This week is Home Sprinkler Awareness Week and here in New York lawmakers are pushing to require them in newly built homes ...

Many cities in the U.S. don't require sprinkler systems in older residential buildings, a 2017 PBS investigation found. Chicago does, to some degree. After a deadly fire in 2003, Chicago required ...

In front of a small crowd, the city fire department demonstrated the effectiveness of sprinkler systems Tuesday night by lighting on fire two identically furnished rooms inside a trailer.