The fire in the house at 333 Pfingsten Rd. in Northbrook started on a sofa in the living room. In minutes, the room was engulfed in flames, the smoke detectors bleating out their alarm, unheeded. No ...

Orange County Fire Rescue is a nationally-accredited department that services the Central Florida area with 1 million residents and 66 million visitors annually. The coverage area expands over 760 ...

GAITHERSBURG, MD – As firefighters’ workplaces change, it’s important they adapt. But, are they? NIST Fire Protection Engineer Dan Madrzykowski posed that question to more than 250 firefighters during ...

As construction materials change over time, so too must the fire service’s approach to residential fires. New research from UL underscores the importance of revising tactics used during basement fires ...

The agency conducted fire experiments in vacant but furnished townhouses with results in a report about the damage to facepieces caused by "uncovered temperature and heat flow conditions," it said. A ...

Underwriters Lab is holding a seminar Nov. 14-15 to talk about findings from its UL-Fire Protection Research Foundation Smoke Characterization Project. What's smoke characterization you ask? Well, UL ...