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The overall 10-year fire death rate trend increased 3% from 2010 to 2019. This research presents a snapshot of fire losses by state reported through the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) in 2019. Also included is information about fire departments and firefighter and home fire fatalities in 2021.
Scientists testified before Congress on Tuesday to request funding for new software that predicts the behavior of ever bigger fires — to compute, for example, how a wildfire would move through a residential neighborhood. The next day, President Biden promised to provide more resources, including higher pay for federal firefighters and making those positions year-round …
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UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute conducted three experiments on an intermodal container that was configured to represent an outdoor modular walk-in energy storage system, such as the one where an explosion occurred in April 2019. The experiments were designed to demonstrate the fundamental fire and explosion hazards that develop when cascading thermal runaway occurs inside …
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No one can predict when an emergency will occur or what shape it will take. It could look like a hurricane causing widespread power outages and downed trees, or it could be a chemical fire that takes place down the road from a hospital housing hundreds of at-risk patients.
As part of CHEMTREC’s 50th anniversary celebration, a total of $50,000 will be awarded as part of this year’s Hazmat Emergencies Local Preparedness (HELP) Award. The application period will close on Sept. 1, 2021.
Officials had no idea more than 200,000 lithium batteries were stored in an Illinois warehouse until it caught fire. At 11:45 a.m. June 29 in the small Illinois city of Morris, firefighters were dispatched to a warehouse fire. City officials say they had no idea what was in the 70,000-square-foot warehouse and that no permits …
Fires can occur anywhere but fires that affect our homes are often the most tragic and the most preventable. This report describes the characteristics of civilian fire fatalities in residential buildings reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System for 2017‑2019.
On May 28, President Biden released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget request. Congress will now spend the summer deliberating the FY 2022 appropriations bills with the aim of passing them before the October 1 start of the fiscal year.
With the recent death of two Oklahoma firefighters in a residential structure fire, the phrase “know the enemy” seems more applicable as ever for firefighters…
