NEW YORK (AP) — The Fire Department will be setting controlled blazes in vacant buildings on Governors Island. It’s part of research aimed at obtaining important data on fire behavior. High-tech ...

The Fairborn Fire Department is partnering with the UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute to conduct a series of live-fire experiments. The experiments begin Friday and will last one week in the ...

The National Institute of Standards (NIST) conducted experiments in an abandoned high-rise building on New York City’s Governors Island to learn how to better control or suppress deadly heat and smoke ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two upcoming experiments by the Sandia National Laboratories could cause a plume of black smoke to be visible in Albuquerque. The two controlled fire experiments will take ...

Twenty shacks destroyed in five minutes. That's how quickly fires can spread in informal settlements. This is one of the major results of the world's largest informal settlement fire experiment ...