Five years ago on Feb. 20, 2003, pyrotechnics lit during a concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., started a rapidly spreading fire that caused the deaths of 100 people. Within a week, ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Fire Research Laboratory has spurred numerous improvements in fire safety across the country. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the ...

The U.S. Army uses NIST's PROFISSY computer program to help understand the performance and calculate the maximum charging pressure for this automatic fire extinguishing system, which protects the crew ...

The author breaks downs some of the common and repetitive themes that were brought to his attention at the "Fire Dynamics for the Fire Service" seminar. The National Institute for Standards and ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the International Association of Fire Fighters have prepared an educational resource for fire chiefs, firefighters, and ...

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is calling on the organizations that develop building and fire safety codes, standards and practices—and the state and ...

RESTON, Va. --The World Trade Center towers would likely not have collapsed if the spray-on fireproofing had not been dislodged by the impact of the aircraft, concludes a report issued today by the ...

GAITHERSBURG, MD – As firefighters’ workplaces change, it’s important they adapt. But, are they? NIST Fire Protection Engineer Dan Madrzykowski posed that question to more than 250 firefighters during ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced it is beginning a technical study of the June 18, 2007, fire at a furniture store/warehouse in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine ...

The results of a landmark study on high-rise fires and the best ways to battle them were released at the 2013 Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. last week, prompting many fire ...

Major factors contributing to a rapid spread of fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., on June 18, 2007, included large open spaces with furniture providing high fuel loads, the inward rush ...