Avoiding fires at Christmas
Each year, fire departments respond to an average of 210 structure fires caused by Christmas trees. Carefully decorating Christmas trees ca…
Each year, fire departments respond to an average of 210 structure fires caused by Christmas trees. Carefully decorating Christmas trees ca…
mercor tecresa® participates in the program as expert in passive fire protection and smoke exhaust systems for buildings.
The National Uni…
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 time-temperature curves are mathematical formules that regulate the temperature in a test furnace as a function of time. Its function is …
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…
We have already talked in another post about the sealing of cable installations how to correctly seal the passage of a cable tray when passing fr…
The Tabakalera building was a tobacco factory in San Sebastián for 90 years (1913-2003). It was a state factory, built on a municipal land, afte…
The installation of fire protection systems in museums is very complicated and it must be accurated due to the highly sensitive contents it ha…
Fire in Guatemala. Up to 40 people are already dead because of the fire occurred last Wednesday in a Center of teenagers victims of family mistr…
A fire is considered as a fortuitous event. When a person decides to buy a home or set up a business, his biggest concerns are those related to the d…
The priority of a Smoke Evacuation and Temperature Control System in case fire is always to save lives, leaving the evacuation routes free of s…
Chief Black of Anderson County (SC) Fire Department was on duty at the fire station when a call came in to inform him that his house was on fire. His …
The first data collected through firefighters, insurers and fire news in 2016, say that there were about 125,000 interventions from firefig…
In both building and industry, we often find linear gaps between different parameters of different length, width and depth. These joints come
he opening of the largest outlet mall in Spain has meant the remodeling of the old one called “Avenida M-40” and an investment clos…
Today we want to share a video that explains how a fire in an apartment and the smoke coming from it spreads throughout the building. They also ex…
We don’t see it, often it is not usually in plain sight because it does not make any sound or alarm, it can not even help to extinguish the fire. But i…
The aerospace grouping and the CIMA group of the University of Vigo are developing a new satellite that will detect fires autonomously. This is …
The Tecbor Firewall Board is a rigid panel for fire protection composed by Magnesium Oxide, Silicates and other additives finished on both si…
Five children have now been confirmed dead following an early Saturday morning house fire in Spearfish. Those children, ages 6 to 9 years old we…
Flames have engulfed the roof of the world-famous Bellagio Hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Footage taken by onlookers shows the fire on the roof …
The Holy Week in Spain is the annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods and fraternitie…
We already know the thermal insulation and fireproof properties of Tecwool mortar but today we are going to tell you about an extra property. T…
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