Join Dormitory Fire Marshalls and Greek Leaders for a morning of intense fire safety education.

• Learn to use fire extinguishers.
• Witness live fire in sprinkler protected and un-protected “dorm rooms”.
• Escape from a smoke filled building.
• Learn to survive your next night out!

Experience all this and more at the 19th Fire Factor Academy, September 27, at Illinois Fire Service Institute.

The Office of the State Fire Marshall will issue a proclamation declaring September “Campus Fire Safety Month”, and will present the “Look Up — Pay It Forward” campaign. You’ll have an opportunity, after the Academy, to join them in distributing smoke detectors to off-campus housing.

Click here to find out more! Sorry, registration is closed.

Come visit Fire Factor at Engineering Open House, March 14, at the center of the Bardeen Quad. Look for our booth near the Society of Women Engineers’ side-by-side dorm room fire demonstration. We’ll have posters, giveaways for your residence fire safety activities, and information about how to comply with ODOS Greek Housing requirements. Since there will be no regular academy this Spring, this is your only chance to see the fire demonstration!
Fire demonstrations are at 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00. See you there!

Don’t miss this unique opportunity — Fire Factor Academy, September 17, 4:00-7:30 — seats still available! This special event features the dramatic movie “After The Fire”; a true story of courage, cowardice, and the search for justice, presented by survivors Alvaro Llanos and Shawn Simons who were severely burned in a dormitory arson fire at Seton Hall University. Go to the Academy tab to start your registration.

Learn Not to Burn!
Fire Factor returns to the Illinois Fire Service Institute. Take the online course after you register, then attend the hands-on training event April 6, 2013, at IFSI. You’ll get all the tools you need to live fire safe and to share your knowledge with your friends and housemates!
The event is over. Look for photos soon.

A documentary film about the deadly fire that took 97 lives and injured more than 200, will premiere February 20, 2013. Visit the film site at: click

We’ve added a new resource to the Links and Videos pages.

Sorry for the prolonged absence. We left the website down to eliminate some nasties that were lurking in our code (no harm to users, thankfully).
We’re still tweaking some pages, working on updates, and have some new content planned. Currently, Photos are limited to archives, and not all Videos are working. These will be back soon.

Learn Not to Burn!
U of I October 6, 2012.
Our first academy with online learning offered complete information about living fire safe. Participants took the new interactive online course, then attended the hands-on event to get the tools needed to take it back home to their friends and house mates! Registration is closed — thanks!

Sixty-four attended the Spring Academy, April 14 at Hendrick House in Urbana. We all had a great day of fire safety activities despite the rain!
Thanks to all who attended, and to all the instructors and staff; and a special thanks to Hendrick House!

Check the video tab for a new video from www.firesprinklerinitiative.org, an NFPA website. You’ll find more videos on our page, including the Christmas Tree video. The Fire Factor team wishes you a safe and happy holiday!