The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Fire Department Apparatus is the group that maintains the standards that specify the minimum requirements for automotive fire apparatus and trailers. For decades, this committee has considered revisions to the wildland and municipal standards on different schedules. Many requirements are applicable to both types of apparatus, so the fact that the standards were revised on different schedules created a degree of inconsistency.

To address this, the committee delayed revising the municipal standard and pulled forward the wildland standard. Beginning with the current cycle, revisions for both NFPA 1901, Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus, and NFPA 1906, Standard for Wildland Fire Apparatus, will be considered together. This schedule will allow the committee to address issues that are common to both standards at the same time, keeping them current with one another. Read More.

This article originally appeared in Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment, July, 2013.