KIMBERLY • Outside a modified red shipping container, only a little bit of smoke came out as firefighters practiced responding to a fire inside. But as time passed, darker and thicker plumes of smoke ...

Flashover training offers firefighters the opportunity to observe fire behavior and the signs that lead to a flashover. Training will be conducted in a Phase 1 training container from Swede Survival ...

The Madison Fire Department first began to use the flashover container in May. Members of the local news media were given the chance to experience a flashover under controlled circumstances on Tuesday ...

As the container filled with dark smoke, the firefighters inside could begin to feel the extreme heat associated with the smoke - two signs of an impending flashover. In the upper container, wood ...

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 ...