On Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, a four-alarm fire destroyed the Harvard Plaza office building in Southfield, MI. Early recognition of possible backdraft conditions prevented injuries to firefighters when ...

Boston fire officials say a vicious restaurant fire that claimed the lives of two Boston firefighters and injured 10 others Wednesday night may have been smoldering for at least an hour in a ...

In my first article on this topic, “The Art of “Reading Fire,” I discussed a new mnemonic for fire behavior indicators, B-SAHF, which stands for Smoke, Air, Heat and Flame, all in the context of ...

It was a cool November night in the fall of 1988. I was a battalion chief for a large suburban fire department in the Sacramento, Calif., area. My battalion was very urbanized and the largest in the ...