Fire and Explosion Safety Links
compiled by Fire Science and Technology Inc.
The links compiled below focus on fire science, fire research, and fire testing aspects.
Associations
- ACFSE (European fire safety advocacy)
- AFSCC (trade assn. for passive fire protection)
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- American Fire Sprinkler Assn.
- ASTM International
- British Automatic 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)
- Federation of the European Union Fire Officers Associations (FEU)
- Fire Protection Assn. (UK)
- Fire Protection Assn. Australia
- 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.
- Aircraft Fire Protection Group
- AmericaFire
- ArcWear (useful info on arc-flash)
- ArupFire
- Bundy, Gale & Shields
- Compu-Weather
- CSE
- DriFire (FR clothing)
- FDRsafety (combustible dusts consulting)
- Fire Cause Analysis
- Fire Safety Design
- Fire Safety Institute(Jack Watts’ firm)
- FireDirect.net
- Firepro Institute Ltd (Rex Wilson’s consulting firm)
- FireUK
- FireWind (Victor Shestopal)
- GBH Intl.
- HSB Professional Loss Control
- International Fire Investigators & Consultants
- Interscience Communications Ltd.
- International Fire Consultants
- LWG Consulting (disaster recovery services)
- Marine Firfighting Institute (Tom Guldner’s consultancy)
- MDE Engineers
- OSHA Safety Professionals
- Phil Ackland (commercial kitchen fire investigation, inspection)
- Rolf Jensen & Associates
- Ron Hall & Associates
- S-afe, Inc. (combustion safety consultant)
- Senez Reed Calder (Canadian fire consultants)
- T.C. Forensic
- Tyco (detection & suppression systems)
- UK P&I Club (marine insurance)
- Utility FPE Group
Fire service-related
- California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection
- Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre
- Firefighting.com
- FireNet (UK Fire Services)
- Firetactics (excellent educational site)
- National Interagency Fire Center
- National Wildfire Coordinating Group
- New Zealand Fire Service
- UK Fire Service Resources
Journals
Highlighted: academic or research journals
- Asia Pacific Fire Magazine
- Brandposten (English and Swedish editions)
- Bulletin of Japan Association for fire Science and Engineering
- Case Studies in Fire Safety
- Combustion and Flame
- Combustion Science and Technology
- European Journal of Environmental and Safety Sciences
- Face au Risque (French magazine)
- Fire (UK)
- Fire and Materials
- Fire and Rescue
- Fire Australia
- Fire Engineering (for the fire services)
- Fire Findings (archive for fire investigators)
- Fire Management Today (US Forest Service)
- Fire Risk Management (formerly Fire Prevention Magazine and Fire Engineers Journal)
- Fire Protection Contractor
- Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE)
- FireRescue Magazine
- Fire Research (unrelated to predecessor of Fire Safety J. of same name)
- Fire Safety Journal
- Fire Science and Technology (Japan)
- Fire Science Reviews
- Fire Technology
- Firehouse Magazine
- Flame Retardancy and Thermal Stability of Materials
- Forensic Science Communications (FBI; ceased 2010)
- FS-World
- Industrial Fire Journal
- 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 (ceased 2013)
- Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
- Journal of Fire Protection Engineering (ceased 2013)
- Journal of Fire Sciences (continues “Journal of Fire and Flammability”)
- Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Journal of Hazardous Materials
- Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
- Journal of Pyrotechnics
- Journal of Structural Fire Engineering
- NFPA Journal (continues “Fire Journal” and “NFPA Quarterly”)
- NRIFD Reports
- Process Safety Progress
- Progress in Energy & Combustion Science
- Schadenspiegel (Munich Re)
- Wildfire Magazine
- Zeitschrift für Forschung und Technik im Brandschutz VFDB (German journal; no online content)
Library catalogues
- US Fire Administration online catalogue
- Fire Research Institute (wildland fires) online catalogue
- Fire Service College (UK) online catalogue
- NFPA
- NIST BFRL Firedoc
- NRC Canada
- New York State Academy of Fire Science
Research institutes
- BRANZ (New Zealand)
- Building Research Establishment (Fire Research Station) (UK)
- Building Research Institute (Japan)
- 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 SP Fire Norway AS (Norway)
- NIST – BFRL
- NRCC – Codes (Natl. Bldg. Code of Canada)
- NRCC – IRC (Canada; fire research)
- SP (RISE) (Sweden)
- Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety & Security
- UDRI Flame retardant research
- USDA Forest Products Laboratory
- VNIIPO (home page is in Russian only)
- VTT (Finland)
Testing laboratories
(see also Research Institutes)
- Applied Technical Services
- Armstrong Forensic Laboratory
- Commercial Testing
- CSA
- CSA (USA)
- ETL/Semko/ITS (ex-Warnock Hersey)
- FM Global; formerly Factory Mutual
- Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn.
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial (Argentina)
- Laboratorio di Studi e ricerche sul Fuoco(Italy)
- NGC Testing Services
- Omega Point Laboratories
- Radco
- SGS U.S. Testing Co.
- SwRI Fire Technology
- TÜV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg
- TÜV Suddeutschland
- UL
- Warrington Fire Research (UK)
- Western Fire Center, Inc.
Universities
- Carleton University
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Fire Service College (UK)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (explosions)
- Lund University
- Michigan Technological University (process safety)
- Oklahoma State University
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (home page is in Spanish)
- 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 (Prof. Pagni)
- Univ. California Berkeley (Firewalk Project)
- Univ. Cantabria (Spain)
- Univ. Canterbury
- Univ. Central Florida (Natl. Center for Forensic Science)
- Univ. Duisburg
- Univ. Edinburgh
- Univ. Edinburgh BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering
- Fire Service College (UK)
- Univ. Ghent, Belgium
- Univ. Greenwich
- Univ. Karlsruhe (home page is in German only)
- Univ. Maryland
- Univ. New Haven
- Univ. Newcastle
- Univ. North Carolina–Charlotte
- Univ. Salford
- Univ. Science & Technology of China (Prof. Fan Weicheng)
- 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 of Technology
- WPI
Other types of fire entities
- AcuSafe (risk info collection from AcuTech Consulting)
- Asbestos.net (information site)
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
- Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
- California BHFTI
- 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 in Tunnels (European research project)
- Fire Litigation site
- Fire Model Survey
- Fire Risk Forum
- FireNet
- Fire-Tech project, Fire Risk of Cultural Heritage
- 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
- FPL Cone Calorimeter database
- InterFire (fire investigation master site)
- International Accreditation Service (formerly, a part of ICBO ES)
- iPrometheus (European fire safety engineering bulletin board)
- Motor Vehicle Fire Research Institute
- NUREG Fire Dynamics Tools
- Passive Fire Protection Australia
- Room Fire Video
- Safetynet
- Smoke Alarm Warning
- 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
- 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