Fire, Volume 8, Issue 6

This study examines the emissions generated by a tall ship of 81.36 m length under various operating conditions, focusing particularly on carbon dioxide emissions at different navigation speeds. The main purpose of the paper is to establish theoretic...

With increasing wildfire impacts on communities in high-latitude areas, a call for community involvement in wildfire risk reduction has been widely promoted. Correspondingly, a ‘community-based’ approach has been advocated in research und...

Fire doors are installed between compartments to prevent the spread of fire. During a fire, the temperature difference between the exposed and unexposed surfaces induces bending deformation of the door, thereby reducing its fire resistance performanc...

Forest fires are a global environmental threat to human life and ecosystems. This study compiles smoke alarm images from five high-definition surveillance cameras in Foshan City, Guangdong, China, collected over one year, to create a smoke-based earl...

This study establishes a transient numerical model for the gas–solid two-phase flow of ultrafine dry powder fire extinguishing agents released in the confined space based on the Fluent software platform. The model investigates the spatial flow...

Increasing wildfire activities across the Great Plains has raised concerns about the effectiveness and safety of prescribed fire as a land management tool. This study analyzes wildfire records from 1992 to 2020 to assess spatiotemporal patterns in wi...

Sudden coal and gas outbursts pose a significant hazard in deep-seated coal seam extraction, necessitating reliable risk assessment methods. Traditionally, assessments focus on gas-dynamic parameters, but experience shows they must be supplemented wi...

Post-earthquake fires (PEFs) represent a complex, cascading hazard in which seismic damage creates ignition conditions that can overwhelm urban infrastructure and severely compromise structural integrity. Despite growing scholarly attention, the lite...

The increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires in hard-to-reach and hazardous areas represents a significant challenge for traditional firefighting methods. Wildfires pose a growing threat to the environment, property, and human lives. In many c...

In this paper, a study on the working characteristics of microwave-assisted spark plug igniter was carried out. Experiments were carried out in a vacuum chamber to investigate the effects of microwave feeding with different parameters on the spark pl...

Fire refugia are unburned and low severity patches within wildfires that contribute heterogeneity that is important to retaining biodiversity and regenerating forest following fire. With increasingly intense and frequent wildfires in the Pacific Nort...

Due to the complex structure of high-rise space buildings, traditional point fire detectors are not effective in terms of detection range and installation difficulty. Although linear beam smoke detectors are widely adopted, they still face problems s...

The growing complexity and risk profile of fire and emergency incidents necessitate advanced training methodologies that go beyond traditional approaches. Live-fire drills and classroom-based instruction, while foundational, often fall short in provi...

Recent catastrophic bridge fire incidents have highlighted the critical need for effective post-fire assessment of bridges, thereby challenging the dominant practice of complete replacement following these destructive events. This study investigates...

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have come to hold ever greater significance across diverse fields. However, thermal runaway and associated fire incidents have undeniably constrained the application and development of LIBs. Consequently, gaining a profou...

The quantity, quality, and accumulation rate of plant litter play a key role in forest floor flammability and, by extension, fire regimes. The varying foliage properties of different tree species also determine litter’s decomposition and its ac...

Small bookstores constructed before the 1970s have a high fire risk in the context of the revitalization of historical buildings; while the setup of simple sprinklers is an effective and cheap method of extinguishing fires, the parameters of the spri...

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used as energy storage units in electric vehicles, mobile phones, and other electric devices due to their high voltage, large capacity, and long cycle life. Lithium-ion batteries are prone to thermal runway (TR...

Channel fire poses a great threat to personnel safety and structural strength, in which the temperature profile is worthy of attention. In this paper, the longitudinal temperature profile of a ceiling jet induced by a wall-attached fire with differen...

Fire-driven land cover change has generated a paradox: while habitat fragmentation from agriculture, livestock, and urban expansion has reduced natural fire occurrences, human-induced ignitions have increased wildfire frequency and intensity. In nort...

Volunteer firefighters play an important role in the provision of emergency services in Slovenia, where most of firefighters work on a voluntary basis. In many countries, however, volunteering is in decline due to demographic, social and organisation...

This paper investigates the dual effects of slope variation and flame interaction on counter-directional flame propagation through numerical simulations of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) plates. Critical flame propagation parameters, including flame m...

Here, a pure and systematic numerical study is conducted to investigate the detonation propagation in a curvature bend by focusing on the combined effect of curvature and cross-section area with a simple two-step chemical reaction model. In a channel...

This study presents a novel water mist fire fighting system that integrates water mist sprays and water mist curtains, designed to achieve simultaneous fire suppression, thermal insulation, and smoke control. Three full-scale experiments were conduct...

Wildfires pose significant threats to ecosystems, human lives, and property worldwide. Understanding the behavior of fire spread on sloped terrain is essential for developing effective firefighting strategies and improving fire prediction models. Pre...

A series of fire experiments were conducted in a 0.5 m × 0.5 m × 0.5 m room, and a single door-like opening was adopted. The height of the openings was 20 cm, and the width of the openings varied from 10 cm to 30 cm, with ventilation fact...

This paper introduces a novel algorithm—YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once version 8) + FRMHead (a multi-branch feature refinement head) + Slimneck (a lightweight bottleneck module), abbreviated as YFSNet—for lithium-ion battery fire and smoke de...

To investigate the fire prevention and suppression characteristics of coal gangue slurry grouting in goafs and the enhanced regulatory mechanisms of additives, the slurry-forming performance of coal gangue slurry was tested. The effects of heating te...

Wildfires in central-south Chile, consistent with trends observed in other Mediterranean regions, are expected to become more frequent and severe, threatening ecosystems and impacting millions of people. This study aims to enhance wildfire resilience...

Fire detection remains a challenging task due to varying fire scales, occlusions, and complex environmental conditions. This paper proposes the CN2VF-Net model, a novel hybrid architecture that combines vision Transformers (ViTs) and convolutional ne...

Architectural design seeks to address many challenges, one of which is creating buildings that can quickly and safely evacuate people. Therefore, it is even more important to pay attention to the safety of personnel evacuation. Past disasters have sh...

In recent years, new fire loads dominated by power banks have caused multiple fire incidents in transportation hubs, posing severe challenges to fire safety. This study uses experimental testing and machine learning regression analysis to explore the...

At 2:54 A.M. on 14 October 2021, a devastating fire erupted in a high-rise building in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, involving 12 floors above ground and a basement level, resulting in 46 fatalities and 41 injuries. The official investigation pinpointed re...

Firefighters experience high noise levels from various sources, such as sirens, alarms, pumps, and emergency vehicles. Unlike industrial workers who experience continuous noise exposure, firefighters are subject to intermittent high-intensity noise,...