Annual event brings together professionals and students specializing in emergency rescue

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

The program conducts live training for chiefs and prospective chiefs.

The monthly newsletter will include after-action reporting, training opportunities, product information, and updates about events, including the return of...

Instructors in the field of industrial firefighting are invited to submit their ideas for a presentation to an elite audience of emergency responders at the...

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

Industrial Fire World has transitioned to new ownership, but the mission remains the same. Industrial emergency response is a highly specialized portion of...

Industrial Fire World publisher David White was among six new members of the National Fire Heritage Center’s Hall of Legends, Legacies and Leaders to be...

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.

After 23 years of dedicated service, Chauncey Naylor has retired from the Williams Fire & Hazard Control business of Johnson Controls.

Industrial Fire World magazine honored Chris Ferrara, owner of US Fire Pump, with its 2019 Red Adair Award in recognition of his accomplishments in...

In this column, I will address specific types of fire extinguishers and extinguishing agents, touch on various methods of applying extinguishing agents, and...

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

Texas A&M Engineering Extension Services' Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station played host to the 71st annual IRECA conference and challenge held...

Why would you need at 350-pound dry chemical wheel unit at a storage tank fire? Dwight Williams, founder of Williams Fire & Hazard Control, referred to his...

As technological advancements have emerged to make our fire world safer and lower risk to manage emergency incidents, it’s easy to numb our human senses...

Pioneering oil well firefighter Asger “Boots” Hansen, Jr. passed quietly at his home in Fort Myers, Florida on June 16, 2019 at age 93, according to an...

Over the past years, the International Rescue & Emergency Care Association partnered with the Fires Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the promotion,...

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...

With Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service’s (TEEX) Brayton Fire Training Field and Disaster City as its location, the conference is expanding the number...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Hearing the words, “You have cancer,” once in your life is terrible enough. Robert Taylor, captain with the Chevron El Segundo ERT, has heard it twice in...

Joseph H. Gross, 99, owner of The Roberts Company mail order catalog and longtime supporter of Industrial Fire World died March 31 having just entered...

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.

Leland Paniza attended a live-fire training project at Brayton Fire Training Field.

The Beaumont Emergency Safety Training complex, a 70-acre Texas facility founded in 1966 that ranked as one of the country’s foremost industrial fire...

It’s hard to believe that any facility as akin to fire and fury as the Beaumont Emergency Safety Training complex could fade away more gently.

The FDNY and the USFS had worked extensively together during operations following the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center, with the USFS assisting...

Industrial Fire World surveyed schools offering such training to give readers a better idea of what is available worldwide.

TEEX industrial fire school helps keep Texas summer hot.

Two of the biggest names in industrial firefighting – Dwight Williams and Chris Ferrara -- drew a standing room only crowd for a special dinner and ceremony...

The 69th Annual International Rescue & Emergency Care Association Conference and Challenges was held this past June in Champaign, Illinois in conjunction...

College Station, Texas, is now one of three annual international stops made by the Williams Fire & Hazard Control Xtreme Industrial Fire & Hazard Training...

Michael F. Marchan prefers a tropical climate. He grew up on St. Croix in the Virgin Islands and spent 18 years in operations at the Hovensa refinery there...

Bringing emergency responders together for an annual corporate fire school is not enough for Chevron. In conjunction with the company’s April fire school,...

On average, Chevron brings about 200 participants through Brayton every year with corporate fire schools scheduled for March, April, and May.