Photo: An abandoned apartment building on Governor's Island, New York, provided a real-life laboratory for fire researchers studying wind-driven fires and tactics to combat them. (NIST) Fire ...

Brian Teears explains how fire dynamics has changed as a result of modern construction and, thus, why officers and firefighters must account for this in terms of how heat, air and water interact.

Reick, a regional fire chief in Germany, looks the differences in how Europe studies flow paths and ventilation as well as LODDs compared to their US counterparts. Michael Reick, Voluntary firefighter ...

In fire experiments conducted in uniformly furnished, but vacant Chicago-area townhouses, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers uncovered temperature and heat-flow ...