Fire Safety Makes the 2025 Princeton Review Fire Safety Honor Roll

University of Arizona made the honor roll – specifically the 2025 Princeton Review Fire Safety Honor Roll.  Out of 627 given Fire Safety Rating scores, we were among the 34 awarded a 99-point rating, the highest possible.  The score measures “how well prepared a school is to prevent or respond to campus fires, on a scale of 60–99”.  The ratings are based upon a set of questions developed with input from the nonprofit Center for Campus Fire Safety (CCFS), “the voice of over 4000 campus fire & life safety officials nationwide”.  The issues addressed by the questions include:

· The percentage of student housing sleeping rooms protected by an automatic fire sprinkler system with a fire sprinkler head located in the individual sleeping rooms.

· The percentage of student housing sleeping rooms equipped with a smoke detector connected to a supervised fire alarm system.

· The number of malicious fire alarms that occur in student housing per year.

· The number of unwanted fire alarms that occur in student housing per year.

· The banning of certain hazardous items and activities in residence halls, like candles, smoking, halogen lamps, etc.

· The percentage of student housing building fire alarm systems that, if activated, result in a signal being transmitted to a monitored location on campus or the fire department.

The UFS Fire Safety & UFS Fire Prevention teams work diligently to maintain a high standard of fire safety, not just in the residence halls, but across campus, by inspecting, testing, maintaining, and upgrading building fire-alarm and fire-suppression systems and the communications infrastructure that supports them.  They respond to all fire alarms with their other emergency response partner agencies to ensure the safety of our campus community. 

Fire Safety also works with PD&C to ensure that buildings are designed and constructed as specified in the Design Standards and Specifications (DSS) document with respect to fire safety.  The DSS addresses not only alarm and suppression systems, but also building materials, furnishings, installed equipment, emergency escape routing, fire department access, and access to pull stations, fire extinguishers, and other fire-suppression equipment.