Bringing together process, utility piping is a convenience at most plants and refineries. But in a fire it can quickly lead to danger.

Immediate access to trained professionals makes for-profit fire response appealing.

The 10-acre training field comes complete with a combination multiple-story burn building and high angle rope rescue prop, a four-level simulated process...

English and French firefighters join forces to extinguish flames under worst conditions possible.

Passive fire protection has to be more than fireproof. It also has to be people-proof.

On July 6, 2013, a runaway freight train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.

Hazmat experts pressed into service for body recovery

Sharing the hard-won wisdom

Workers returned to their jobs less than 90 minutes after the first warning

Nobody on the Brayton Fire Training Field during the annual Industrial Fire School in July knows the pipe alley project better than retired Exxon...

Wisconsin state legislators voted Tuesday to tighten restrictions on the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, referred to by some as "forever...

A 64-foot-tall industrial autoclave that separated under 90 pounds per square inch pressure is being blamed for a massive nitrogen release on Dec. 27 in...

Dangerous chemical reactions led to explosions that killed three people in two separate incidents at a West Virginia facility for decontaminating obsolete...

ExxonMobil must comply with a subpoena issued by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board demanding information about containing hydrofluoric acid on the site of a...

A report released by the Harris County Fire Marshal's office isolates the cause of the March 2019 terminal fire in Deer Park, Texas, as a mechanical failure...

No fatalities and relatively few injuries were the chief blessings for which residents gave thanks after several massive explosions and more than five days...

Three years and nine months after an April 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, killed 15 people, all but three of them...

Federal investigators believe a rupture pipe elbow was at fault in a June 2019 explosion and fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in...

"Angels' share" refers to the portion of a distilled spirit lost to evaporation during aging. On July 2, 2019 in Woodford County, Kentucky somebody else...

Protecting the tank farm at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport falls under the jurisdiction of the Kenner Fire Department. To help with...