215 - Lessons from the 2018 Camp Fire with Eric D. Link
The devastating 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California serves as a haunting reminder of how rapidly wildfires can overwhelm communities. We have not known anything like it - the flames raced through P...
20 Elo 202557min
214 - Thermal Imagers with Martin Veit
The world looks entirely different through a thermal camera lens, especially in a fire scenario. These devices reveal harsh temperature gradients between hot and cold surfaces, adding another dimensio...
13 Elo 202556min
213 - Setting up your own chatbot with Ruggiero Lovreglio and Amir Rafe
The AI revolution has arrived, but fire safety engineers face a critical dilemma: how to leverage powerful AI tools while protecting confidential project data. Professor Ruggiero Rino Lovreglio from ...
6 Elo 20251h 2min
212 - A glossary for evacuation with Enrico Ronchi and Ezel Üsten
When experts from different disciplines attempt to collaborate on complex problems, such as evacuation modelling, we often discover that we're not speaking the same language. Even seemingly simple ter...
30 Heinä 20251h 5min
211 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 17 - Detecting fires
In episode 17 of the Fire Fundamentals, we delve into the fire detection technology. Fire detection forms the critical foundation of all active fire protection measures, serving as the prerequisite fo...
23 Heinä 202552min
210 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 16 - Turbulence with Randy McDermott
In the 16th part of the Fire Fundamentals series, we invite Randy McDermott from NIST to join us for a deep dive into turbulence and its critical role in fire dynamics modelling. We explore the physic...
16 Heinä 202558min
209 - Updates from the SFPE with Chris Jelenewicz
In this podcast episode, I invited Chris Jelenewicz, the CEO of SFPE, to bring me up to date on the society. The SFPE Handbook on Fire Protection Engineering is undergoing a major revision with the si...
9 Heinä 20251h
208 - The basics of fire water supply with Szymon Kokot
Water might seem like the simplest part of firefighting – just point and spray, right? Well, as you can imagine, the reality is a bit more complex. In this conversation with veteran firefighter and CF...
2 Heinä 202556min
