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Firefighting Foam Advancements . . . Then and Now
It is often said that in order to shape the future you need to look…
Protecting High-risk Assets from Lightning Strikes
Lightning strikes are far more common than many people realise and, with the changes in…
Factors Relating to Knowledge Retention
You have just finished a training course – whether it was a part or full…
The United Nations Perspective to Search and Rescue
This article was written on the twenty-fifth anniversary of what many experts consider to be…
Clean Agent Long-Term Solution
A small fire in critical facilities such as data centres, telecommunication rooms, oil and gas…
High-Rise Firefighting
Keeping the Firefighting Options Open High-rise buildings can take a considerable length of time to…
New Research Challenge for Australasia
A new A$130 million Cooperative Research Centre will draw together all of Australia and New…
Conference Addresses the Need to Think the Unthinkable
2014 Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference The words of the Spanish…
Climate Change Drives Firefighting and Flood Response Innovation
Climate change is driving more extreme weather events around the world. To assist firefighters coping…
Fire & Weather – Understanding the Extremes
Hot temperatures, high winds and low humidity are important factors in bushfire behaviour. Predicting these…
Airport Design and the Role of Glazing Systems
Worldwide, Kenya has been much in the news recently, and not for the right reasons.…
The Sound of Safety
A critical factor in the quest to achieve fire safety is an effective fire safety…
The right response to CBRN
The range of potential threats makes CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear)/HazMat (Hazardous Materials) response…
The History of Thermal Imaging Innovation
The first infrared line scanner appeared in 1947 – one image took an hour to…
Comparing Low-Pressure Water Mist and Sprinklers
Although stable systems for fire extinguishing with water mist have been known for decades, they…
Sustainable Fire Suppression
Modern society relies heavily upon interconnectivity. The word infrastructure is no longer restricted to traditional…
Lighting up the Fireground
The seven fundamentals of firefighting were first codified by Lloyd Layman back in 1954. Remember…
Portable Extinguishers – The First line of Defence
A portable fire extinguisher is, by definition, an item of equipment for the purpose of…
Structural Collapse Rescue
The term structural collapse is often associated with large scale urban search and rescue operations…
A&NZ Disaster & Emergency Management Conference – 5th to 7th May 2014, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Australian and New Zealand communities are continually facing heart-breaking losses caused by the increasing severity…
Recent Trends in Fire Pump Applications
The Fire industry is historically hesitant to change, and why shouldn’t it be? If it…
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