LEADER has developed an online, interactive course on fire ventilation. Control the air to control the fire. Smoke is the real danger of fires in enclosed areas. When fires burn, the thick dense smoke ...

I learned a great deal about firefighting and the fire service from my father, who joined the fire department in 1938 and retired as fire chief in 1975, the year after I started as a career ...

Today’s fires aren’t the same fires of 100 years ago, but we’re still using some of the same techniques to put them out. These techniques were intended for conventionally built structures with natural ...

OROVILLE — Traditional Japanese homes are made of clay and usually burn completely, but slowly, which often allows residents time to get out during a fire. Modern Western-style homes, on the other ...