The best heated blankets will keep you warm amid chilly temps, however when used improperly, can cause fires. I spoke with ...

A fire blanket is one of the most useful pieces of safety equipment in your home. It opens quickly and can be used to put out a small fire in a hurry or even to cover yourself if you have to walk ...

The Willoughby Hills Fire Rescue team, alongside Gates Mills Fire Department and Midwest Rescue Products, Inc. of Chardon, recently hosted a testing, training and demonstration of new fire blankets.

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As much as there is no party without music, there is no fire without oxygen. Water, foam, powder, and other fire fighting methods focus precisely on separating this gas from any heat source. Anyway, ...

Wrapping a building in a fire-protective blanket is a viable way of protecting it against wildfires, finds the first study to scientifically assess this method of defense. Rigorous testing reveals ...

It seems like a simple enough solution: Why not just wrap houses in fire blankets during a wildfire? A new study that was just published in Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering is apparently the first ...

THAT’S ALL. AS MORE ELECTRIC VEHICLES HIT THE ROAD, FIREFIGHTERS ARE PREPARING FOR FIRES THAT BURN LONGER AND HOTTER WHILE FIRES ARE RARE, THE BATTERIES INSIDE MEAN A TOUGHER FIRE FIGHT. A NEW TOOL ...

From cellphones and laptops to scooters and electric cars, lithium-ion batteries are everywhere."In New York City, this year alone, we've had over 200 fires involving them and more than a dozen ...

As Chemistry 101 reminds us, fire needs three elements to survive: a source of heat, a source of fuel and a supply of oxygen. Unfortunately, the average household contains all of these elements in ...