Northern Illinois Real Estate, Inc. April 2011 : Page 2
FIR E SAFE C OM M U NITY OAK BROOK Village President John W. Craig (third from the right) and the Oak Brook Village Board CONGRATULATIONS VILLAGE PRESIDENT JOHN W. CRAIG AND THE OAK BROOK VILLAGE BOARD! The Village Board of Oak Brook are to be congratulated for maintaining a high degree of fire safety for present and future residents by updating its building and fire codes using the 2009 Editions of the International Building (IBC), Fire (IFC) and Residential (IRC) series of codes with a fire sprinkler threshold of 1,000 square feet for commercial buildings including multifamily. All new single-family homes will be fire sprinkler protected using the NFPA 13D standard, joining 70 other Illinois communities. In addition, all high-rise buildings have been retrofit. The trustees and members of the Oak Brook Village Board should be proud of their long tradition of fire safety protecting their community now and into the future . Village President John W. Craig and the Oak Brook Village Board: Village President John W. Craig Village Manager David Niemeyer Village Clerk Charlotte K. Pruss Trustee Stelios Aktipis Trustee James Carson Trustee Mark M. Moy Trustee Moin Saiyed Trustee Gerald Wolin Trustee Elaine Zannis Congratulations for following FEMA’s “America Burning” guidelines highlighting the safeguard of citizens and FEMA’s “Firefighter Life Safety Summit” recommendations for the protection of firefighters. For more information go to: MEMBER firesprinklerinitiative.org iccsafe.org ©2011, Northern Illinois Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board. All rights reserved. A not-for-profit organization. usfa.dhs.gov/ downloads/pdf/publications/fa-264.pdf everyonegoeshome.com/summit.html
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