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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…
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…
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…
The resilience to rebuild
The year started for many Australians in an unimaginable and devastating way; the bushfire crisis…
Trusting reliable rugged solutions in times of emergency
The fire-services industry has recently evolved with the emergence of new technologies such as software…
National support to sustain local effort
Sitting in NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Headquarters and observing a vast operations centre with…
The causes of fire fatalities and serious fire injuries in Scotland
Fire fatalities in Great Britain have gradually been decreasing over the last three decades but…
Flame detection through the use of 3D mapping to aircraft hangars
In this first of a two-part article, William Pittman, PhD discusses the challenges posed by…
Spot fires – a dynamic interaction
New research is developing the first two-dimensional fire-simulation model that can operate in faster than…
The birth of the multifunctional first-response fire truck
In the past, the main task of firefighting was to extinguish fires and rescue people.…
New SA routine service registration confirms FPA Australia proposal
The South Australian Government announced changes in June 2019 to the restricted classes of plumbing…
Emergency planning for vulnerable persons with a disability
The raised awareness in Australia with buildings that have combustible cladding is the result of…
Fire hazard properties of internal wall and ceiling linings
Fire properties of building products are regulated to minimize rapid fire spread and smoke growth…
Understanding preventable residential fire fatalities
More than one residential fire-related death occurs every week in Australia – deaths that are…
Chemicals in Air and Dust at Australian Fire Stations
Recently there has been an exponential increase in the number of studies focused on chemical…
