SPRINGFIELD, MA—Two residents were displaced and a firefighter was injured in a blaze caused by a rooftop solar panel system malfunction on Wednesday. The two male residents will stay with relatives until repairs can be made to their home at 90 Rochelle St., said Fire Capt. … [Read more...]

Many firefighters have been injured or have died while trying to extinguish a basement fire or a fire on a level below them. Below grade fires can present different challenges based on the potential ventilation or the building construction. During the past year, field experience … [Read more...]

UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute - UL FSRI Advisory Board Member, Milwaukee Fire Department Battalion Chief Erich Roden discusses how there can be survivable spaces upon arrival at a single-family residential home. You are dispatched to a structure fire with possible … [Read more...]

UL FSRI is pleased release a new on-line training course as part of the National Institute of Justice project “Full-Scale Experiments to Study the Impact of Ventilation on Fire Patterns.” Divided into three sections: Heat & Temperature, Heat Transfer, and Fire Measurements, … [Read more...]

FDSOA and the Center for Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) at Drexel University have partnered to help you FOCUS on your safety culture. The Fire Service Organizational Culture of Safety (FOCUS) survey is the first safety culture tool developed specifically … [Read more...]

Losses due to wildfires are getting worse, and the challenges for fire services tackling the wildfires are increasing dramatically each year. With the funding from Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program, and in partnership with USFS, CalFire, and Los Angeles County Fire … [Read more...]

The UL FSRI Fire Investigation Data Portal is now available online! Clink on the links below to review the results from our NIJ (Award No. 2015-DN-BX-K052) funded “Full-Scale Experiments to Study the Impact of Ventilation on Fire Patterns” project. For this project, the team … [Read more...]

Access the report HERE As part of the DHS/AFG grant project, “Study of the Fire Service Training Environment: Safety, Fidelity, and Exposure,” twelve full-scale fire experiments were conducted within an acquired test structure using two common training fuel packages: 1) pallets, … [Read more...]

As part of the DHS/AFG grant “Study of the Fire Service Training Environment: Safety, Fidelity, and Exposure,” UL FSRI conducted experiments to quantify the fire dynamics and fidelity of common training fuels. The study also compared common wood-based training fuels to innovative … [Read more...]

In episode 22, check out UL FSRI Advisory Board Member, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel as he discusses tactical considerations to avoid getting caught in the flow path exhaust while fighting a basement fire. Basement fires can be difficult to control and extinguish … [Read more...]