April Musser, PE, is a fire protection engineer with CDM Smith. She has more than 20 years of industry experience in fire protection and life safety.

April Musser

April Musser, PE, is a fire protection engineer with CDM Smith and has more than 20 years of industry experience in fire protection and life safety.

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Figure 5: Parking garages may have occupied spaces adjacent to, above or below the parking area and garage fires can impact these occupied spaces. This garage has an occupied level below the parking decks. Courtesy: CDM Smith

Case study: Airport garage fire spreads due to limited fire protection systems

Figure 2: In previous editions of the code, open parking garages like this one did not require automatic fire sprinkler protection. New code editions have eliminated sprinkler exceptions for open parking garages. Courtesy: CDM Smith

Suppression Systems

New parking garages must deal with more robust fire protection requirements

Fire and Life Safety

Assembly occupancy fires that wrote NFPA 101