The first time I heard the words “the Swede,” I was watching a movie called “Heartbreak Ridge” starring Clint Eastwood as a rough and tough Marine Gunnery Sergeant trying to train a group of misfit ...

Even dressed in professional gear, surviving this phenomenon is highly improbable due to the high temperatures, speed, and because there is no safe place left inside. A flashover, a thermal bomb with ...

Several weeks ago, I happened to be out at a fire department training center as the department trained with thermal imagers. The only training they planned to conduct was to get the flashover ...