The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety research center in Chester County conducts full-scale wildfire experiments ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fairborn Fire Department is partnering with the UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute to conduct a series of live-fire experiments. The experiments begin Friday and will last one week in the ...

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 ...

Sandia National Labs are conducting a controlled fire experiment today. Sandia Labs says black smoke may be visible across the city during the test. The labs will be burning liquid jet fuel and the ...

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 ...

A simple science-style experiment showing how a paper cup filled with water can resist burning when exposed to flame.