Flashover training is essential for firefighters. Although this type of training used to be rare, it has become more and more commonplace as the cost of the flashover prop has dropped and departments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo showing the bar where a fire broke out during New Year's Eve celebrations in the Alpine ski resort town of Crans-Montana, ...

Flashover training offers firefighters the opportunity to observe fire behavior and the signs that lead to a flashover. Training will be conducted in a Phase 1 training container from Swede Survival ...

Firefighters across the Peninsula have access to a new training laboratory that could help save your life — and their own. The lab allows firefighters to experience and learn to prevent a flashover. A ...

JACKSON, MI - The temperature rose to about 1,100 degrees in a dark, enclosed compartment. Even in breathing masks and special turnout gear, firefighters exposed to such heat could survive for only ...

For the first time this March, the cadets enrolled in the fire science technology program at Lone Star College-Montgomery won’t have to pack up all their gear and drive to Houston for an important ...

Several weeks ago, I happened to be out at a fire department training center as the department trained with thermal imagers. The only training they planned to conduct was to get the flashover ...

Paul Smit had just seconds to respond to a fire in his house. He could have left through the front door, just a few feet away. Instead, he hurried to the mudroom to get the fire extinguisher. That ...

A child and a man died in a house fire that engulfed a two-story home in New Jersey early Friday and injured 10 people, including three children, authorities say. The fire broke out at the home on ...

(CNN) — Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a “flashover” – a dangerous phenomenon in which everything in a room ...