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28th Annual Phoenix World Burn Congress 2016
This year's Phoenix World Burn Congress will be taking place in Providence, Rhode Island from October 19th-22nd.
This renowned event is a reflection of our community in action. People come together to offer support, increase their knowledge of burn recovery, and share inspiring stories. For many burn survivors, it is their first opportunity to connect with others on the journey of burn recovery.
Phoenix World Burn Congress is also a valued learning experience for burn care professionals. Through workshops, speakers, and peer-to-peer dialogue, professionals come to better understand the issues that impact the lives of burn survivors. Many participating firefighters have discussed the closure it brings them as they witness burn survivors and their families living meaningful lives.
This year's featured speakers include burn survivors and professionals who will share their inspirational stories. During the Congress you'll also hear from numerous other burn survivors, members of the fire service, and burn care professionals who will share their valuable experience.
For more info about the Annual Phoenix World Burn Congress, please visit:
https://www.phoenix-society.org/wbc
If you are interested in attending this or a future year's World Burn Congress, please contact us regarding potential opportunities!
This year's Phoenix World Burn Congress will be taking place in Providence, Rhode Island from October 19th-22nd.
This renowned event is a reflection of our community in action. People come together to offer support, increase their knowledge of burn recovery, and share inspiring stories. For many burn survivors, it is their first opportunity to connect with others on the journey of burn recovery.
Phoenix World Burn Congress is also a valued learning experience for burn care professionals. Through workshops, speakers, and peer-to-peer dialogue, professionals come to better understand the issues that impact the lives of burn survivors. Many participating firefighters have discussed the closure it brings them as they witness burn survivors and their families living meaningful lives.
This year's featured speakers include burn survivors and professionals who will share their inspirational stories. During the Congress you'll also hear from numerous other burn survivors, members of the fire service, and burn care professionals who will share their valuable experience.
For more info about the Annual Phoenix World Burn Congress, please visit:
https://www.phoenix-society.org/wbc
If you are interested in attending this or a future year's World Burn Congress, please contact us regarding potential opportunities!
New housing project to incorporate temperature-controlled stove burners
Local News / Regional By DAMIEN WOOD, Herald-Tribune staff October 1, 2010 Posted 6 days ago
The Cairn on the Boulevard will be taking innovative steps to keep from going up in flames.
Mark Whelpton, fire prevention officer with the Grande Prairie Fire Department, has had the idea of putting temperature-controlled coil burners on stovetops in a city project for a while, and with funding from the Grande Prairie and District Burn Society, Cairn is going to be it.
All 111 suites in the planned six-storey structure on 102 Street across from St. Joseph church will have the special stoves.
"They do not reach over 350 degrees Fahrenheit, which is still suitable for boiling water – still very quick – but you can lay a piece of paper on this coil element and it will not ignite it," said Whelpton.
"When it reaches that temperature, it shuts itself off. In all of the projects that they've done, they've never had one stovetop fire."
The innovative coils have been used in U.S. military bases and also several large American affordable housing projects. One project was just completed in Toronto.
This will be the first time the burners will appear in Western Canada, and Cairn developer Brad Cameron was all for it when Whelpton came to him with the proposal .
"I had been in to speak with Mark, about the stoves and about the building and our construction process (because) he oversees a lot of the safety requirements," said Cameron.
"He explained it to me and I thought it was just excellent.
"The more I read about it, the more it just made even more sense. Something like 60% of fires in buildings like mine happen because of fires on stovetops."
"We are building a non-combustible building ... basically it's concrete and steel and the siding we're putting on will not burn. Of course there will be sprinklers throughout and we'll also have very little carpet and that type of thing," he said.
"There will be very little combustible material in the building.
"So along with all of the things we are already doing, these stoves just really make sense."
The cost for the burners is about $200 per stove. The device, he said, is the only one he knows of that actually prevents fire from happening.
"The injuries that happen to people in their homes when they do have a stovetop fire – they go and they try to move that pot and they light the curtains on fire, they drop that pot and they burn themselves," Whelpton said.
"(The Burn Society) wants to prevent those injuries from happening."
Funding provided by the society is more than $22,000 for this project.
damienw@bowesnet.com
Article ID# 2778471
The Cairn on the Boulevard will be taking innovative steps to keep from going up in flames.
Mark Whelpton, fire prevention officer with the Grande Prairie Fire Department, has had the idea of putting temperature-controlled coil burners on stovetops in a city project for a while, and with funding from the Grande Prairie and District Burn Society, Cairn is going to be it.
All 111 suites in the planned six-storey structure on 102 Street across from St. Joseph church will have the special stoves.
"They do not reach over 350 degrees Fahrenheit, which is still suitable for boiling water – still very quick – but you can lay a piece of paper on this coil element and it will not ignite it," said Whelpton.
"When it reaches that temperature, it shuts itself off. In all of the projects that they've done, they've never had one stovetop fire."
The innovative coils have been used in U.S. military bases and also several large American affordable housing projects. One project was just completed in Toronto.
This will be the first time the burners will appear in Western Canada, and Cairn developer Brad Cameron was all for it when Whelpton came to him with the proposal .
"I had been in to speak with Mark, about the stoves and about the building and our construction process (because) he oversees a lot of the safety requirements," said Cameron.
"He explained it to me and I thought it was just excellent.
"The more I read about it, the more it just made even more sense. Something like 60% of fires in buildings like mine happen because of fires on stovetops."
"We are building a non-combustible building ... basically it's concrete and steel and the siding we're putting on will not burn. Of course there will be sprinklers throughout and we'll also have very little carpet and that type of thing," he said.
"There will be very little combustible material in the building.
"So along with all of the things we are already doing, these stoves just really make sense."
The cost for the burners is about $200 per stove. The device, he said, is the only one he knows of that actually prevents fire from happening.
"The injuries that happen to people in their homes when they do have a stovetop fire – they go and they try to move that pot and they light the curtains on fire, they drop that pot and they burn themselves," Whelpton said.
"(The Burn Society) wants to prevent those injuries from happening."
Funding provided by the society is more than $22,000 for this project.
damienw@bowesnet.com
Article ID# 2778471