In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires has had ...

NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting, is the first NFPA document connecting fire dynamics research to response strategy, tactics, and best practices for firefighters controlling fires within ...

Lockheed wants to use AI and rapid connectivity to make firefighting tools—like this Los Angeles County Fire Department "Firehawk" helicopter—more effective. James D. Taiclet, Lockheed Martin LMT ...

March 29, 2021 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has launched free NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting online training for firefighters to learn safer and more effective ways ...

The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense. The MAFFS system can be installed inside C-130 ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has launched free NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting online training for firefighters to learn safer and more effective ways to handle fire ...

A new technology inspired by NASA research uses sound instead of water or foam to put out fires could change how firefighters battle flames. Sonic Fire Tech demonstrated the system Tuesday in Concord ...

Interest in Aboriginal fire knowledge has been high since last summer’s terrible bushfires. One initiative shows the huge potential benefits of this ancient practice – not just in Australia, but ...

As climate change makes fire seasons hotter and longer in the U.S., about 20,000 firefighters are currently working to contain blazes across the country. For decades now, some of California's ...