The fire in the house at 333 Pfingsten Rd. in Northbrook started on a sofa in the living room. In minutes, the room was engulfed in flames, the smoke detectors bleating out their alarm, unheeded. No ...
Researchers from NIST and UL's Firefighter Safety Research Institute studied a 2012 basement fire that seriously injured two Prince George's County, MD, firefighters. June 20, 2017 Researchers from ...
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 ...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags--devices that can transmit data over short distances to identify objects, animals or people--have become increasingly popular for tracking everything from ...