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Every second Tuesday of the month Jesse Roman, staff writer for NFPA Journal, and other experts will dive deep into the latest trends and issue in fire, electrical and life safety.
The Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study is perhaps the most comprehensive effort ever undertaken to understand and address firefighter cancer....
Flying cars are no longer science fiction. As soon as this summer, several U.S. states and Dubai will likely have flying taxies buzzing arou...
For the last few decades, Australia has taken a proactive and centralized approach to wildfire mitigation. It's wildfire building codes are...
In February, responders in Florida successfully rescued a 7-foot, 400-pound manatee that had wiggled his way up a concrete pipe and became t...
The race to cash in on artificial intelligence has triggered a data center building boom that is quickly becoming the largest infrastructure...
Volunteer firefighters are the backbone of the U.S. emergency response system, but since 2008, nearly 200,000 volunteers have left the fire...
In the early hours of New Year's Day, a blaze erupted at Le Constellation, a popular bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, killing 40 young peo...
Every five years since 2001, NFPA has conducted a massive research project known as the Needs Assessment of the U.S. Fire Service . It's a s...
About 80 percent of female firefighters say that their personal protective clothing doesn't fit right, and studies show that ill-fitting gea...
Myriad new tools have emerged in recent years that claim to help firefighters safely contain and extinguish electric vehicle fires. However,...
Cooking is such a routine part of everyday life that it's easy to overlook its potential dangers. According to NFPA research, cooking is the...
In even the most destructive wildfires, some structures survive untouched while everything around them is incinerated. It begs the question:...
The fire protection engineering profession is in a strange place right now. For one thing, there's a growing global shortage of FPEs just as...
Not long ago, a dirty, sooty turnout coat and helmet was a badge of honor in the fire service—tangible proof that a firefighter was in the a...
Fire Prevention Week, which runs this year from October 5–11, is the longest running public safety observance in United States history. This...
On January 19, 2000, Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, then 18-year-old freshman roommates at Seton Hall University, were severely burned when...
In October 2023, a 40-year-old man armed with semi-automatic rifle opened fire inside a bowling alley and later at a nearby restaurant in th...
Decades from now when we name at the seminal fires from the 21st Century, the Grenfell Tower fire in London, which killed 72 people in June...
More than 80 percent of the world's population lives in low-and-middle income countries, according to the World Bank. In these nations, it's...
Since 2022, New York has experienced more than 800 fires sparked by lithium-ion batteries, leading to 30 deaths and more than 400 injuries....
As we've noted on the podcast a few times recently, standard development organizations and safety professionals are facing several significa...
As summer weather begins in the Northern Hemisphere, we revisit this very relevant episode from 2023. Heatwaves aren't just uncomfortable, t...
Tribal nations and native communities across North America are consistently one of the highest-risk population groups for a range of health...
May is Electrical Safety Month, which is a good time to remember that dozens of people across the world suffer injuries from electrical haza...
Carbon monoxide is known as the silent killer, but it doesn't have to kill you to have permanent consequences. There is growing evidence tha...
As the weather in the Northern Hemisphere starts to shift to spring and construction season gears up, we revisist an episode from 2021 about...
This is the second part of our series looking at how fire and life safety codes are being delayed, erased, and watered down across the Unite...
There is a serious threat to safety happening now that isn't getting nearly enough attention, according to many state fire marshals and fire...
As the Los Angeles area wildfires exploded in early January, a nonprofit organization called MySafe:LA leapt into action, disseminating time...
In 1973, fire killed and injured more people in the United States than in any other industrialized nation in the world. The next year, Congr...
Modern warehouses and distribution centers are huge. Some have footprints larger than 60 American football fields and are filled with densel...
In the last week, huge swaths of metro Los Angeles have been devastated by wildfires fueled by parched vegetation and hurricane force winds....
You could make the argument that artificial intelligence was the most consequential new technology for fire and life safety in 2024. Several...
This summer, long-awaited changes to the standard that sets the performance requirements for smoke alarms went into effect, marking a new er...
Although hospital fires are rare in the United States, that's not the case around the world. Recent deadly fires at hospitals in India —incl...
Nearly all jurisdictions in the United States enforce codes that require two exit stairwells in residential buildings above three or four st...
As online retail flourishes, distribution centers are installing new and more advanced automated storage and retrieval systems (or ASRS). Th...
When hurricane Ian tore through Florida in September 2022, it left a trail of destruction—but not at Babcock Ranch, a 2,000-home development...
This month, a comprehensive new survey on smoke alarm use in the U.S. found that 16 percent of households—as many as 53 million people—do no...
As fire departments increasingly focus on fire prevention and community risk reduction (CRR), several new challenges have emerged. In some c...
For fire safety educators, breaking through the noise to deliver the right messages to the people who need to hear it can be an enormous cha...
The number of micro-distilleries in the U.S. has ballooned from just 500 in 2014, to more than 2,700 today, according to the American Craft...
Research has shown that doing wildfire mitigation work, like replacing wooden shingles or removing dead leaves from the gutters, drastically...
Despite overwhelming proof that home fire sprinklers save lives, fewer than 10 percent of all new homes being built in the United States tod...
In March, NFPA announced the formation of a new for-profit corporation called NFPA Global Solutions, a venture unique from anything NFPA has...
Electric Shock Drowning claims possibly dozens of lives each year, but most people have never heard of it. Our guest today, David Rifkin, is...
We wrap up Electrical Safety Month with a powerful reminder for anyone doing hazardous work of why you can't afford to be complacent about s...
In February 2023, Chief Brian Nardelli of the Brockton Fire Department in Massachusetts found himself at the helm of one of the most complex...
Residential hoarding poses numerous dangers and fire risks for residents and firefighters, yet communities have struggled to find meaningful...
In most years, more firefighters die by suicide than from accidents or injuries that happen in the line of duty, according to the Firefighte...