Flashover training offers firefighters the opportunity to observe fire behavior and the signs that lead to a flashover. Training will be conducted in a Phase 1 training container from Swede Survival ...

Flashover training is essential for firefighters. Although this type of training used to be rare, it has become more and more commonplace as the cost of the flashover prop has dropped and departments ...

Firefighters routinely run into the flames. If they are inside when a flashover occurs, they will die. To avoid injuries or casualties, about 100 Livingston County firefighters and a few from South ...

MCALESTER ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT, Okla. -- Thick black smoke slowly descended, filling the small room, engulfing the eight firefighters here in a noxious cloud. As the heat built to nearly 1,000 ...

JACKSON, MI - The temperature rose to about 1,100 degrees in a dark, enclosed compartment. Even in breathing masks and special turnout gear, firefighters exposed to such heat could survive for only ...

Flashover is a well-known dangerous phenomenon to those in fire service. But few have experienced it. "Flashover is virtually unsurvivable by a firefighter," said Tim Tyler, firefighter/EMT for ...

Oct. 17—NEOSHO, Mo. — A piece of equipment used to simulate a critical hazard in a structure fire could soon benefit both Neosho and Joplin firefighters. Pending final approval from the Neosho City ...

FAIRHOPE, Ala. -- Volunteer firefighters passed through flaming rooms as they doused walls, ceilings and a fire-engulfed stove with their water hoses. Then the tired, sweating men and women got in ...

The new recruits sat along the edges inside a shipping container, watching flames build around and above them as the temperature in the container soared to 1,000 degrees. An enclosed space, ...

DAYTONA BEACH — With a small torch, Scott Hardin lighted what he hoped would soon become one of the most dangerous fires a firefighter can face: a flashover or backdraft. The metal trailer in which he ...

Altoona City Fire Captain Cam Sunderland takes his turn with the hose inside the Pennsylvania Fire Academy Flashover Simulator set up for a training session at the Jaffa Shrine on Friday morning. The ...