Aerial services specialist Coulson Aviation is embarking on development of a firefighting aircraft based on the Boeing 767. The company’s US division states that the retirement of older widebody ...

INDIAN ORCHARD, Mass. (WWLP) – Twenty firefighters graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy today, representing 12 fire departments across the state after 10 weeks of rigorous training.

Courtesy of the Washington Department of Ecology Firefighters sometimes use a special type of foam to put out fires caused by flammable liquids, like gases or solvents. But that foam contains “forever ...

(CNN) — Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a “flashover” – a dangerous phenomenon in which everything in a room ...

The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) notes that 65 percent of American firefighters are volunteers and that, of the estimated 29,452 fire departments in the country, 18,873 are all volunteers ...

As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm ...