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Chapter 5
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) writes codes for other agencies and authorities to adopt. It is important to understand that the NFPA does not enforce any of the codes that it writes. All of its codes are created by consensus, by committees made up of people who work with the codes on a daily basis. The NFPA 101 Life Safety Code® (LSC) is a code to protect lives from the harmful effects of fire, and this is accomplished by many different requirements. The LSC was originally written as a code that defines the appropriate components of exiting from a building in case of fire, which is still a large portion of the code. It has evolved to be a code that is comprehensive in all aspects of building safety, from the type of construction used to the requirements for fire detection and suppression.
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