The deaths of a firefighting student and a volunteer in separate training accidents in Ontario underscore the astonishing lack of regulation that exists across the dangerous profession. Both men died after being pulled under river ice during cold-water rescue training.
A powerful gas pipeline explosion demolished part of the trans-Siberian railway on June 4, 1989, engulfing two passenger trains in flames and leaving hundreds dead. Many of the victims were children bound for holiday camps by the Black Sea.
According to a recent study, incremental alarms help prevent firefighter heart rates from reaching extreme highs. And that could help curb a leading cause of firefighter deaths.
Fire Safety experts arrived in Ahousaht to spend two days working with senior Maaqtusiis Secondary students and interested community members on home fire safety and firefighting training.
A small fire shut down a generating tower at the world’s largest solar power plant. Firefighters had to climb some 300 feet up a boiler tower after fire was reported on an upper level.
An arson expert based in California says firefighter arson is a recognized, ongoing problem, but it’s difficult to know exactly how common it is because authorities don’t keep records.
Yet another destructive wildfire raises questions about our failure to learn from Kelowna and Slave Lake – to take steps to guard against their fury. “This happened in Kelowna in 2003, why didn’t we all learn from that?”
At least 20 Fort McMurray firefighters – even as they helped save the homes of countless others from a wildfire that raged through their northern Alberta city – had their own hearts broken as their homes burned to the ground. The Toronto Star talked to ten of them.
In 2004, in Haines Junction, Yukon, the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) identified the need for a new, strategic approach to wildland fire management, based on a risk-management framework. In 2005, at the CCFM meeting in Saskatoon, the ministers signed the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy.
When you’re fighting fires, you want as many weapons as possible at your disposal. Now, augmented reality glasses are helping firefighters navigate extreme working conditions.