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Piper Fire Secures Gold Medal, Safety Award at National Craft Championship
ABC National Craft Championship Gold Medal, Safety Winners
Daniel Coticchio, a fourth-year fire sprinkler apprentice with AFSA Contractor Member Piper Fire Protection Inc., Clearwater, Florida, took the highest honor of the gold medal. “I appreciate a challenge, so this competition was right up my alley. Also, I knew it would be worth the experience,” Coticchio comments. “I had an idea I would be a finalist, but I competed with a lot of skilled competitors, so nothing was for sure.”
Read more on the Piper team and AFSA members in the post by SprinklerAge Magazine.
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Trust is built locally. It lives in the technician who knows your building, knows your local codes, and shows up when something goes wrong at midnight. It lives in the relationship between a fire protection company and the community it has served for decades.
But capability is built at scale. The training standards, the technical resources, the purchasing power, the shared knowledge of a unified national organization — these are the things that make a local provider exceptional rather than merely adequate.
Fortis was built on this belief.
Our network of regionally rooted fire and life safety companies delivers genuine local expertise in every market we serve — technicians who know the regional AHJs, the local codes, and the specific demands of the facilities in their community. Behind each of them stands the full weight of a premier national organization.
You build. You create. You push the world forward.
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