Residents said the cost of retrofitting buildings would run into the millions     PITTSBURGH (TribLive) – Pittsburgh’s fire sprinkler bill is on hold again after more than a dozen residents complained Tuesday to City Council that costs and the ...

Alarms only on specific floors sounded     DENVER (FOX 31) -As a deadly fire burned in a high-rise Denver apartment building last weekend, alarms were mostly silent. The Denver Fire Department intentionally only sounded the alarms on specific floors. ...

Testimony from survivors of fatal high-rise blaze     Sky News – Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire are giving evidence at the inquiry into the disaster. Relatives of those who died, as well as local residents, will also be ...

London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton, manager of the tragic high-rise fire   Sky News – The final week of evidence continues from London Fire Brigade. This includes firefighters who undertook active firefighting, control room staff and commanders who were ...

London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton on the tragic high-rise fire     Channel 4 News – Dany Cotton, head of the London Fire Brigade, told the Grenfell Tower Inquiry today that as soon as she arrived at the fire ...

Fire involved a 62-story building   KUWAIT CITY (AP) — A skyscraper under construction for the National Bank of Kuwait has caught fire, sending 2,500 workers fleeing from the flames. The fire broke out in Kuwait City on Thursday, sending ...

Understanding progressive collapse     Shih-Ho Chao, University of Texas Arlington (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) When buildings collapse killing hundreds – or thousands – of people, ...

Building resilience in your communication systems     (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Thomas Terndrup, The Ohio State University and Nicholas Kman, The Ohio State University (THE CONVERSATION) “The ...

Small fire on 28th floor knocked down     KAKAAKO (HawaiiNewsNow) – Honolulu firefighters quickly extinguished a small fire at a Kakaako highrise on Wednesday. The fire started about 5 p.m. in a unit on the 28th floor. It was ...

Fire in the basement of a 20-story building     TORONTO (The Star) – As many as 1,500 people had to find a place to sleep Tuesday night after a six-alarm fire blazed through a downtown highrise for at least ...