California Gov. Gavin Newsom will order state officials to advance implementation of a state rule aiming to make homes more ...

You can't actually prevent an act of nature from affecting your home, as I found out recently with the Eaton Fire in Altadena ...

Adding flame ... [+] retardants to their plastic battery enclosures may not be help. It can also lead to health harm. If you’re reading this on a smartphone or laptop, you can thank lithium-ion ...

Aluminum siding has similar fire-resistant properties (as you might expect from metal), but it also stands up well to wind, rain, and other environmental pressures. It could, however, buckle during a ...

The Los Angeles fire disaster and the many fires we regularly experience in South Africa are a powerful reminder of the need for fire-resistant building materials and methods across the housing ...

“We've got the awning up, the painting is done, it's all been installed, we've paid all the bills, and now we've come to find out that we need to have fire resistant fabric,” Arneson said.

Feb. 3, 2025 — Electrochemical reaction-based stimuli-responsive materials are shaping up the era of innovative display devices. By embedding luminescent ...

Investigators say the fire started inside the Yonkers facility where cardboard, plastic and materials are processed for recycling. No injuries were reported. A cause of the fire was not ...

I further found Amazon awash in off-brand home security safes that were listed as fireproof, but only included a fire-resistant envelope. It requires a sharp eye to parse out genuinely fireproof ...

This material is applied to German technology and a thermal process to increase the resistance of the material, so it has passed through many tests such as drop ball tests, chip tests, ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WBAY) - Fond du Lac Fire Rescue is reminding people about properly disposing of smoking materials after a porch fire on Friday. Just after 1:30 p.m. on Friday, crews responded ...