Fire on the Ranch
When the Richard Spring Fire tore through southwestern Montana in August, Clint McRae, a 4th generation Montana cattle rancher, feared he'd lose not only his home, but possibly hundreds of animals and...
9 Nov 202152min
Fires in Informal Settlements
An estimated 1 billion people worldwide currently live in informal settlements, including slums and shantytowns. Experts believe that number could double or even triple over the next 30 years. In toda...
26 Okt 202129min
What If You Can't 'Hear the Sounds of Fire Safety'?
The theme to this year's Fire Prevention Week is "Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety," but what if you can't hear, or have a mobility issue that makes it difficult evacuate? For the estimated 1 billion p...
12 Okt 202133min
The Surprise Battery Explosion
In 2019, a massive explosion rocked an energy storage facility in Surprise, Arizona, sending four firefighters to the hospital. With ever more powerful energy storage systems, or ESS, being installed ...
28 Sep 202157min
The Lasting Impact of 9/11
It's hard to believe that the September 11 terrorist attacks happened 20 years ago this month. Of the nearly 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in rural Pennsylvania, mor...
9 Sep 202147min
Fire Protection for Flying Taxis
As the flying taxi industry readies for takeoff, critical fire, electrical, and life safety questions remain about the ground infrastructure needed to make commercial use of electric vertical takeoff ...
24 Aug 202143min
The Push for Home Fire Sprinklers
When home fire sprinklers are present, residents are 80 percent more likely to survive a fire, and yet they are installed in only a fraction of new homes. For the past 25 years, a group called the Hom...
10 Aug 202146min
40 Years of Fire Data
For much of the past year, NFPA researchers have been working on a gigantic project to collect and analyze the last four decades of residential fire statistics in the United States. While they found t...
27 Jul 202139min
