As drought conditions are expected to continue into the hot and humid summer months, wildfire safety has to be top of mind in ...

Civil and environmental engineering researchers conducted unique live fire experiments to study the kinematics of firebrands, burning embers cast off from wildfires that cause spot fires leading to ...

RICHBURG — In rural Chester County, a house burned to the ground May 13 as local firefighters stood by watching flames pour out of windows until the roof crumbled and walls collapsed. This was no ...

Since 2000, wildfires have destroyed an average of seven million acres each year. And with rising global temperatures from climate change, the threat is growing exponentially. Researchers at labs and ...

Bright flecks of burning wood stream through the smoky air and toward a hapless house. Before the one-story structure, the glowing specks, each merely centimeters in size, seem insignificant. But each ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two upcoming experiments by the Sandia National Laboratories could cause a plume of black smoke to be visible in Albuquerque. The two controlled fire experiments will take ...

Underwriters Laboratories, a fire safety research group, has been conducting fire experiments in Fairborn since Sept. 13. The final experiment is on Thursday, a researcher said. Fire departments from ...