A flashover was involved in the 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people, a disaster that Mr. Kerber said ...

Authorities probing a fire that killed dozens at a Swiss ski-resort bar say it appears to be a textbook case of what fire ...

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 ...

It goes without saying: Firefighting is dangerous work. Responding, for example, to a compartment fire, firefighters are faced with dynamic, rapidly changing conditions that present a significant ...

The leading theory for the Swiss ski resort bar fire suggests that sparklers attached to bottles for show ignited the ceiling ...

Firefighters across the Peninsula have access to a new training laboratory that could help save your life — and their own. The lab allows firefighters to experience and learn to prevent a flashover. A ...

Firefighters routinely run into the flames. If they are inside when a flashover occurs, they will die. To avoid injuries or casualties, about 100 Livingston County firefighters and a few from South ...

WILKES-BARRE — It was back to school Wednesday for some city firefighters. They moved from classroom work to a fire- and smoke-filled simulator to identify the conditions that lead up to the dangerous ...

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 ...