CRR: The Good ... and Not So Good
Over the last decade or so, community risk reduction (CRR) has gone from a novelty to perhaps the biggest buzz term in the safety industry....
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The State of Electrical Safety
As National Electrical Safety Month winds down, we are taking stock of some of the biggest electrical safety trends, hazards, and challenges...
Is 911 in Trouble?
In the United States, when someone calls 911 the call is routed to an operator at a public safety answering point, or PSAP. But news outlets...
10 Years of Progress on Cancer
The Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study is perhaps the most comprehensive effort ever undertaken to understand and address firefighter cancer....
Flying Cars are Finally Here. Are they Safe?
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...
How Australia is Tackling Wildfire
For the last few decades, Australia has taken a proactive and centralized approach to wildfire mitigation. It's wildfire building codes are...
Manatee Rescue
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 Data Center Boom
The race to cash in on artificial intelligence has triggered a data center building boom that is quickly becoming the largest infrastructure...
The Volunteer Crisis
Volunteer firefighters are the backbone of the U.S. emergency response system, but since 2008, nearly 200,000 volunteers have left the fire...
Swiss Nightclub Fire Follows a Familiar and Tragic Script
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...
Assessing the Needs of the U.S. Fire Service
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...
Will Female Firefighters Soon Have Better Fitting Gear?
About 80 percent of female firefighters say that their personal protective clothing doesn't fit right, and studies show that ill-fitting gea...
Testing the EV Toolbox
Myriad new tools have emerged in recent years that claim to help firefighters safely contain and extinguish electric vehicle fires. However,...
Cooking Fire Facts and Figures
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...
Tilting the Wildfire Odds
In even the most destructive wildfires, some structures survive untouched while everything around them is incinerated. It begs the question:...
Fire Protection Engineering's Shifting Landscape
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...
How Clean is Clean?
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...
Lithium-Ion Safety Messaging
Fire Prevention Week, which runs this year from October 5–11, is the longest running public safety observance in United States history. This...
Fire On Campus: Turning Pain Into Purpose
On January 19, 2000, Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, then 18-year-old freshman roommates at Seton Hall University, were severely burned when...
Lessons From Lewiston
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...