Fire Protection: Recommended Websites, Videos, Books

Fire on the Web is a collection of resources from the Building and Fire Research Laboratory's Fire Research Division at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). These Web pages provide links to fire related software, experimental fire data and mpeg/quick time movies of fire tests that can be downloaded and/or viewed with a Web browser.

A clearinghouse for new techniques, technologies, and ideas in wildland firefighting.

This page contains statistics on fires that occur in the United States and analytical and topical reports on fires in the United States. Also included are statistics related to firefighters and fire departments. The U.S. Fire Administration is part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

An information resource center to the Building and Fire Research Lab staff, fire protection engineers, scientists, and fire service personnel around the world.

Streaming (brief). A report from NIST is the first to quantify the effects of crew sizes and arrival times on the fire service's lifesaving and firefighting operations for residential fires.

Streaming. A six part documentary following fire fighters in France in 2016

Streaming. 18 episode series following urban fire fighters in Britain.

2007, DVD. The basics of reading smoke; hostile fire events and warning signs; and the process of "reading smoke."

2002, DVD. Documentary on the New York firefighters responding to the attack on the World Trade Center.