Fire and Explosion Safety Links
compiled by Fire Science and Technology Inc.
The links compiled below focus on fire science, fire research, fire investigation, and forensic engineering aspects.
Associations
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- American Fire Sprinkler Assn.
- Association for Specialist Fire Protection
- ASTM International
- British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Assn.
- BSEF (brominated fire retardants)
- California Conference of Arson Investigators
- Canadian Association of Fire Investigators
- Combustion Institute
- CTIF (European firefighter group)
- Eurofeu (European fire protection equipment makers)
- European Fire Safety Alliance
- Federation of the European Union Fire Officers Associations (FEU)
- Fire Protection Assn. (UK)
- Fire Protection Assn. Australia
- Fire Safe Europe
- Fire Suppression Systems Assn. (trade assn., non-aqueous systems)
- Forensic Science Society
- Green Science Policy Institute
- IAFSS
- IEC
- Insurance Committee for Arson Control
- Institution of Fire Engineers
- International Association of Arson Investigators
- International Association of Fire Chiefs
- International Code Council
- International Fire Service Training Assn.
- International Firestop Council (trade assn. for passive fire protection)
- International Water Mist Assn.
- ISO
- ISO TC92
- National Assn. of Fire Equipment Distributors
- National Association of Fire Investigators
- National Association of State Fire Marshals
- National Fire Sprinkler Assn.
- NFPA
- Nordtest
- SFPE
- The World Fire Safety Foundation
Bulletin Boards, Forums, Newsgroups
Consultancies, commercial entities & misc.
- ArcWear (useful info on arc-flash)
- ArupFire
- Compu-Weather
- DriFire (FR clothing)
- ED&T Engineering Design & Testing Corp.
- EFI Global
- ESI Engineering
- Exponent
- FDRsafety (combustible dusts consulting)
- Fire Cause Analysis
- Fire Safety Design
- FireDirect.net
- FireWind (Victor Shestopal)
- GBH Intl.
- HSB Professional Loss Control
- Interscience Communications Ltd.
- International Fire Consultants
- Jensen Hughes
- Munich Re
- OSHA Safety Professionals
- Phil Ackland (commercial kitchen fire investigation, inspection)
- Rimkus Consulting Group
- SEA, Ltd.
- Swiss Re Group
- T.C. Forensic
- Tyco (detection & suppression systems)
- UK P&I Club (marine insurance)
Fire service-related
- California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection
- Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre
- Firetactics (excellent educational site)
- National Interagency Fire Center
- National Wildfire Coordinating Group
- New Zealand Fire Service
- UK Fire Service Resources
Journals
- Asia Pacific Fire Magazine
- Brandposten (English and Swedish editions)
- Bulletin of Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering
- Case Studies in Fire Safety (ceased 2017)
- Combustion and Flame
- Combustion Science and Technology
- European Journal of Environmental and Safety Sciences
- Face au Risque (French magazine)
- Fire (UK)
- Fire (wildfire journal)
- Fire and Materials
- Fire Australia
- Fire Engineering (for the fire services)
- Fire Findings (fee-based archive for fire investigators)
- Fire Management Today (US Forest Service)
- Fire & Risk Management Journal (formerly Fire Prevention Magazine and Fire Engineers Journal)
- Fire Protection Contractor
- Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE magazine)
- FireRescue Magazine
- Fire Research (unrelated to predecessor of Fire Safety J. of same name)
- Fire Safety Journal
- Fire Safety Matters (UK industry magazine)
- Fire Science and Technology (Japan)
- Fire Science Reviews (ceased 2018)
- Fire Technology
- FirefighterNation
- Firehouse Magazine
- Flame Retardancy and Thermal Stability of Materials
- Forensic Science Communications (FBI; ceased 2010)
- Forensic Science International
- Industrial Fire World
- International Fire Protection
- International Journal on Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes (ceased 2012)
- International Journal of Wildland Fire
- Journal of Applied Fire Science (no website; ceased 2013)
- Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
- Journal of Fire and Flammability (no website; merged into Journal of Fire Sciences)
- Journal of Fire Protection Engineering (ceased 2013)
- Journal of Fire Sciences (continues “Journal of Fire and Flammability”)
- Journal of Forensic Sciences (1972-2005)
- Journal of Forensic Sciences (2006+ )
- Journal of Hazardous Materials
- Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
- Journal of Pyrotechnics
- Journal of Structural Fire Engineering (ceased 2015)
- NFPA Journal (continues “Fire Journal” and “Quarterly of the NFPA”)
- NRIFD Reports (in Japanese)
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection
- Process Safety Progress
- Progress in Energy & Combustion Science
- Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics
- Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association (1907-1964; full text available)
- Safety
- Schadenspiegel (Munich Re; present status unclear)
- Science and Justice
- Wildfire Magazine
- Zeitschrift für Forschung und Technik im Brandschutz VFDB (German journal; no online content)
Library catalogues
- Agricola (National Agricultural Library)
- Fire Research Institute (wildland fires) online catalogue
- Fire Service College (UK) online catalogue
- New York State Academy of Fire Science
- NFPA
- NIST BFRL Firedoc (database only; library no longer exists)
- NRC Canada
- US Fire Administration online catalogue
Research institutes
- BRANZ (New Zealand)
- Building Research Establishment (Fire Research Station) (UK; now a private consultancy, no longer governmental)
- Building Research Institute (Japan)
- Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC (Australia)
- CSIRO Div. Building Construction & Engineering (Australia)
- Danish Institute of Fire Technology (DBI)
- FAA
- Health & Safety Lab. (HSE, UK)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster (Japan)
- National Research Institute of Police Science (Japan)
- Naval Research Laboratory
- NBL/SINTEF, now RISE Fire Research Norway AS (Norway)
- NIST – Engineering Laboratory
- NRCC – Codes (Natl. Bldg. Code of Canada)
- NRCC – Construction Research Centre (Canada; fire research)
- SP (RISE) (Sweden)
- Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety & Security (appears to be no longer active)
- UDRI Flame retardant research
- UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute (UL FSRI)
- US Forest Service
- USDA Forest Products Laboratory
- VNIIPO (Russia)
- VTT (Finland; current fire research status unclear)
Testing laboratories
(see also Research Institutes)
- Applied Research Laboratories
- Applied Technical Services
- Armstrong Forensic Laboratory
- Capital Testing (formerly, HPVA)
- Commercial Testing
- CSA
- Diversified Testing
- ETL/Semko/ITS (ex-Warnock Hersey)
- FM Global; formerly Factory Mutual
- Guardian Fire Testing Laboratories
- Laboratorio di Studi e ricerche sul Fuoco(Italy)
- NGC Testing Services
- NTS
- Radco
- SGS U.S. Testing Co.
- SwRI Fire Technology
- TÜV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg
- TÜV Suddeutschland
- UL
- Warrington Fire Research (UK, Belgium, Australia, Germany)
- Western Fire Center, Inc.
Universities
- Carleton University
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Fire Service College (UK)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (explosions)
- Luleå University of Technology
- Lund University
- Michigan Technological University (process safety)
- Oklahoma State University
- Science Univ. Tokyo (Center for Fire Science & Tech.)
- Seneca College
- Texas A&M University (Process Safety Center)
- TU Braunschweig
- Univ. Alberta (forest fire research)
- Univ. California Berkeley
- Univ. Cantabria (Spain)
- Univ. Canterbury
- Univ. Central Florida (Natl. Center for Forensic Science)
- Univ. Central Lancashire
- Univ. Duisburg
- Univ. Edinburgh
- Univ. Edinburgh BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering
- Univ. Ghent, Belgium
- Univ. Greenwich
- Univ. Karlsruhe (home page is in German only)
- Univ. Manchester
- Univ. Maryland
- Univ. New Haven
- Univ. Newcastle
- Univ. North Carolina–Charlotte
- Univ. Science & Technology of China (State Key Laboratory of Fire Science)
- Univ. Tennessee Knoxville
- Univ. Texas–Austin
- Univ. Tokyo (Architecture dept.)
- Univ. Tokyo (Chemical System Engineering)
- Univ. Ulster
- Univ. Waterloo
- Univ. Wuppertal (site is in German only)
- Victoria University
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
- WPI
Other types of fire entities
- Asbestos.net (information site)
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
- Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
- California BHGS
- Chemical Safety Board
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- ConsumerWatch website
- DOE Fire Protection Program
- ESD Journal (a consultancy site on electrostatic problems and fires)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Fire Hazards of MOVs
- Fire Model Survey
- Fire Risk Forum
- Fire Science degree programs (listing of colleges; primarily for fire service, etc. personnel)
- Forensic Science Technician programs (listing of colleges)
- FPL Cone Calorimeter data repository
- InterFire (fire investigation master site)
- International Accreditation Service (formerly, a part of ICBO ES)
- Motor Vehicle Fire Research Institute
- NUREG Fire Dynamics Tools
- SP Fire Test Database
- UK Communities and Local Government: Fire research (formerly, at Office of Dep. Prime Minister)
- UK Fire Safety Advice Centre
- US Forest Service T&D
- VFDB
- World Trade Center – NIST Official Government Site
- World Trade Center – Where Did the Towers Go?
- World Trade Center – Heinz Pommer and here and here
- World Trade Center – Dimitri Khalezov
- World Trade Center – 9/11 Truth Organization
- World Trade Center – Journal of 9/11 Studies
- World Trade Center – Pilots for 9/11 Truth