Steve Conboy
"We Tame The Flames
And Choke The Smoke"
BenFranklin
"An Ounce Of Prevention
Is Worth A Pound Of Cure"
Awareness Blog
My blog honors Ben Franklin the man that coined the phrase, "An Ounce Of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Cure", which is so relevant today when it relates to making high density wood framed buildings safer from fire for workers and fire fighters.
Who would have thought that the same practical man from Philadelphia, who helped found the United States of America in 1776, would also make so many important contributions to fire prevention and safety during Colonial America?
In the spirit of Ben Franklin's pioneering work in fire prevention and safety, I have been advocating for safer and better practices in the US building industry. I have been beating the fire safety drum for over a decade now, while being involved in wood framed building on both sides, from the supply to the frame for over 40 years. Much like Ben Franklin had two carpenters on his original fire fighting team, I like to surround myself with knowledgable construction leaders who also support the cause of defending affordable housing with renewable sustainable lumber, for the benefit of future generations.
Wild Fires create tons of smoke and water and fire retardants make even more smoke.
A Balanced Build means less steel and concrete using more wood that sequesters CO2 and cleans our air as we all support our great reforestation programs here in the USA.
An 18-year-old Florida teenager and his friend crashed a Model S Tesla driving nearly 70 miles over the speed limit.
The same M Fire safe chemistry that could stop a wild fire in its tracks puts out lithium battery fires.
Steve Conboy Leading Award Winning National Resilient Build Experts next stop is in LA with BisNow on his MFI Resilient Red Zone Tour to speak to Architects.
Spend more wild fire resources to defend old California communities and add a proactive program that sprays better fire break chemistry with ground vehicles on and around homes before the fire gets into the communities.
Governor Newsome this house in the California Wild Fire Rebuild today is not sustainable.
Resilient Building Is A Higher Priority Then Carbon Neutral Green Because Its Sustainable
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) announced $43 million in fire prevention grants to fund 66 fire prevention projects across the state.
This Clean Fire Inhibitor Mighty Fire Breaker Tech is the solution. Tt’s here and ready if Pres. Trump and Gov. Newsom are ready to watch and listen in a Cal Fire Demo Burn. We are waiting for your call and we have been knocking on all your doors for months. Just get to Steve Conboy at M Fire.
Palm Springs brush fire under investigation; hot spot briefly reignites Wednesday.
Now, in the aftermath of the Camp fire, which killed 85 people and caused up to $13 billion in damage, some are calling Cal Fire’s use of air tankers “costly and increasingly ineffective.”
AvalonBay Communities retains top spot for the third year in a row with an average ORA of 80.
MFI Radio Podcast Show Host Is Looking To Interview A Fire Fighters To Discuss Collapsing I Joist Or Open Web Floors During Rescue
If Only Cal Fires Reactive Wild Fire Defense Plan would add a new American Clean Fire Inhibitor In As The Proactive Arm we would lower the loss of homes with less crews less bulldozers and less rakes because our chemistry creates the break sprayed them dry clinging to break the free radicals in the fire
The trees we grow in reforestation programs produce the lumber we use to meet our growing housing demands has a huge carbon value when buildings are fire treated.
Let’s talk about what you are doing and what homeowners can do now to add wild fire resilience to their property.
What First Responders Don’t Know About Fiery Electric Vehicles And Lithium Batteries That Old Tech Can Not Handle.
Giant Aircrane drops retardant. The giant Aircrane contracted by SDG&E drops retardant on a 2018 fire in Alpine.
A building in Stockton is set on fire while M-Fire goes live in SF with BisNow launching The RedZone Resilient Build Tour to discuss defending buildings and workers from arson attacks.
The biggest fire in years, devours a building in downtown Concord and displaces 250 next door. Arson Confirmed In Massive Concord Apartment Fire.
Our Builders carry some responsibility to build safer high density stick frame or mass timber buildings especially after 2 construction workers died in Denver last year including many firefighters by collapsing light weight engineered wood floors.
Godfrey Fire Department Capt. Jacob “Jake” Ringering died from the injuries he received when a portion of the brick structure at 4604 Culp Lane, Bethalto, collapsed while he and other crew members were fighting the blaze.
MFI is out to defend builders from wet wood suppliers that are delivering wet wood and not defending it for the builders as it sits around on job sites. .
Extremely Wet Weather and all the Arson Attacks On High Density Affordable Wood Framed Housing Projects are driving the cost to build and keeps rising while wet weather attacks critical paths, setting our builders even further behind on meeting the demands for housing.
Extreme wet weather, climate change, arson attacks and cyber attacks are some of the top risks highlighted in the 14th annual World Economic Forum Global Risks, produced in partnership with Zurich Insurance.
The USA Smart Builders Are Already Out In Front Jumping In On Resilient Building As The Insurance Industry Is Slower To Embrace Applied Science To Lowers Loss and Builders Premiums. The first Insurance Company to get behind this grass roots Resilient Movement will write better business with lower risk and as they lower premiums for smart builders they will gain market share to.
When Will The Insurance Industry Catch On That MFI Applied Fire Science On Lumber Lowers Loss And Premium Reductions Will Create Demand For Safer Buildings With Less Risk During Construction And Long After
Hey PG&E lets have a meeting about defending all the vulnerable raw un-fire treated poles in many California communities to defend them from future wild fires to help rebuild your company in a resilient way.
The MFI Resilient Movement has a bigger impact on climate related events or climate change than Carbon Neutral.
I want to explain what people and architects are trying to get from a Green New Deal, and also present my more logical plan, which is not full of political confusion and fear propaganda.
Builders, Insurance Providers And Realtors Take Notice As Young Firefighters Are Being Trained In Fire Rescue It’s All Of Our Respectful Obligation To Build, Insure And Promote The Sale Of Wood Framed Buildings That Are Safer In Fire Rescue
M-Fire Is Defending National Builders From Fire Like Never Before And Now Adding The Mold Litigator Defender Program.
The Grenfell Fire in London will hold someone’s liability insurance to the fire. How about your liability in a wood framed building?
Fire, A California Company, Has A Cost Effective Solution To Fire Defend The unprotected utility Poles from fire
The California rolling hills are beautiful and green today like you would see in Ireland. In just five months...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Insurance claims from California’s deadly November 2018 wildfires have topped $11.4 billion, making the series of fires some of the most expensive in state history, officials said Monday.
If The Lumber Was Fire Treated During Framing This Building Would Have Had Less Damage And Been Safer For Firefighters To Fight.
Pacific Gas & Electric Corp., the nation's largest utility, filed for bankruptcy reorganization yesterday in a bid to relieve itself of some of the billions of dollars in damages it could face..
MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER™ Applied Science Job-Site Fire-Inhibiting Documented Job Site Spray Service works to reduce uncontrollable fire risk outbreaks and loss of complete wood structures and lives, in several different and significant ways.
Mighty Fire Breaker™ (MFB) is the newest, safest and most cost effective fire inhibitor defense that defends builders from total loss on large multi family projects from arson attacks...
M-Fire GM at our new MHA automated pre-fabrication factory in Nor Cal. This is just another huge and amazing pre-fab wall factory supported by more foreign investors to create factory worker jobs here in America.
Some smart US builders are recognizing, like firefighters did a while ago, that urban infill podiums with wood framing on top are next to impossible to save and defend in a fire.
President Trump May have said it wrong, however, his business instincts are spot on.
If we deal with these 3 items we will radically lower our loss during wild fires.
M-Fire is the only company in the building industry today that is recording fire defended lumber data in real time...
Why doesn’t the State of California treat its wildfire hazards like it battles flood risks?
Why doesn’t the State of California treat its wildfire hazards like it battles flood risks?
Mighty Fire Breaker™ Applied Fire Science and Technology Helping Builders Defend Wood-Framed and Mass-Timber Buildings From Fire Loss While Protecting The Carbon Naturally Stored In The Wood Of Such Buildings.
It’s In The Books, Avalon Bay (AVB) wins The Gary E. Bird Horizon Award. The prestigious award, sponsored by Travelers, is presented annually by the International Risk Management Institute, Inc.
It’s not only labor and materials costs which are increasing. Insurance companies in the frame habitational space have been heavily impacted and are changing their appetite for these placements because of the increasing number of arson attacks throughout the United States.
Our prayers go out to all the families that have lost there homes to these radical storms in the last two years. Please pray for us as we try to change a building industry to try and build more resilient.
The USA needs more great architects like Robert W. Adler and Associates to build above the code and defend the carbon sequestered in all the lumber that went into this 56 thousand square foot mansion.
American Wood Council (AWC) President & CEO Robert Glowinski issued the following statement regarding today’s final passage of the 2018 Farm Bill. The bill includes the Research Title and Wood Innovation Grant language from the Timber Innovation Act.
Everyone Should Put All Politics Aside On This One And Consider How The US Steel Tariff Could Drive Fire Defended Mass Timber Carbon Storage Banks
This bill could be the answer that raises the bar on wood structures...
During Governor Brown’s Global Summit in San Francisco this summer California was on fire.Until we add a proactive approach along with what our firefighters do on the front lines, we will rack up more historical losses
Until we add a proactive approach along with what our firefighters do on the front lines, we will rack up more historical losses
Some historians would tell us that Big wooden ships would travel to North America around the year 1000 AD.
My new book is coming soon. It’s in support of our building industries, and to educate them on how to overcome what is attacking our ability to meet the demands for affordable housing in a sustainable way.
M-Fire's Mighty Fire Breaker™ has the ability to make every wood framed structure safer during construction and after the home is built.
BisNow’s VP of Sales Michael Ponticelli’s introduced M-Fire and Mighty Fire Breaker to a broad audience of high-density multifamily investors, realtors, and builders at Washington DC conference this week.
Mighty Fire Breaker Mulch helps eliminate smoldering smoke faster than water with no chance of reignition and simultaneously encapsulates it until the clean up crew can remove the toxic debris so to avoid and defend our water tables and oceans.
Raw Lumber Used To Be Ok In The Western Wild Fire Regions Of The US But Not Any More Especially With Our Over Crowded Planet Now Our Builders Need To Adapt To Resilient Wild Fire Measures With New Cost Effective Best Practice Fire Defense Or They Could Be Subjected To Litigation For Neglect.
Driving toward Paradise on the afternoon of Nov. 8, Jonathan Pangburn was less worried about the flames burning through the forest than he was about the smoke.
President Trump And Resilient Expert Steve Conboy Have To Meet Before California Rebuilds. Until our President calls for a California Wild Fire Summit with third party Wild Fire Resilient Experts, we are going to continue to rack up historical wild fire losses.
All the wooden power poles in California have a design flaw similar to how attic roof ventilation does. Both can become wild fire resilient, if we can...
The wildfires sweeping across Southern California this past week threatened some of the priciest real estate in the country, and they’re not done yet.
To be reminded of the power of insurance these days, I just have to step out the front door. I live about 80 miles south of the Camp Fire in northern California, and, even at this distance, the effect is obvious.
To maintain standards of excellence, America's construction industry has adapted in many ways over the years to meet many challenges arising in the industry and our society.
A fast-growing wildfire forced tens of thousands of residents from their homes in northern California on Thursday.
M-Fire Suppression Is Out To Defend Builders And Insurance Underwriters In Solidarity.
ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR HALON REPLACEMENT
"A New Cost Effective Solution Is Available Now, To Defend Builders, Contractors and Insurance Underwriters From Litigators Over Wood Framed Buildings which are not defended and are at Risk from Fire During Construction."
The wealthy, using private firefighters, ignites debate in wildfire country. "I could care less who owns the house," one firefighter said. "I just want to save as many people as possible."
When installed per the NFPA 131, Cavity-SHIELD eliminates the need for sprinkler systems within concealed floor spaces, saving construction time, money, eliminating long-term maintenance and waterleaks.
As commuters headed home from work, black smoke billowed above the San Francisco's Financial District from a three-alarm fire at the 196-unit apartment building located at 405 Davis Court.
WASHINGTON (KTVU) - President Trump spoke from the White House Wednesday about the California wildfires. In his statement, President Trump said, "what's happening should never happen," and that "California needs to get its act together." He also threatened to stop sending unspecified funding to California for wildfires.
Until builders allow our Architects to specify resilient building methods and products we will only see the cost to defend homes continue to increase. We have the ability to build homes today that can stand up to fire, if our builders would allow their architects to specify resilient products instead of pinching every penny for granite counter tops.
Some dead forests are better off left to burn especially when drought and insects have killed the trees since Mother Nature has a way of taking care of itself to defend rebirth.
Some dead forests are better off left to burn especially when drought and insects have killed the trees since Mother Nature has a way of taking care of itself to defend rebirth.
California homeowners may find themselves facing insurance headaches even if their houses weren’t affected by this year’s blazes.
Many of these fires are still under investigation even though most of them started long after construction workers were home in bed between 1am and 3am. The list of fires increases to 30 projects destroyed in the last year or so.
Portugal charges 12 over huge wildfire that killed 66 people
This Aug. 10, 2018 photo provided by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival shows the outdoor theatre with wildfire smoke on the horizon in Ashland, Ore.
Our great Architects and many in the Building Industry are finally beginning to understand loss prevention because no one needs any more data. The Insurance Industry is now listening when it comes to understanding
On September 9, 2018 at 3:30 a.m., Nash County (NC) 911 Center received calls for a large building fire on the 3300 block of Benvenue Road in the Dortches section of Red Oak.
Last Thursday, in Wallingford, Washington a construction project of townhomes went up in flames in the early morning — the developer believes that he knows who is to blame. Builders that neglect the Best Fire Practice in today's Building Industry who experience this kind of loss need to rebuild with less risk.
If Congress would add High Density Stick Framed And Mass Timber Buildings To The 45Q Carbon Tax Credit they will have created the biggest and best carbon collection program the world has ever known.
The Palace That Housed Brazil’s National Museum Was Engulfed By Fire
By way of definition, modular or offsite construction involves, "the process of planning, designing, fabricating, transporting and assembling building elements for rapid site assembly to a greater degree of finish than in traditional piecemeal on-site construction
Could High Insurance Risk Premiums Because Of Fire and Collapse at Oregon State University project trouble for CLT industry to slow its ability to take market share as a renewable sustainable solution to meet the demands for affordable housing.
The Northern California city suffered one of the deadliest fires in California state history. In the aftermath, it now confronts a costly pollution problem....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say the death toll from this summer's devastating forest fire near Athens has risen to 99, after a woman injured in the blaze died in the hospital....
If we read their signs, how can we ignore the tens of thousands of homes being consumed by wild fires while so much greenhouse gas is being produced? ...
Everyone has a responsibility during wild fire season in the western US......
200-acre fire in Napa County prompted mandatory evacuations Saturday.....
MASSIVE WOODEN structures featured prominently in the winning design for Suvarnabhumi Airport’s new passenger terminal could pose a fire risk and might violate construction laws, the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) said yesterday....
Our government needs to step in and develop a new proactive wild fire defense plan with the private sector...
We all pray for the family of Senator McCain for the loss of a husband, father and friend. He was a great man that we all honor.
M-Fire Suppression Inc. is a fire technology company redefining risk management for the construction industry in all wood framed buildings and wild fire defense with clean fire inhibitors.