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Wayne D. Moore, P.E., CFPS, SET, FSFPE, F.NSPE, is a licensed professional fire protection engineer, is a principal with the fire protection engineering and code-consulting firm, Hughes Associates, Inc. and is located in the firm's Warwick, Rhode Island office. He currently serves as a member of the National Fire Alarm Code Technical Correlating Committee, chairman of the NFPA 72-2010 Emergency Communications Systems (ECS) Technical Committee and is the editor of the 1993 edition and co-editor of the 1996 through 2007 editions of the National Fire Alarm Code Handbook.®

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Survivability under Fire

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On December 27, 2006, a three-alarm fire occurred in a 16-story fully sprinklered residential building known as Plumley Village. The fire attacked the building located at 16 Laurel Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, at about 4:30 a.m. Plumley Village consists of a sixteen-building complex built in 1972. It has fifteen low-rise buildings and one high-rise building. [...]

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