“Citizens for Fire Safety” Answers Threat from “Citizens for Fire Recklessness”
The Citizens for Fire Safety has blanketed Maryland with scary flyers calling Maryland legislative bill HB1 “A Deadly Mistake” - “Help stop the bill that will ban material used to make flame resistant products. Call your state Senator!”
Undoubtedly, there are a lot of “Citizens for Fire Recklessness” groups that are mad now…
Strangely, the Maryland State Fireman’s Assocation supports SB1:
The Citizens for Fire Safety have not returned phone calls or e-mails as we have requested them to do to validate their existence or claims. Lobbyists have been hired by this group to contact as many fire service personnel as possible to assist in the defeat of this bill. We are not sure if they have given a complete and accurate set of facts with their requests.
PLEASE!!! If you have been contacted by this group, call us and get the true facts from people you know and can trust to be there tomorrow. Be sure you know the FULL STORY before you make your decision to call your legislators.
Which likely leads one to believe that Citizen for Fire Safety is really just Manufacturers of Chemical Crap with a website.
April 25, 2008 at 1:13 pm
You’re correct. Citizens for Fire Safety is a lobbying effort on the part of fire retardant chemical manufacturers. It’s “driver” is Seth Jacobson (Jacobson Communications) who pulls strings from an office in California. Citizens for Fire Safety, is an offshoot of Citizens for Fire Safety Institute that shares an office with Albemarle (fire retardant manufacturer) in Washington DC.