For the first time this March, the cadets enrolled in the fire science technology program at Lone Star College-Montgomery won’t have to pack up all their gear and drive to Houston for an important ...

Lone Star College-Montgomery is getting fired up over its firefighter-training program. The college's state-of-the-art training facility at The Woodlands Emergency Training Center recently acquired a ...

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 ...

Tulsa's future firefighters got a first-hand look at how quickly a fire can spread Tuesday. It's called a flashover and it's something you might have seen in the movies but rarely see for yourself. It ...

The thermometer near the roof of Richmond Fire Department's new flashover chamber rose to 1,000 degrees. Inside, Chicago firefighters representing American Fire Training Systems taught Richmond ...

RICHMOND, Ind. — A fire that reaches 2,000 degrees awaits, and 85 pounds of equipment provides protection. Seven city employees and elected officials faced just that scenario during Richmond Fire ...

Hundreds of firefighters from around the country are in Tulsa for additional training on saving lives. Volunteers and full-time firefighters from 8 different states attended Friday’s state fire school ...

According to local fire officials, the most notable instance of “flashover” during a structure fire was the tragic 1989 flashover in Oklahoma City that killed three fire fighters. “A flashover fire ...

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 ...

At the Terre Haute Fire Department Training Center, Mayor Brandon Sakbun on Saturday was employing a bulky firefighting tool called a cutter to slice the driver’s door off of an SUV to rescue a dummy ...