Thanks to a new AI-based system, however, firefighters may soon receive warnings when flashover is imminent. Typically, flashovers occur when a structure fire causes the temperature in an enclosed ...

Danger zone: NIST firefighters douse flames bursting from a building as a flashover occurs during an experiment. (Courtesy: NIST) New machine learning algorithms could soon help firefighters forecast ...

DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Smoke filled the air in a local community throughout this weekend. While something was burning, it was all part of a training exercise. The large ...

Pittsburgh, PA, OCTOBER 13, 2011 – Dräger announces that it will hold a free webinar titled, “Understanding Flashovers” to educate firefighters on the dangers associated with the flashover phenomenon.

It is the phenomenon every firefighter worries about. Flashovers happen when hot smoke fills a room and causes everything to suddenly combust. If someone is caught in it, with or without protective ...

Manitoba Hydro's Jeffrey Laninga shares his utility's experience studying flashovers on HVDC lines in the March 2022 podcast. Lineworkers constructed high voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to ...

Ten firefighters were lying on their backs on the floor of a simulated house when a fire broke out Sunday morning at the Nebraska State Fire School at Grand Island’s Fonner Park. A metal can full of ...

LAHORE: A preliminary investigation into the recent tripping-based major power breakdowns in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan suggests the ‘flashovers’ occurred on lines due to reduced insulation levels ...

Bird excrement appears to be a big factor in contaminating insulators – creating many flashovers and outages. The Electric Power Research Institute has been looking into ways to better monitor ...