A flashover was involved in the 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people, a disaster that Mr. Kerber said ...

Thanks to a new AI-based system, however, firefighters may soon receive warnings when flashover is imminent. Typically, flashovers occur when a structure fire causes the temperature in an enclosed ...

Danger zone: NIST firefighters douse flames bursting from a building as a flashover occurs during an experiment. (Courtesy: NIST) New machine learning algorithms could soon help firefighters forecast ...

NIST firefighters douse flames bursting from a building as a flashover occurs during an experiment. (NIST photo) Firefighting is a race against time. Exactly how much time? For firefighters, that part ...

Pittsburgh, PA, OCTOBER 13, 2011 – Dräger announces that it will hold a free webinar titled, “Understanding Flashovers” to educate firefighters on the dangers associated with the flashover phenomenon.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- InventHelp® introduces the "Grantham Mech Vent," a specialized fire-fighting tool which sprays a fog pattern out of the entry window to create a ventilation ...

"When all these things come together, it's just heartbreaking, it's the worst of all scenarios," explained Kathy Notarianni, chief of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Fire Protection Engineering ...

Ten firefighters were lying on their backs on the floor of a simulated house when a fire broke out Sunday morning at the Nebraska State Fire School at Grand Island’s Fonner Park. A metal can full of ...

It is the phenomenon every firefighter worries about. Flashovers happen when hot smoke fills a room and causes everything to suddenly combust. If someone is caught in it, with or without protective ...