Flashover training is essential for firefighters. Although this type of training used to be rare, it has become more and more commonplace as the cost of the flashover prop has dropped and departments ...

The first time I heard the words “the Swede,” I was watching a movie called “Heartbreak Ridge” starring Clint Eastwood as a rough and tough Marine Gunnery Sergeant trying to train a group of misfit ...

The fatal fire that engulfed a Swiss bar on New Year's Eve would likely have killed even a firefighter in full protective gear — let alone the hundreds of young people freely celebrating inside. At ...

Several weeks ago, I happened to be out at a fire department training center as the department trained with thermal imagers. The only training they planned to conduct was to get the flashover ...

A new firefighter training lab has come to the Central Coast. Thanks to a 1.4 million dollar anonymous donation, Allan Hancock College in Lompoc has a new Flashover Simulator. Today’s fire academy ...

These burns conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology show how quickly a flashover occurs. The mission of Firehouse is to educate and inspire firefighters so that they can ...

The New Year’s Day inferno that ripped through a crowded bar in southern Switzerland, killing at least 40 people and injuring 119, spread so rapidly because of what is known as a flashover, local ...

A flashover is an event where an entire room is rapidly engulfed in flames. By John Yoon The cause of the fire that left dozens dead at a bar in Switzerland in the early hours of Thursday is still ...