In 1958, a tragic incident unfolded at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, leading to three nuns and 92 children losing their lives in a devastating fire....
TERPconsulting’s Mark Hopkins, PE, FSFPE has been selected to present during the 2023 National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Conference & Expo being held June 19 - 21 at Mandalay Bay...
Rob Sontag, CFPS, FM, CFPE, CFI-II, CFEI, EFO has joined TERPconsulting as a senior fire protection consultant in the company’s Denver office. He has amassed more than 25 years of...
Mark Hopkins, P.E., FSFPE, has written a chapter focused on fire sprinkler corrosion for the new edition of the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Fire Protection Handbook, 21st Edition. This...
In an ironic twist of fate, the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history was caught on videotape when tragedy ensued on February 20, 2003. A Rhode Island news crew...
The Great Chicago Fire, which occurred over 48 hours on October 8-10, 1871, is considered one of the most famous fires in U.S. history. Urban legend has spurred...
The North Las Vegas Fire Department has a highly trained arson investigator on its team who nose how to sniff out intentionally set fires. Relying on good old-fashioned detective work...
TERPconsulting regional director Mark Hopkins, PE, FSFPE, will be joining several of his esteemed colleagues in the fire protection engineering field for a live panel discussion at the SFPE22 Annual...
Mark Hopkins, PE, FSFPE will be making a presentation at the 7th Annual Rocky Mountain SFPE Symposium on Thursday, May 12 in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Mark’s presentation, entitled “Corrosion Investigation...
The 1980 fire took place at the MGM Grand Hotel on the famed Las Vegas Strip, which has since been transformed into Bally’s Las Vegas and now the Horseshoe Las...