Firefighters respond to a five-alarm fire in a row of apartment buildings in Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 6. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS) A New Year’s celebration in the Swiss Alps turned ...

Fire safety has always depended on speed, accuracy, and people who know what they’re doing under pressure. That part hasn’t ...

Older houses carry stories in their walls, but they also carry fire risks that do not match the assumptions built into modern safety codes. If you live in or manage an aging property, you cannot ...

A round-up of the key news stories, guidance documents and new thinking for those involved in building safety issues, gathered by Peter Apps.