Nearly a year after the explosion that killed Sun Prairie Fire Capt. Cory Barr, investigators are still trying to piece this together what happened. In a 90-page document, the Wisconsin Department of ...

The dust explosion pentagon is a well-known model for understanding the factors that contribute to dust fire, flash fire, and explosion incidents. Among its elements, the control of ignition sources – ...

As wildfires across the U.S. become more destructive and frequent, utility infrastructure is under increasing scrutiny. In many recent cases, aging poles and power lines have been identified as ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Edward Harrell didn’t know it when he recorded it, but a video he shot with his cell phone the day the Marshall Fire exploded contains evidence of a potential source of the ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has been unable to determine the ignition source that sparked the explosion in a Silver Spring apartment complex meter room, where natural gas had been ...