Australia suffered some of its worst bushfires ever in the summer of 2019/2020, a period…
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Dealing with the challenges of conducting fire-protection work in Australia during COVID-19
We are living in unprecedented times, with COVID-19 gripping communities across the globe. Shutdowns, restrictions…
Assessing peat fires for planning and control
Peat is an accumulation of partially decomposed plant debris in a water-saturated, anaerobic environment. Peatlands…
Taking hold of fire protection’s future
On 6 April, fire-safety assessment changed. From that date, any practitioner who assesses and endorses…
Learning from assembly occupancy tragedies
On 4 December 2009, partygoers packed the Lame Horse, a nightclub in the Russian city…
Command Light – The all-new Helios tower line-up
In an era of distracted drivers and demanding scenes, firefighters face many obstacles, but seeing…
ESKA – Glove professionals from Austria
For 108 years the Austrian family business ESKA has specialized in the development and manufacturing…
Knowledge-sharing agreement to boost property resilience against fire
FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, and the Indonesian Fire &…
2019/20: Australia’s worst fire season on record
Australia has just been through its worst fire season with respect to areas burnt and…
NFPA fire investigation standards help to identify JPRs and fire causes
In the mid-1970s, salty old fire investigators would work their way through the smoky ruins…
Natural hazards: the importance of wind research
Extreme wind hazards have a substantial societal and environmental impact on countries. Due to the…
Flammable cladding in China: A site study 2020
Despite recent tragedies throughout the world, some countries, even in 2020, continue to use unsafe,…
Women in aviation #SoCanShe
The disparity in gender within the aviation sector tells its own story. In Victoria’s emergency…
Next-Gen fire station alerting
Radical new designs in fire station alerting technology are helping to save lives and property.…
How to buy emergency scene lighting
What you can’t see can hurt you! Never is that statement truer than when firefighters…
International perspectives on risk reduction
Fresh from the two-day International Symposium hosted by West Midlands Fire Service, Phil Loach shares…
22 years of performance-based fire engineering: where did it get us?
In 1997 Australia adopted a performance-based building code (BCA96). It came about from decades of…
Database crucial for learning lessons from the past
Australia’s emergency services can now easily navigate through 130 years of data from inquiries, reviews…
Might some current small-scale approval fire tests be dangerously misleading us?
We take it for granted that many small-scale approval tests use heptane as a substitute…
In safe hands
Regulations and standards keep firefighters safe and provide reassurance that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is…
Are inquiries the way to learn after attending a significant fire?
Do you learn from your experiences at a fire, or are there many important issues…