Like most of the world, many of us watched with horror the “breaking news” that appeared across all media outlets last Wednesday, as we here in the United States prepared to be thankful the next day.

Smoke, not flames, caused the deaths of 25 people in a nightclub fire at Arpora, exposing serious lapses in fire safety enforcement, planning, and preparedness in high-occupancy entertainment venues.

The study of flame spread and fire behaviour in microgravity is essential for advancing fire safety in spacecraft and other low-gravity environments. In microgravity, the traditional forces that drive ...

Firefighters have worked through the night tackling a gorse blaze on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. Although the cause of the blaze is still unknown, it was almost certainly caused by humans, fire chiefs ...