So, the 2023 numbers are in, and the good news is that we had fewer reported fires in 2023 than in our prior high watermark hit in 2022. In 2023, it finally feels like the tide is turning.

This is excellent because it seems to result from the steady adoption of Fire Rover solutions across North America at waste and recycling facilities. It feels like we have finally proven that the Fire Rover solution works!Unfortunately, the overall decrease in reported facility fires includes some increases within specific categories, and we cannot ignore the fact that the past three years have seen our highest numbers of reported fires at US and Canadian waste and recycling facilities since I began consolidating and reporting the data in 2016.

But I hope that these reported fires will continue to decrease (even with the increasing threat of lithium-ion batteries in our waste and recycling streams) as the industry continues to improve operational performance, educate the public, and we see an increase in the investment in and utilization of solutions like Fire Rover. My team at Fire Rover has installed over 500 (607 as of this publication) of our early-detection fire response solutions globally.

We know we are gaining more knowledge about which sites are having issues and which are not. Our performance has become extremely important for insurance companies in understanding and comparing risk mitigation with traditional fire protection solutions.

This year's report includes a more detailed section dedicated to Fire Rover performance. This data will include two full-year's of data highlighting the number of fire/hot spots responded to, the number of pressurizations of our systems, the number of times we suppressed fire, and the number of dispatches to the fire professionals/fire brigade.

See Section 7 starting on page 47. We will also have the latest death/injury report, which shows that over 9% of these 373 fire incidents we incurred in 2023 had an injury or death, which typically comes to the extent of the fire professionals brought in to fight these fires once they have gotten out of control.

See Section 8. 1, which begins on page 58.

And a state-by-state (province-by-province) analysis of your state's performance from a tonnage, number of fires perspective, and much more data and information. Here is to a better 2024.

I hope we reach our goal of fewer "major" and "catastrophic" fires at our waste and recycling facilities. To stay current on this data year-round, please subscribe to my Fire Safety Report newsletter on LinkedIn at: https://lnkd.

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