The deadly Swiss bar fire may have spread quickly, hiking temperatures up to 1,000 degrees in a matter of seconds.

The New Year’s Day inferno that ripped through a crowded bar in southern Switzerland, killing at least 40 people and injuring 119, spread so rapidly because of what is known as a flashover, local ...

Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a ...

A flashover was involved in the 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people, a disaster that Mr. Kerber said ...

Flashover fires—such as the one that struck the Constellation bar in Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve—are well known to ...

Follow for live updates on a ski resort bar fire that killed at least 40 people during a New Year’s party in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Flashover is a well-known dangerous phenomenon to those in fire service. But few have experienced it. "Flashover is virtually unsurvivable by a firefighter," said Tim Tyler, firefighter/EMT for ...

Asheville firefighters had close calls at a house fire Monday. AFD Fire Chief Scott Burnette told WLOS three firefighters who lost the hose line were trapped in the room by the flashover. They bailed ...

If you're an engineer developing a device to predict a flashover, you've got to know if the device is going to work in deadly conditions. Last week, engineers and graduate students at Worcester ...

In my first article on this topic, “The Art of “Reading Fire,” I discussed a new mnemonic for fire behavior indicators, B-SAHF, which stands for Smoke, Air, Heat and Flame, all in the context of ...