The Los Angeles fire disaster and the many fires we regularly experience in South Africa are a powerful reminder of the need for fire-resistant building materials and methods across the housing ...

Protecting individual houses is not enough. We need to rethink how we design entire neighborhoods and communities. When a ...

A sophisticated approach to fire and explosion safety requires one that expands conventional protection strategies to comprehensively consider storage, containment and tool compatibility ...

Fire officials are urging residents to make a disaster action plan. As thousands of firefighters battled a series of raging wildfires across Los Angeles County, California officials warned the ...

The Eaton and Palisades fires are the first and second-most destructive in Southern California history. “The Palisades fire alone is the size of Manhattan; just imagine the debris,” McIlreavy ...

including planting fire-resistant vegetation and keeping any other trees and shrubs trimmed and away from houses. But housing demand is so high in cities like Los Angeles that developers often end ...

Photo: Facebook Working on Fire has dismissed claims circulating on social media that South African firefighters were recently sent to assist with the fires in Los Angeles. According to Lowvelder ...

Owners cleared brush away from their stucco house that has a fire-resistant roof and multi-pane windows that blocked the flames. This house in Paradise was the first home to receive the Wildfire ...

Amid the ruin of charred homes and blackened hillsides left devastated by the Palisades Fire, stands a home that held out against the flames and smoke that blanketed northwest LA last week.

Karina Maher and Michael Kovac, an architect, built their Los Angeles home with fire-resistant and sustainable features. When the Palisades fire broke out, their house remained intact while others ...

LET’S CONTINUE OUR WILDFIRE COVERAGE. IT’S BEEN A WEEK NOW SINCE MAJOR FIRES SPARKED ACROSS LOS ANGELES COUNTY, AND SINCE THEN, THE PALISADES FIRE AND THE EATON FIRE HAVE BURNED A COMBINED ...