Flashover training is essential for firefighters. Although this type of training used to be rare, it has become more and more commonplace as the cost of the flashover prop has dropped and departments ...

The New Year’s Day inferno that ripped through a crowded bar in southern Switzerland, killing at least 40 people and injuring 119, spread so rapidly because of what is known as a flashover, local ...

(CNN) — Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a “flashover” – a dangerous phenomenon in which everything in a room ...

It’s the firefighter’s nightmare — a flashover, a fire involving heat so intense that everything in a room, including anyone in it, ignites at the same time. Last week more than 85 Menlo Park Fire ...

The term "flashover" is often used in connection with serious fires. The Valais authorities assume that such an event could also have occurred in Crans-Montana VS. But what exactly does that mean?

Several weeks ago, I happened to be out at a fire department training center as the department trained with thermal imagers. The only training they planned to conduct was to get the flashover ...

It goes without saying: Firefighting is dangerous work. Responding, for example, to a compartment fire, firefighters are faced with dynamic, rapidly changing conditions that present a significant ...

DUNLAP, Iowa (KTIV) - A fire on Wednesday, Aug. 6, destroyed a business in an Iowa town of a little over 1,000 people. City officials confirmed a fire took place in Dunlap at Rockin K Solutions, a ...