As many as 80 percent of homes lost to wildfires could have been saved if owners had followed some advice. While Florida typically is known for its hot, humid summers — which usually extend into ...

New legislation could ban the use of harmful chemicals in firefighter gear. Firefighters said while they're braving dangerous ...

It all is done because fire restores minerals and nutrients to the prairie soil, renewing and refreshing it to stimulate a ...

LAist partnered with USC researchers to test samples of Phos-Chek, the fire retardant dropped on the Eaton and Palisades fires. The results came back positive for heavy metals including arsenic ...

firefighting aircraft began drawing bright red lines with fire retardant across the Santa Monica Mountains, in an effort to slow and contain the flames. By the time the fire was out about three ...

The so-called “miracle house” in Lahaina, with its metal roof and fire-resistant landscaping, was spared in the 2023 fire. (Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2024) “Miracle homes” like Steiner’s ...

The demonstration sheds had been built side-by-side, one to the building code from 1980s, the other to California's Wildfire Building Code, which mandates fire-resistant construction methods and ...

State Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Power Sources, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, 400044 Chongqing, China ...

Roughly a third of the ignitions occurred in areas the state Public Utilities Commission defines as having elevated or extreme fire risk.

Homeowners can also use these maps to assess their own risk and take potentially life-saving steps to make their properties more fire resistant. "There are more areas that are not traditionally ...

The community was built with fire-resistant materials and is “designed to IBHS’s highest level of protection against direct flame contact, radiant heat and embers, which helps to meaningfully ...

Roy Wright, IBHS CEO, emphasizes that "fireproof" is a misleading term. Fire resistant and fire prepared is a more accurate description. "Nothing is fireproof," he said. "What we can do is narrow ...