Volunteer firefighters respond to a wide array of emergencies across the country every day including fires, emergency medical incidents, natural disasters, hazardous materials incidents, and other ...

Fire department training programs tend to mainly focus on response to transportation accidents, but this article looks at the variety of facilities we can encounter. Everyday throughout the United ...

Over the past several years, the UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute has been working with the fire service to examine fire dynamics and firefighting tactics. More than two hundred experiments ...

When we think of a restaurant and the things that are associated with the occupancy type, we think of ordinary construction, cooking operations and eating/drinking. Generally the incidents that fire ...

The conditions under which military missions are or are likely to be conducted are increasingly varied with respect to the physical conditions, the number of tasks, and task complexity. Soldiers in ...

The Panel on Human Factors in the Design of Tactical Displays for the Individual Soldier was established by the National Research Council at the request of the U.S. Army Natick Research, Development, ...