NFPA 501A: Standard for Fire Safety Criteria for Manufactured Home Installations, Sites, and Communities, 2009 Edition

The 2009 NFPA 501A's provides broad coverage of effective fire safety procedures for manufactured homes. The updated NFPA 501A: Standard for Fire Safety Criteria for Manufactured Home Installations, Sites, and Communities contains information that serves to ensure that your manufactured housing community is in compliance with fire safety considerations for all residents. This important Standard covers the installation of manufactured homes and home sites, including accessory buildings, structures, and communities. 23 pp.

Compliance issues covered in the 2009 NFPA 501A include:

• Proper hook up and installation of fuel gas piping to manufactured homes
  
• Separation distances between homes as well as accessory structures and buildings
  
• Marking of underground utility lines
• New and expanded requirements for water supply requirements, including hydrant spacing, for systems that serve the manufactured housing community
• New and expanded requirements for access by fire department vehicles including turn around spaces and special provisions to locked buildings or access roads
  
• New and expanded provisions for a consistent identification scheme for house and building numbers