Cooking Fire Facts and Figures
Cooking is such a routine part of everyday life that it's easy to overlook its potential dangers. According to NFPA research, cooking is the leading cause of reported home fires, home fire injuries, a...
25 Nov 202525min
Tilting the Wildfire Odds
In even the most destructive wildfires, some structures survive untouched while everything around them is incinerated. It begs the question: What factors are most responsible for determining if a home...
11 Nov 202552min
Fire Protection Engineering's Shifting Landscape
The fire protection engineering profession is in a strange place right now. For one thing, there's a growing global shortage of FPEs just as demand for their services is surging. Factors such as accel...
28 Okt 202537min
How Clean is Clean?
Not long ago, a dirty, sooty turnout coat and helmet was a badge of honor in the fire service—tangible proof that a firefighter was in the action. But as concern grew about the high levels of cancer i...
14 Okt 202552min
Lithium-Ion Safety Messaging
Fire Prevention Week, which runs this year from October 5–11, is the longest running public safety observance in United States history. This year for the first time, the Fire Prevention Week theme wil...
23 Sep 202545min
Fire On Campus: Turning Pain Into Purpose
On January 19, 2000, Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, then 18-year-old freshman roommates at Seton Hall University, were severely burned when the residence hall they lived in caught fire. The blaze, on...
9 Sep 202553min
Lessons From Lewiston
In October 2023, a 40-year-old man armed with semi-automatic rifle opened fire inside a bowling alley and later at a nearby restaurant in the small city of Lewiston, Maine. Between the two incidents, ...
26 Aug 202532min
Grenfell's Enduring Lessons
Decades from now when we name at the seminal fires from the 21st Century, the Grenfell Tower fire in London, which killed 72 people in June 2017, will certainly be the list. Today on the podcast, we c...
12 Aug 202549min
