The following summarizes our written fire drill procedures for High-rise buildings, which are defined by the 2009 International Fire Code (IFC) as buildings or structures having occupied floors ...

Because of the difficulties associated with fighting a fire in a high rise apartment – other assets and additional support had to be called in to help extinguish this blaze. Residents can be seen ...

The BMC is planning to introduce a Compressed Air Foam System (CAFS) to enhance firefighting efficiency in the high-rise ...

In all, people who lived in more than 140 units were displaced. More than two years later, 80 units still were not fixed — ...

Deruyter said new mid-rise and high-rise buildings are being constructed throughout the city, and fighting high-rise fires ... “The higher the fire is in the building, the longer it will take ...

The city said the addition of Squad 1, a high-rise fire unit, established in 2022, which is trained in fighting fires in tall buildings and comes with specialized equipment, was key to the ...

Since the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in London a month ago, unit owners have been working to update fire safety measures. -- The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Even before a Honolulu high-rise ...

SOUTH STRABANE, Pa. (KDKA) — A resident is dead and another is in the hospital after a fire at a senior high-rise in Washington County on Wednesday. Firefighters say they got word of a fire at ...

A fire at a Downtown Jersey City high-rise building early Thursday morning was quickly contained, so efficiently that residents never had to leave their apartments, authorities said. Jersey City ...

Dozens of residents of a South Side high rise remain displaced more than two years after fire damaged 140 units, and there are concerns the building won’t be protected from future fires.