Fire, Volume 8, Issue 3

Some of the most catastrophic fire events that have occurred in the western US in recent decades, such as the 2018 Camp Fire in California, were ignited by electric utility infrastructure. As wildfires and fire seasons intensify across the western Un...

For computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling of advanced combustion engines, the cylinder is usually considered a closed system in which the initial conditions are estimated based on the experimental data. Most of these approximations hinder observ...

The effect of a surface coating with an aqueous solution containing a synthetic diammonium hydrogen phosphate fire retardant and vacuum pressure impregnation with a synthetic diammonium hydrogen phosphate fire retardant, potassium acetate, and a natu...

To investigate the propagation of explosion shock waves within a ship’s engine room, a two-story engine room of a cargo ship was selected as the research object. The BlastFOAM solver in OpenFOAM-9 software was utilized to conduct numerical simu...

This study aimed to shorten firefighter search times during indoor fires, allowing more people to be rescued, by enhancing disaster-prevention capabilities using building technologies. In indoor fires, fatalities are often caused by the failure of fi...

Wildfires pose severe threats to terrestrial ecosystems by causing loss of biodiversity, altering landscapes, compromising ecosystem services, and endangering human lives and infrastructure. Chile, with its diverse geography and climate, faces escala...

Firefighters are vulnerable to opioid misuse given the adverse effects their occupation has on mental and physical health. Yet there are limited data on opioid misuse within this population. This study examined the prevalence of illicit prescription...

This study investigates the effectiveness of immersive audiovisual simulations in eliciting emotional responses and replicating the psychological and cognitive demands of high-risk operational environments, particularly in firefighting scenarios. Con...

Underground interconnected tunnels typically have a large curvature and multiple branching structures, which pose a higher fire risk than traditional single-tube tunnels. In this paper, experiments were performed on a reduced-scale tunnel to study th...

Wildfire activity in the western U.S. has highlighted the importance of effective management to address this growing threat. The Lookout Mountain Thinning and Fuels Reduction Study (LMS) is an operational-scale, long-term study of the effects of fore...