Paradeof Homes

Knife River is a full service aggregate-based construction company, providing ready-mix concrete aggregate sales and delivery and concrete construction services. We provide services throughout North Dakota for public, private and commercial construction projects.

701-580-4527

What is Day of Caring? Day of caring was established to promote the spirit and value of volunteerism, increase awareness of local human service agencies, and demonstrate how people working together, for the good of the community can accomplish great things!

The Bismarck Mandan Professional Woman in Building volunteered with United Way for their 2023 Day of Caring at Camp Niche. We sanded and repainted the picnic tables, and cleaned out a storage shed.

“The finest homes deserve the finest entries.

Glenview Doors signature product lines offer the elegant appeal of solid wood doors but with greater performance and lasting beauty.

With advanced European technology, the highest quality materials, artisan finishing techniques, and up to twice the thickness of typical wood entries, Glenview Doors are in a class of their own.”

Fire Prevention Week is observed each year during the week of October 9th in commemoration of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The fire caused devastating damage. More than 250 people were killed, 100,000 were left homeless, and more than 17,400 structures were destroyed. Every October, fire departments provide public education in an effort to decrease casualties and property loss caused by fire.

In the spirit of Fire Prevention Month, this article demonstrates some of the benefits of a proven fire protection technology that has been in use for over 100 years, fire sprinklers. While fire sprinkler systems have been around for over a century and have proven themselves time and time again in minimizing damage to property and saving lives, they still have more potential as their use expands to one- and two-family residences. For example.

• During 2015 – 2019, fire departments in the US responded to an average of 355,400 home structure fires per year. It is estimated that sprinkler systems were present at 23,600 (7 percent) of those homes. The 7 percent of reported home structure fires that occurred in properties with sprinklers, accounted for 1 percent of home fire deaths, 5 percent of home fire injuries, and 3 percent of home property loss.

• Sprinklers operated in 95 percent of the home fires in which they were present, and the fires were large enough to activate them. They were effective at controlling the fire in 97 percent of the fires in which they operated. Taken together, sprinklers operated effectively in 92 percent of the fires large enough to trigger them.

• In 89 percent of the home fires where the sprinkler system operated, only one sprinkler head activation was required to contain the fire. In 99.5 percent, five or fewer were required.

• Sprinklers save lives and reduce injuries and property loss. From 2015 to 2019, the civilian death and injury rates per reported home fire were 88 and 28 percent lower, respectively, and average property loss per home fire was 62 percent lower in reported home fires in which sprinklers were present compared to fires in homes with no sprinklers.

• The rate of firefighter injuries per home fire in which sprinklers were present was 78 percent lower than in homes with no Automated Extinguishing System (AES).

• In reported home fires in which sprinklers were present, the fire was confined to the object or room of origin 97 percent of the time, compared to 74 percent in homes with no sprinklers. Sprinklers are a very reliable and effective part of a fire protection design strategy. In addition to the reduction of civilian fire deaths per 1,000 reported fires when sprinklers are present, notable reductions can also be seen in the average financial loss per fire. In conclusion, increasing the use of sprinklers in one-and two-family homes can reduce the loss of life and property damage caused by fire. For more information on home fire sprinklers see the NFPA Fire Sprinkler Initiative webpage at https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/ Staying-safe/Safety-equipment/Home-fire-sprinklers/Fire-Sprinkler-Initiative, or contact your local fire department.