The updated standard requires that smoke detectors be able to detect types of smoke. It also accounts for nuisance alarms due ...

Ideally, the latter will last about seven seconds in a flashover situation (when all combustible materials, including walls and floors, suddenly ignite) before catching on fire, which is usually ...

A Gresham firefighter who was hurt in a duplex fire is finally closer to going home after spending more than three months in ...

The effect is even seen when humans are struck by lightning, referred to as flashover, which can leave people with intricate surface burns on their skin called Lichtenberg figures. When lightning ...

Spencer Tejedas, the Gresham frefighter who risked his life and suffered burns on nearly half his body while fighting a ...

The experience will culminate with on-duty shifts at the Olomouc Fire Department, where participants will put their newly ...

A typical house fire can reach temperatures of 1100 to 1600 degrees; However, temperatures vary significantly depending on the room of origin and whether flashover conditions have been reached.

The FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant will provide $435,000 in funding for a trailer-based SCBA Maze prop like this one ...

The Neosho Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire at 3:26 p.m. on Thursday, September 12. Upon arrival, a ...

One firefighter jumped out a window while others ran down the stairs after a flashover, Lowell Chief Phil Charron said.

Flames are leaping through a massive hole in the roof of a multi-family building in Lowell, Massachusetts, while firefighters work to extinguish the inferno. When Sky5 arrived over 73 Aiken Street at ...

The blaze triggered a flashover, officials said, engulfing firefighters in flames. Three firefighters were injured, with two of them treated and released. Tejedas suffered severe burns.