The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and standards have ...

Fire safety in buildings has been paid more and more attention. The exact prediction of fire or smoke spread plays a crucial role in building design, ...

Professor of structural and fire engineering, and head of Fire Engineering Research at Stellenbosch University, Professor Richard Walls, who attended nonCrete’s entire Ignis fire test says ...

A professor at RIT is collaborating with a fellow researcher to design a firearm that could lock if the user’s blood alcohol content level is deemed unsafe.

Sanders has been named Rochester Institute of Technology’s 11th president. The current dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering was introduced to the RIT community on Jan. 28. The ...

William H. Sanders took the stage inside Gordon Field House on Rochester Institute of Technology’s Henrietta campus to a ...

and Nancy W. Strecker Dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. RIT has taken a unique approach on its path to excellence, working at the intersection of ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn Thursday morning, but locals and first responders had some reason for optimism despite ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...