Nantucket Memorial Airport is transitioning away from the use of firefighting foam containing polyfluoroalkyl substances, or ...

Fire extinguishers are absolutely essential to help you protect your property from preventable damage, but do you know how to ...

You might wonder why a regular fire extinguisher, the kind you might have in your home or workplace, can't handle lithium-ion battery fires. SafeQuip, a leading distributor of fire-related equipment, ...

“It does save homes,” said Harry Statter of Frontline Wildfire Defense, a company that makes an app and a system that can ...

“It does save homes,” said Harry Statter of Frontline Wildfire Defense, a company that makes an app and a system that can ...

This is the dramatic moment a superbike burst into flames while being repaired by mechanics in China. Two technicians were fixing a BMW S1000RR when it suddenly combusted inside a workshop in Bozhou, ...

He said it was important to have the right extinguisher for the type of fire – for example, a foam extinguisher for a petrol blaze. Fire and Emergency’s website checkitsalright.nz provides ...

A University of Maine researcher had a lightbulb moment while watching news about wildfires raging through California in 2019. James Anderson saw clips of planes dumping out water to quench the flames ...

Israel’s cabinet approved an agreement on a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip that would free Israeli hostages, ending two days of debate that had underscored the pact’s fragility. The full cabinet ...

The chemical-free extinguisher could move ... developed at UMaine is not the only fire suppressant more effective than water. Fluorinated firefighting foam became widely used after it was invented ...

Now we come to the more immediately tractable causes of these fires. “Fire is a natural process that has shaped ecosystems for over 420 million years,” Iglesias says. “Indigenous people ...

The Eaton and Palisades fires are the first and second-most destructive in Southern California history. “The Palisades fire alone is the size of Manhattan; just imagine the debris,” McIlreavy ...