The structure fire is often too casually deemed the “bread and butter” of the fire service. But the working fire of the 1970s and 1980s is not the working fire of today. The combustibility of today’s ...

NIST’s Fire Dynamics Simulator was used to recreate fire conditions in a 1999 fire in a two-story duplex in Iowa. Three children and three firefighters were killed. The critical event was the on-set ...

The Fire Dynamics Bootcamp kicked off Firehouse World with an in-depth discussion of fire science and terminology, as well as lab test burns and tabletop exercises to help apply research concepts to ...

Firefighter training is one of the central points of Firehouse World 2016. So is introducing the American fire service to some of the critical topics that international fire service leaders have been ...

The integration of timber as a sustainable construction material has accelerated research into the fire dynamics and safety of timber structures. Studies in this field investigate the mechanisms of ...

Researchers HU Longhua and FANG Jun from the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) authored a comprehensive review paper titled "Pool fire ...

Scientists are examining more data via simulations of wildfires in the Sierra Nevada to improve their understanding between prior and future wildfires. They hypothesized that prior wildfires and their ...