The first time I heard the words “the Swede,” I was watching a movie called “Heartbreak Ridge” starring Clint Eastwood as a rough and tough Marine Gunnery Sergeant trying to train a group of misfit ...

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 ignites ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland Fire & Rescue crews experienced a “flashover” event while working to contain a fire in southeast Portland on Wednesday morning. Crews responded to a fire at a house ...

Asheville firefighters had close calls at a house fire Monday. AFD Fire Chief Scott Burnette told WLOS three firefighters who lost the hose line were trapped in the room by the flashover. They bailed ...

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 ...

If you're an engineer developing a device to predict a flashover, you've got to know if the device is going to work in deadly conditions. Last week, engineers and graduate students at Worcester ...