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...

Lacey Paquin trained in medicine before joining Chevron. Her career path is pointing that direction again.

Phillips 66 used their corporate fire school as an opportunity to test a new electronic accountability system designed to track emergency responders taking...

Baker Fabrication's new system makes retrieving 12-inch hose a 1-person job.

Kinder Morgan's most recent fire training, conducted in April at the Refinery Terminal Fire Company training field in Corpus Christi, TX, is specifically...

At Chevron, best practices with regard to fire protection is the responsibility of the corporate fire school staff, said Ricky Conerly, fire chief at...

Team IRIS firefighters often apply their talents to emergencies in foreign locales such as Kuwait and Angola. On March 20, the Intercontinental Terminals...

Rumors regarding the retirement of Dwight Williams, one of the leading figures in large-volume flammable liquid storage firefighting, have been greatly...

In the last year, US Fire Pump has extended its firefighting interests from manufacturing large-volume pumps and monitors to responding to industrial...

Johnson Controls' Williams Fire & Hazard Control team has adapted the curriculum for this year’s Xtreme Industrial Fire & Hazard Response Training to “cut...

The Beaumont, Texas, summer school will offer training in interior and exterior firefighting, rescue, leadership and other topics important to emergency...

Dwight Williams joined with US Fire Pump and Auxquimia firefighting products of Spain in 2018 to introduce the new Signature Series 1% X 3% alcohol...

Foam partners test fluorine and non-fluorine foams at Beaumont fire school.

Fluorine foams remain indispensable to industrial firefighting, expert says.

Jan Waals is the director of the 315-member Joint Fire Brigade, an organization that provides firefighting and other assistance for the Port of Rotterdam,...

Former President George H.W. Bush's funeral procession was a tragedy for the nation and played havoc with the planned schedule for the winter Hellfighter U...

For Timothy Raycob, director of compliance for medical surveillance at Phillips 66, much of the job means closely monitoring personnel for exposure to...

Williams Fire & Hazard Control legendary industrial fire event returns to Brayton Fire Field.

Industrial Fire World magazine honored Superior, WI Fire Chief Steve Panger with its 2018 Red Adair Award in August in recognition of his department’s...

Seven hundred and thirteen industrial emergency response brigades members and safety officers from some of the world’s largest energy and chemical companies...

At Valero Energy’s 195,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Memphis, Tennessee, training with live fire is the norm, not the exception.

Rather than race to the scene, Superior, Wisconsin, Fire Chief Steve Panger went straight to fire department headquarters when an April 26 refinery...

Despite being given up for dead by its previous lessee, the Beaumont Fire/Rescue Training Center is on track to reopen in late July, nearly a year since...

In Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish, responsibility for emergency response is divided between two men named Thomas Stone.

Industrial firefighter Cory Campbell says he wishes he had a good story about how he lost his left hand in the line of duty. The truth is he was missing...

Pablo Martin Fritz Oliver and two other responders from the Buenos Aires ERT attended the Shell corporate fire school at Brayton Fire Training Field in April.

An hour before dawn nearly 80 Chevron responders took up positions on three live-fire projects at the southeast end of the fire field – the chemical...

Vanessa Aguayo and Antoya Ellis ordinarily address the hottest of the hot button issues that besiege industrial fire protection using cold equations and...

Firefighters with Cornerstone Chemicals tackle live-fire prop at Maritime and Industrial Training Center.

LyondellBasell responders use new aerial in Brayton Fire Training Field scenario.

Refineries were an essential part of life where Shell process operator and emergency responder Victoria Reneau grew up.