Firefighting

Every year around 10 million acres of the U.S. is seared by wildfires. The country spends more than $2 billion…

It doesn’t take long for a grass fire to turn into a raging inferno that sweeps through entire forests, so a pair…

Among the many dangers firefighters face at work each day, those high-powered water hoses have enough pressure to…

Even if your home survives a fire, there’s a good chance you’ll be dealing with quite a bit of water damage after…

Fighting a fire in a towering skyscraper poses unique challenges for both the equipment and the firefighters. That’s…

The world has already seen a drone that shoots paintballs and a drone that shoots bullets. Now, thanks to a research…

No image says summer more than a cracked-open fire hydrant spewing city water into a New York street. Although not…

Last week firefighting crews couldn’t do their job because five amateur drones were circling the area. And this…

The faster you can pour water on a forest fire, the faster you can put it out. And this prototype aerial…

As the post-conflict cleanup from the first Iraq War demonstrated, oil well fires are nearly impossible to put out wi…

When firefighters have to enter a burning building, much of their job still involves blindly feeling their way…

The five-alarm fire that destroyed a San Francisco apartment building this week put the city's municipal water…

It makes perfect sense. Burning buildings are very dangerous places for people to enter, so when there's a fire that…

Need to put out a forest fire? Why not bomb it with chemical-filled missiles? At least that was the plan in 1961.

As of this morning, the Rim Fire burning through Yosemite National Park has scorched 237,341 acres—roughly 370…

When we look at visions of the future from the 20th century we often imagine the lone inventor or solitary artist…

"The tallest building in the world is on fire. You are there with 294 other guests. There's no way down. There's no…

Traditional fire fighting techniques have relied on dousing flames with water or chemicals. But in an effort to…

Add another eerily lifelike robot to the military's rapidly expanding android army. This one is, of all things, a…