How Australia is Tackling Wildfire
For the last few decades, Australia has taken a proactive and centralized approach to wildfire mitigation. It's wildfire building codes are standardized and mostly mandatory throughout the country, an...
24 Mar 40min
Manatee Rescue
In February, responders in Florida successfully rescued a 7-foot, 400-pound manatee that had wiggled his way up a concrete pipe and became trapped in a stormwater drain under the road. The unusual res...
10 Mar 42min
The Data Center Boom
The race to cash in on artificial intelligence has triggered a data center building boom that is quickly becoming the largest infrastructure effort of our time. With these enormous facilities being bu...
24 Feb 1h 2min
The Volunteer Crisis
Volunteer firefighters are the backbone of the U.S. emergency response system, but since 2008, nearly 200,000 volunteers have left the fire service, a drop of almost 25 percent. To make things worse, ...
10 Feb 1h 5min
Swiss Nightclub Fire Follows a Familiar and Tragic Script
In the early hours of New Year's Day, a blaze erupted at Le Constellation, a popular bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, killing 40 young people and injuring more than 100 others. Authorities believe t...
27 Jan 49min
Assessing the Needs of the U.S. Fire Service
Every five years since 2001, NFPA has conducted a massive research project known as the Needs Assessment of the U.S. Fire Service. It's a survey that goes out to about 30,000 fire departments across ...
8 Jan 48min
Will Female Firefighters Soon Have Better Fitting Gear?
About 80 percent of female firefighters say that their personal protective clothing doesn't fit right, and studies show that ill-fitting gear puts women at greater risk of being injured on the job. In...
23 Des 202541min
Testing the EV Toolbox
Myriad new tools have emerged in recent years that claim to help firefighters safely contain and extinguish electric vehicle fires. However, few of these tools have been independently tested, until no...
9 Des 20251h 6min
