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 ...

Lower Buckeye Road, giving local crews a purpose‑built, roughly six‑acre campus for live‑fire and technical‑rescue drills.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV)— Twelve recruits from the Terre Haute Fire Department got the chance to simulate what a house fire could be like during the department’s live burn training session.