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 Dec 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 Dec 20251h 6min
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
