In my first article on this topic, “The Art of “Reading Fire,” I discussed a new mnemonic for fire behavior indicators, B-SAHF, which stands for Smoke, Air, Heat and Flame, all in the context of ...

Asheville firefighters had close calls at a house fire Monday. AFD Fire Chief Scott Burnette told WLOS three firefighters who lost the hose line were trapped in the room by the flashover. They bailed ...

In firefighting, the worst flames are the ones you don’t see coming. Amid the chaos of a burning building, it is difficult to notice the signs of impending flashover — a deadly fire phenomenon wherein ...

Flashover is a well-known dangerous phenomenon to those in fire service. But few have experienced it. "Flashover is virtually unsurvivable by a firefighter," said Tim Tyler, firefighter/EMT for ...

If you're an engineer developing a device to predict a flashover, you've got to know if the device is going to work in deadly conditions. Last week, engineers and graduate students at Worcester ...

KISSIMMEE — It’s a firefighter’s worst nightmare: a superheated blast of 1,200-degree air that incinerates anything — and anyone — it touches. Called a “flashover,” it is triggered when a fire in an ...