Fire Protection: Recommended Websites, Videos, Books
Fire websites
- Fire on the WebFire 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.
- Fire Management TodayA clearinghouse for new techniques, technologies, and ideas in wildland firefighting.
- United States Fire StatisticsThis 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.
- Building and Fire Research PortalAn information resource center to the Building and Fire Research Lab staff, fire protection engineers, scientists, and fire service personnel around the world.
Recommended videos
- Firefighting study : impacts of crew sizes and arrival timesStreaming (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.
- Firefighters (series)Streaming. A six part documentary following fire fighters in France in 2016
- Facing the Fire (series)Streaming. 18 episode series following urban fire fighters in Britain.
- The Art of Reading Smoke2007, DVD. The basics of reading smoke; hostile fire events and warning signs; and the process of "reading smoke."
- 9/112002, DVD. Documentary on the New York firefighters responding to the attack on the World Trade Center.
Recommended books
- Oregon Wildland Firefighting byPublication Date: 2019-02-11
- Visual Dictionary of Firefighting Tools and Resources byPublication Date: 2006-07-11Photos and graphics accompany the terms and their definitions. Terms include tools and other resources used for incident response.