RACELAND -- From outside the burning box, belching brown smoke through every orifice, it looks like only a madman would volunteer to go inside. Inside the box, where fountains of flame continually ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flashover is a well-known dangerous phenomenon to those in fire service. But few have experienced it. "Flashover is virtually unsurvivable by a firefighter," said Tim Tyler, firefighter/EMT for ...

RIGHT: John Linn, a trainer with Swede Survival Systems, takes his gear off after finishing a training session in the flashover container. Linn is a captain with the Indianapolis Fire Department and ...

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 ...

A cutting-edge flashover fire training cell housed in a mobile shipping container is putting North Queensland firefighter recruits through their paces, simulating real-life scenarios with blistering ...