NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting, is seeking public input on its preliminary draft. The preliminary draft allows the public to review and submit any suggested revisions prior to the publication of its First Draft Report. The deadline for submitting public input for … [Read more...]

UL FSRI and our Fire Safety Public Education Advisory Group (Becki White, Nick Ledin, PJ Norwood, John Shafer and Sean DeCrane) are proud to announce the launch of our Year 2 Close Your Door fire public safety campaign, Close Before You Doze. While our Year 1 campaign focused … [Read more...]

Testing for the FEMA/DHS2014 grant project focused on quantifying the firefighter training environment in various structure types utilizing differing fuel loads is on-going. Currently, experiments are being conducted at the Delaware County Emergency Services Training Center in … [Read more...]

UL FSRI collaborated with the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) and the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) to produce a FIREHOUSE supplement 10 Considerations Related to Cardiovascular and Chemical Exposure Risks. The 10 key considerations based on … [Read more...]

UL FSRI is conducting a study to examine how ventilation impacts fire damage and the resulting fire patterns in structures representing single family homes. Knowledge of fire dynamics is critical for fire investigators to identify a fire’s area of origin and determine a cause; … [Read more...]

The NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation released the report Fire Fighter Equipment Operational Environment: Evaluation of Thermal Conditions written by UL FSRI’s Dan Madrzykowski. The goal of this study was to review the available literature to develop a quantitative … [Read more...]

hank you for your interest in participating in the Protection from chemical, thermal, and cardiovascular risks: Impact of PPE laundering and hood design study that will be conducted at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI). We appreciate your willingness to improve our … [Read more...]

The new UL FSRI website was launched August 15th, 2017. Designed to improve access to the knowledge & resources being developed for FFs https://ulfirefightersafety.org/  … [Read more...]

I returned from FDIC 2017 with the nagging impression that the American fire service remains divided into two general camps regarding our tactical approaches: those who embrace the results of research, and have modified their methods accordingly; and those who have little accord … [Read more...]

In Virginia 29 people have died in house fires, in just 2017. If a fire breaks out some homes are more likely to burn to the ground than others; changing lives forever. Master firefighter Earl Copes with the Lynchburg Fire Department said the intensity of house fires is … [Read more...]

Dozens of firefighters throughout the region gathered in Delaware County to watch and learn how a structure burns, in hopes of using the research to help them combat basement blazes. Philadelphia’s finest were among them in hopes of gaining new insight. Trained fire … [Read more...]

During a controlled live burn for research purposes, firefighters had a chance to learn more about how firefighting tactics could potentially effect the burning building and how to operate more safely in a dangerous environment. International Society of Fire Service … [Read more...]

It's time for an all-new series of Training Minutes! This is our 20th season, which makes it 10 years of fire training video from some of the top firefighting experts in the industry. In this video, Cobb County (GA) Lt. Sean Gray is joined by Los Angeles County (CA) Capt. … [Read more...]