Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

Fire season is almost over, and so far San Diego has been very lucky with no major wildfires, but it’s not to soon to begin thinking about firescaping your home for the long term. Firescaping ...

A Michigan fire chief recently shared with me the floor plans for his new fire station. Before his next review, the chief asked for my thoughts. After emphasizing I was not an architect, I reviewed ...

Fire safety design is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to minimise risk and ensure structural integrity during fire events by merging advanced material science, computational modelling, and robust ...

A fire station is more than a house with a big garage — as anyone who has experienced the travails of funding, designing and constructing a new one (or remodeling an old one) can attest. A fire ...

Residents of a senior care facility are evacuated as the Eaton Fire approaches Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (Photo by Ethan Swope / AP) This is your first of three free stories this ...

Not only is Fairfax City’s Fire Station 33 a modern, state-of-the-art facility, it’s also an award-winning one. And Fire Chief John O’Neal received that honor, on behalf of the Fire Department, at the ...

The home fire extinguisher has gotten a makeover. For entrepreneur Rodolphe Gimenez, moving into a new home sparked an idea for decorative fire extinguishers that would provide safety without ...

Emcee Flamme and DJ Feu teach the group about the process of building different fires. Emcee Flamme and DJ Feu teach the group about the process of building different fires and fire safety. Biraland ...