The new bill will require smoke escape hoods in all high-rise apartment buildings. Property managers say purchasing the hoods would drive up rent costs.

With fire incidents still making headlines across Delhi-NCR on a day-to-day basis, living in a high rise building has certainly made the residents face anxiety thinking about the eventually of getting ...

The Rajkot fire brigade successfully tested a modern fire escape chute system to enhance emergency evacuation and rescue operations in high-rise buildings across the city.

Melanie Diaz died in a high-rise apartment fire in February 2023. Her family has been pushing to make buildings safer ever since.

Corey Smedley tells why his department adopted the use of floor-below nozzles and smoke curtains for battling fires in unsprinklered high-rise residential buildings. Research that was conducted by the ...

Across the United States, fire departments continue to confront the difficult reality that smoke — not flame — is the leading cause of civilian death in high-rise fires. While sprinklers and modern ...