For the first time this March, the cadets enrolled in the fire science technology program at Lone Star College-Montgomery won’t have to pack up all their gear and drive to Houston for an important ...

Flashover training is essential for firefighters. Although this type of training used to be rare, it has become more and more commonplace as the cost of the flashover prop has dropped and departments ...

Lone Star College-Montgomery is getting fired up over its firefighter-training program. The college's state-of-the-art training facility at The Woodlands Emergency Training Center recently acquired a ...

MCALESTER ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT, Okla. -- Thick black smoke slowly descended, filling the small room, engulfing the eight firefighters here in a noxious cloud. As the heat built to nearly 1,000 ...

JACKSON, Mich. (WLNS) – When a fire breaks out, many try to escape the flames but firefighters do the opposite. Oakland Community College fire training instructor Nick Miller says knowing how quickly ...

Flashover training offers firefighters the opportunity to observe fire behavior and the signs that lead to a flashover. Training will be conducted in a Phase 1 training container from Swede Survival ...

According to local fire officials, the most notable instance of “flashover” during a structure fire was the tragic 1989 flashover in Oklahoma City that killed three fire fighters. “A flashover fire ...

JACKSON, MI - The temperature rose to about 1,100 degrees in a dark, enclosed compartment. Even in breathing masks and special turnout gear, firefighters exposed to such heat could survive for only ...

Hundreds of firefighters from around the country are in Tulsa for additional training on saving lives. Volunteers and full-time firefighters from 8 different states attended Friday’s state fire school ...

At the Terre Haute Fire Department Training Center, Mayor Brandon Sakbun on Saturday was employing a bulky firefighting tool called a cutter to slice the driver’s door off of an SUV to rescue a dummy ...