U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-8) and U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced on Tuesday, March 23 that they have introduced legislation to help provide critical campus fire safety information to college students living in dormitories and off-campus housing. The legislation is part of the lawmakers’ ongoing response to the tragic dormitory fire at Seton Hall University more than 10 years ago.

The Campus Fire Safety Act of 2010 would help provide fire safety education and training to students through a new $25 million competitive grant program to help institutions of higher education improve or start fire safety education programs. Programs that include educational material specifically aimed at students with disabilities will receive priority funding.

We need your help! Please take a look at the legistlation and tell LiveSafe what you think.

You can view the new H.R. 4908: The Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2010 at http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/200523360.html

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LiveSafe Foundation is an Ohio based non-profit organization (501c3), and leading grassroots movement, devoted to making fire safety education, awareness initiatives and life saving tools available on a broad basis to communities, campuses, and institutions in an effort to reduce national fire fatalities and fire losses. LiveSafe aims to help finance fire safety education where means are otherwise unavailable. LiveSafe is developing and sponsoring programs to help groups find the resources needed to advance individual and community fire safety.