One particularly tough circumstance that can stall an attack from the outset is a violent condition directly behind the door you are trying to gain access through. I refer not to just a “good fire” in ...

Upon arrival, Chief 11-10 reported smoke showing from the second floor of a two story wood frame dwelling. The crew of Engine 11 advanced a 1 ¾” handline to side A and entered the structure on the ...

This is the terrifying moment that a violent jet of smoke and flames bursts out of a shipping container. The deadly phenomenon, known as a backdraft, is a firefighter's worst nightmare and occurs when ...

PITTSFIELD - A Pittsfield woman was burned Thursday afternoon in what fire officials are calling a "backdraft explosion" during a fire in the basement of her home at 94 Ridge Avenue. The woman was ...

Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building. The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin ...

A phenomenon known as a backdraft may have produced the explosive noise reported at a Regina home where a fire Thursday sent several people to hospital. The fire broke out late Thursday afternoon. A ...

A woman has been taken to hospital after she opened her door into her stairwell which was on fire and the backdraft blew into her Edinburgh flat. The woman was treated for smoke inhalation and an ...

Backdraft” has spectacle, it has stars, it has love, death, pain and lots of fire. But what it needed most was a final draft. The movie, covering a heroic bunch of firefighters in Chicago, seems like ...