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House panel reviews fire-code updates, adds carbon-monoxide detection and electronic incident reporting
Summary
The state fire marshal told the committee SB 494 would update New Hampshire's fire code to the 2024 model cycle, add carbon-monoxide detection requirements in additional occupancies, modernize incident reporting to an electronic NEARIS system and create a narrow mechanism for the State Fire Marshal's Office to assist local inspections where municipalities lack capacity.
State Fire Marshal Sean Toomey briefed the committee on SB 494, a code-update package that aims to carry forward recent code cycles and address several operational and reporting gaps.
Toomey said the bill moves the state fire code from older editions to the 2024 code cycle and adds carbon-monoxide detection requirements for additional residential and other occupancies where…
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