90 injured in a kitchen explosion
Up to 90 people were injured, 4 of them seriously, after a gas explosion in the kitchen of a cafe in the center of Velez-Malaga. One of the cookers n…
Up to 90 people were injured, 4 of them seriously, after a gas explosion in the kitchen of a cafe in the center of Velez-Malaga. One of the cookers n…
Firefighters controlled a fire last night at the province of Sevilla The fire affected the company Recilec in Aznalcollar. The fire occurred b…
For a long time, the illegal fire safety practices has been reported in various professional forums. Also the lack of inspection to detect thes…
At least one person was killed and six were seriously injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in Germany on Monday. Police said there was no in…
The standard UNE 23740-1: 2016 Fire Safety. Hollow enclosure elements. Specific requirements for installation, use and maintenance. Part 1…
On 10 April 1981, the Fire Safety regulation in Spain started to change because the Ministry of Housing approved the Basic Fire Protection …
The National Fire Protection Association estimates that 60 people die in high-rise fires each year just in the USA. Another thousand peop…
A 12 year old girl died last weekend in a fire in Zaragoza. The girl had gone to the Aragonese capital to spend the weekend with his family and atten…
We recently know about a girl who died at home after a fire which started in the heater. When it’s cold and temperatures drop, the number o…
Smoke and heat exhaust ventilation systems are natural or powered systems to remove smoke from a building allowing low level escape routes to b…
The Fire and Home Risk Prevention Week is a program designed to raise awareness among citizens, especially children and the elderly, to learn …
When the winter arrives, the number of fires in homes increases. It is a drama and a frustration that it happens in a society with a high level of l…
A common solution for fire protection of metal structures is to coat the metal element using a Fire Panel such as our Tecbor Panel.
The Tecbor is …
Fire detection and extinguishing systems in homes, offices or industries have hardly changed in recent decades, contrary to what happened in …
Vacations and business travel make hotels and motels our home away from home. It is just as important to be prepared and know what you would do …
They are composed of textile fiber which is impermeable to smoke and gases and at the same time resistant to high temperatures
According to thei…
A man aged 59 has the 90% of the body burned after a fire at his home in Colmenar de Oreja (Spain) last weekend. The man continues injured in the unit …
Today we want to talk about the non-bearing False Ceilings. These kind of solutions are usually used to provide an existing roof, which has an u…
At least 24 people have been killed by a voracious fire that erupted at a nightclublocated in a two-story building in Oakland, California. Abo…
Each year, fire departments respond to an average of 210 structure fires caused by Christmas trees. Carefully decorating Christmas trees ca…
According to the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA), patients within health care facilities are presumed to be incapable of self-prese…
A fire has been reported at the NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, the Fire Department of New York said on Wednesday morning, Dec. 14. Emer…
All Christmas trees are combustible, but most of the fires that occur are due to the overload of the electric cables and shortcircuits, so we re…
Planning on hosting a New Year’s Eve party this year? What better way to ring in 2015 than with fire safety. With New Year’s festiv…
Firefighters in Japan controled last week a massive fire that engulfed some 150 buildings and injured eight people in Itoigawa in northwester…
Pyrotechnics are very common in Christmas and New Year’s Eve and they are the reason of many fires during those dates. Theycan be danger…
Mercor Tecresa has developed a product called Tecwool T composed of mineral wool based mortars with cement as only hydraulic binder and other …
This is one of the fires without big consequences but it is a very curious and uncommon cause. We know that it is usual in some countries to launch t…
Winter is the time of year when more fires happen. Victims: old people, time: dawn, space: living room and kitchens, causes: plugs in poor condi…
It is usual to find in old buildings reconstrucctions beams or wooden pillars that still maintain their carrying capacity so it is necessary to …
A fire has demolished the oldest skyscraper in Tehran (The Plasco building), killing at least 20 people. The last official report of the victim…
After the fire that caused the demolition of the oldest skyscrapper in the city of Tehran (Iran), many doubts come to us about structural fire…
This type of mixed concrete forged with profiled steel sheet began to be used in the United States in the mid-twentieth century and it is very com…
On February 15, 1941, a big fire burned part of the city of Santander that would change it forever. A fire, struck by an intense south wind, devo…
Manchester United stadium in flames. At dawn on Monday, a small fire broke out in Old Trafford forcing firefighters to intervene. The security …
One of the issues that usually arise when installing a Smoke Evacuation system (Constructive solutions) is when and how they should be opened …
18 people have died in a fire in a massage center in the Chinese province of Zheijang. The fire broke out at about 17:26 (0926 GMT) on Sunday accord…
According to the NFPA, there are between 350,000 and 400,000 house fires in the U.S. every year and this results in almost $8 billion in annual …
The fire declared last week in Indukern caused flames between 40 and 50 meters height. It began during a transfer of chemicals. The smoke colum…
An Industrial fire is a type of industrial disaster involving a conflagration which occurs in an industrial setting. As we saw in the last fire i…
The DB-SI defines Fire Resistance as: “The ability of a building element to maintain for a period of time the bearing function (R) tha…
A 64-year-old and 66-year-old couple died yesterday in the early morning due to smoke coming from a fire in their home in Castellón, according t…
The fire in a chemical industry in Paterna caused a strong alarm in the city. Remember that there were 5,000 workers evacuated from 200 companie…
The new mortar Tecwool F is a product composed mainly with Rock Wool and White Cement but it also includes other additives. This product is des…
A fire has completely burned down a 60,000 square meter shopping center located in Oderzo, northern Italy. This shopping center, with dozens …
After the serious fire that hit a mall in northern Italy, we think it’s a good time to talk about fire protection in shopping malls. There a…
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