Media Coverage
FDNY Burns Buildings To Better Understand Today's "Hotter And Faster" Fires
July 3, 2012
In this article, author Jen Chung highlights the research conducted by the Fire Safety Research Insitute (FSRI), part of UL Research Institutes along with the FDNY and NIST on Governors Island, NY. Read the article to learn more about the experiments conducted involving over 300 FDNY firefighters.
Watch this video to see one of the full-scale experiments conducted to observe the difference in temperature and oxygen levels between a bedroom with an open door and one with a closed door during a fire:
https://gothamist.com/news/photos-video-fdny-burns-buildings-to-better-understand-todays-hotter-and-faster-fires
