About 220 residential buildings in Milwaukee — comprising 14,595 housing units — are exempt from the city's requirement to ...

New model homes in New Castle County will soon be required to include automatic fire sprinkler systems. An ordinance passed ...

Dan Olson, business manager for Sprinkler Fitters Local 183 in Milwaukee, demonstrates how sprinkler systems work to suppress fires in seconds.

Automatic fire sprinkler systems can suppress a fire in under 20 seconds, Kobb said. At the union offices, members maintain a "burn room" where they can demonstrate the effectiveness of sprinklers.