01 -  Cans of Smoke are Hazardous in the Air and in the Heat
22:15 -  NFPA 72 and  ULC Changes
23:32 - The NFPA Standards Process
24:55 - Cybersecurity and Remote Access
25:42 - Software is usually Ahead of the Times
26:50 - COVID Accelerated Remote Access
27:58 - New Environmental Sustainability Groups 
30:15-  Smoke and Heat Testing with a Digital Record
31:12 - Digital Records Create Reports - Automatically
32:21 - Oliver Demonstrates the Testifire XTR2
33:55-  A Detector Communicating to Software
34:17 - It's All About Deficiencies - Identifying and Fixing Them
35:47 - Works on Everything - even 40-year-old Detectors!
38:31 - The All Singing and All Dancing System
39:26 - Protection from Liability with Digital Reports
40:32 - SDi and Detector Testers Try to Recruit Drew
41:39 - SDi and Detector Tester Partnership with Inspect Point
42:00  - Living in a Software World
45:24 - Quick Response Round!
46:00 - Rick is on NFPA 461 for Spaceports!
47:57 - A Straight-Talking Dutchman
48:16 - Oliver's Football Clubs
48:52 - Pork Roll or Taylor Ham?
49:30 - Wrap-Up

 0:02 - Intro
 3:20 - Almost a Lawyer
 4:10 -  Navy Vets in Fire Protection
 6:33  - Mentors
 9:20 -  Bob is Humble
11:42 - Teaching
12:18 - The Godfather of All Things Fire & Life Safety
14:35 - DOL Approvals
17:20 - COVID Taught Us About Virtual Training
17:38 - New AFSA Location in Texas
18:21 - Labs & Classrooms
21:20 - Electronic Reporting & Transmitting is the Way to Go
22:39 - NFPA Annex is a Great Tool
23:50 - Terradactyl Bytes
24:13 - The Feel of Pipe in Your Hands
25:51 - More Opportunities 
26:10 - Not All Hollywood Deluge Systems
26:41  - When Seconds Count
27:13 - Nepo Babies
27:48 - Need to Reach Kids Sooner
28:42 - Contractors Need to Join an Organization Like AFSA
29:38 - One Tech Support Call or Email and it Pays for Itself
30:39 - Biggest Fire Sprinkler Show in the World
33:10 - Dope & Tape
34:33 - Opening Party Will Be Magical!
36:10 - Fire Protection Industry Evolution & Other “Bobservations” 
38:51 - New Type of Fire Inspectors
40:20 - ITM is Bulletproof
41:14 - Three Biggest Causes of Fire
42:35 - Quick Response Round!
44:02 - Wrap-Up

0:06 -  Fire Protection Terminology
 2:34  - Intro to Scott MacRitchies
 3:39  - Steve /Ulmer & the Buffalo Bills
 5:00 -  A Found Industry
 5:17  - Drew has been in Fire Protection for 20 years
 5:40 -  LBX Global & Smart Infrastructure
 7:04  - FireM
 7:45 -  Fire Panel Data Points
 8:22  - Capturing Insights 
 9:20  - Upgrading what is already in Place
10:10 - My Dishwasher tells me when it's finished 
11:00 - Connected IoT
12:23 - Pain Points for Technicians
13:35 - How to Attract Young People to Fire Protection
15:01 - Roll a Truck only when you really need to
16:10 - Third-Party Device
17:13 - All Data in One Place
19:03  - Carbon Copies?
21:50  - Used to be hours, then minutes, and now seconds
24: 40 - A Little Box
25:54 -  Going Mobile?
31:02 -  We are a Conduit
33:36 - “My Panel is Beeping.”
34:14 - In Other IoT News & Trends in Manufacturing
36:10 - We are all becoming Friends
37:38 - Co-petitors
38:00 -NFPA - FireM at Booth #442
39:09 -Nathan Brown, FireM’s inventor, will be there
39:57 - New Products, including Fire Extinguisher Monitoring
41:20 - Healthcare Hand Portables
41:44 - Looking for Feedback
43:30 - Hit the Inspect Point Button!
44:00 - Fast Round
44:20 - Favorite Installation?
45:10 - Favorite Suppression System?
46:02 - Scott’s Favorite Suppression System is in the Future!
47:04 - Table Smash?
48:20 - Wrap Up

See you at NFPA!

0:05 - Intro
1:15   - Todd has been on the FPP before (Episode #38)
1:25  - Intro to Industrial Fire Protection (IFP) and SEVO Systems
3:20 - Todd's favorite Special Hazard
4:37  - Moynihan Train Hall's fantastic flame detectors
5:40 -  Fire Detection is the Brains of it 🧠
5:54  -  IFP & Clean Energy
6:26  - Energy Storage System (ESS) Market
6:49 -  Lithium Ion Batteries
7:41  -  Importance of Detection
8:17  -  What are we trying to protect?
8:41 -   What tech does what?
9:26 -  Tesla
10:35 - We've learned a lot in the last 3 - 5 years
10:45 - Who's issue is it? Fire? Battery?
11:00 - Big emphasis on moving to electric everything
11:20 - Drew wants a power wall
11:57 -  Todd won't park an electric car in his garage
12:40 - The Jetsons
12:50  - A Software Solution?
13:18  -  A new arm of Inspect Point?
13:40  - New projects for IFP?
14:06 -  Aviation Market
14:52 - Alternatives to Foam
15:20 - New Ideas for the industry
15:34 - The mess of foam safety
16:30 - Changes in thinking
16:38 - Foam manufacturers have gone through a lot
17:17 - Fluorine-free options
17:33 - Can systems be easily swapped out?
18:37 - How does clean agent fire protection work?
21:25 - The approval process for clean agents
22:40 - New technologies included in NFPA standards
24:27 - ARFF!
27:50 - Just what are we protecting?
28:56 - Paging Mr. Aaron Johnson!
30:40 - Electric Planes
31:34 - Technology opens doors in fire protection
32:37 - Paging Mr. John Demeter!
33:27 - American Innovation & Manufacturing Act (AIM)
33:41 - The HFC Debate
35:59 - HFC cuts coming well before the 2035 cut-off date
36:49 - Drew pulls from his brain 🧠
37:13 - 3M's Big Stir in the industry
38:27 - FK-512  and 3M™ Novec™ 1230 
39:30 - PFAS is being rebranded - some are non-toxic
41:00 - Back in the day...
41:40 - Barry White Voice
42:20 - SEVO Systems & FK512
43:40 - There's PFAS in Prozac
45:00 - Quick Response Round!
46:00 - Lobsta! 🦞
47:00 Trade show love
50:00 - Evil Empires & Wrap up

 0:05 -   Drew's Intro
 0:30  -  Who is Peerless? 
  1:20  -  The #1 Fire Pump City is NYC 
  1:30  -   What is Travis's Background?
  2:20  -  The Digital Transformation 
  3:15   -  Fire Protection World lags in Digitalization
  5:05 -  When you Need a Fire Pump, you Really Need a Fire Pump
  5:40  -  Code Cycles
  6:01 -    Smart Systems in a Home vs. for Fire Pumps
  7:02  - Lots of Data Collected
  7:07 -  Data Can Now Come to You
  8:00 - Things Changed Post-COVID
  8:20 -  Testing Frequency & Staffing
  9: 15 -  What Fire Pump? We Don't Have a Fire Pump.
10:30  -  Visibility = Better Protection 
  11:10 -   NFPA25 Section Re-Write 
  11:48 -  Perks to NFPA25 Re-Write With Remote Monitoring
 12:30 -  Remote Testing?
 13:15 -  Constant Flow of Data
 14:10 -  Can See What Happens in the System in between Inspections
14:20  - Digitization vs.  Digitalization 
15:30 -  Saves Manhours 
17:36 -  Will Always Need Technicians
19:43 - Hardware vs. Software
21:08 -  80 to 100 Points of Data
23:00 - How Does it All Work?  
23:40 - How Do You Avoid Hacking?
26:26 -  Biggest Adopters So Far
28:56 -  Who Should Get This? Building Owners or ITM Contractors?
31:30 -   Efficiency of Knowing What the System Needs Before Going to It
32:00 -  Various Costs
40:30 - The Steps of the Digital Revolution in Fire Pumps
41:01  -   The System Calls a Tech to Come to Fix It
42:30 -  Want to Know More? 
43: 03 - Join Us For a Webinar on 12/7
43: 31  -  Functionality During a Live Incident
44:20 -  Can Know if Fire is Contained
45: 04 - Can Alert Fire Brigade
46: 27 - It's All About Safety  
46:50  - Drew's Outro & Contact Info for Travis

 0:15 -   Drew's Intro from Antarctica 
  1:39  -  Intro from Canada
  1:54 -   Shout out to Troy Life & Fire Safety 
  2:09  - Conversion to Listed Antifreeze
  3:20  - What is out there?
  4:17   -  Sean, who are you? 
  5:30 -  Supply Chain
  5:50  -  NFPA25 and Older Systems
  7:34  -  Is a Dry System Better?
   9:18   - Will there be a TIA?
 10:07 -  How Many Old Systems are Out there? 
   11:13 -  The Contractor Still has the Liability
12:05  -  Refractometers & other new Tools
13:17  -  The Field Testing Challenge: it's a Science Experiment
16:38  -  Huge Challenge for Contractors
19:00 -   When there were Large Vats of Glycerine!
22:58  - ESFR
26:50  - What's Next?
28:01  -  Get Trained
29:44  -  Sugar & Concrete
32:09  -  NYC DOB
35:43  - Canadian Socks
37:55 -  Inspection Software Makes it Easy for AHJs
39:00  - Fire Sprinklers Save Lives
39:40  - Outro

0:15 -   Introduction
2:10   -  Remember the Pandemic?
3:09 -  The Pre-Engineered Systems Niche 
6:04  -  Why a Dry Chemical System?
7:20   -  NFPA420 - Extraction Booths
13:03 - The Restaurant Industry is Evolving
14:05 - Ventless Solutions & Fireballs
16:14  -  More Electric Appliances in Restaurants
23:42 - More Rigorous Standards, Testing, Reporting, and Repairing 
28:18  - Labor Shortage
32:06 - Recession, but Everybody Has to Eat
33:50 -  International Changes in Restaurant Fire Protection
41:30  -  Electrical Detection
46:46  - The Jetsons is now
50:11   -  The Barista Bot
51:47  -   Please Reach out to Jamie with What You See
53:34  - Welding for Five Year Olds
54:20  - Wrap-Up
57:10   - Outro
 

0:41 -   Peter’s Introduction
2:56 -   SSi Background
4:52 -   Greensol & Clean Agent Protection
9:20 -   SNAP (Significant New Alternative Policy) / Eco-Friendly
11:05 -  What is FirePASS?
16:47 -  Secondary Systems?
17:44 -  Room Integrity & FirePASS
23:30 - SSi Battery Solution & Lithium-Ion Fires
26:50 - Peter’s Experience as an Executive Director of the CFAA
29:20 - Importance of Standardized Documentation 
33:43 - Peter’s Perspective as a Firefighter & Industry Professional
37:22 - Technology Adoption in the Industry
40:15 - Quick Response Round
43:34 - Final Thoughts

0:16 - Fire Alarm Gateways

4:14 - Code Updates

6:58 - Louisiana: From Tags to QR Codes

12:55 - Consolidation in the Industry

17:03 - Success of Fire Protection in 2021

18:50 - A Recession-Proof Industry 

20:30 - Final Thoughts on NFPA Boston

23:41 - Upcoming Shows

25:30 - Closing Thoughts

0:15 - Introduction

3:35 - COVID in Fire Protection

6:26 - Engagement in the Industry

8:45 - Adoption Among Jurisdictions

11:58 - Shortage of Engineers / Technicians

16:25 - Active-Resume.com & Skilled Labor

19:40 - New Detection Technology

24:30 - Tesla & Lithium Ion Battery Fires

28:24 - Latest From Potter

0:01 - 3:15      - Show Intro and Melinda’s Background
3:20 - 4:48     - Legalization in Canada vs. the U.S.
5:30 - 8:20     - NFPA 420 and Classifying Growing Facilities 
9:05 - 10:02   - Craft Cannabis? 
10:52 - 12:37 - How Melinda Became Chair of NFPA 420
12:50 - 14:40 - CodeNext in the Cannabis Sector
14:45 - 16:50 - Solvents in Use Today
17:15 - 18:40 - More on the 420 Committee 
18:50 - 21:40 - The Standard’s Timeline / In-Person Committees
21:55 - 25:15 - Detection Systems in Cannabis
25:55 - 27:50 - Craziest Deficiency Melinda Has Seen
28:00 - 29:20 - Foam Mattress Fires
29:25 - end - Closing Thoughts

0:01 - Intro & Inspect Point Deal
2:48 - Mike’s Introduction
4:30 - Mike & Covenant Fire Protection
6:17  -  Mike’s Role with NFSA
7:32  - Layout Technician Class Updates
12:20 - Ponchos Class / History
14:46 - Benefits of the Virtual Class
18:20 - Class Pacing / Knowledge Retention
22:40 - Registration Opening
26:24 - New Software and New Textbook
30:07 - Other NFSA Initiatives 
33:20 - NFPA 13 & The Reach of NFSA 
38:04 - Wildest System Mike Has Created
41:32 - Mike’s Time in New England
44:44 - Closing Thoughts

0:01 - Intro
2:38 - Lee Kaiser Introduction
4:08 - Lee’s FSSA Experience
5:45 - Training for Specialty Suppression
7:02 - Dealing With Special Hazards
10:40 - Lee’s Top-3 Issues in Fire Protection
15:21 - Jarret Ryan’s Introduction
16:25 - Protegis’ Sales Methodology
18:30 - Protegis’ History With FSSA
23:29 - Jarret’s Initiatives for Protegis
25:10 - Todd Stevens’ Introduction
25:58 - The Global Outreach Initiative
29:01 - Todd’s Experience as President During COVID
32:38 - Outro