Flashover is a well-known dangerous phenomenon to those in fire service. But few have experienced it. "Flashover is virtually unsurvivable by a firefighter," said Tim Tyler, firefighter/EMT for ...

In my first article on this topic, “The Art of “Reading Fire,” I discussed a new mnemonic for fire behavior indicators, B-SAHF, which stands for Smoke, Air, Heat and Flame, all in the context of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fatal fire that engulfed a Swiss bar on New Year's Eve would likely have killed even a firefighter in full protective gear — let alone the hundreds of young people freely celebrating inside. At ...

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 ...

Flashover fires are one of the most feared phenomenons among firefighters. It happens when a room gets so hot that everything, even the gases in the air, spontaneously combust. 10TV News teamed up ...