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 ...

The new recruits sat along the edges inside a shipping container, watching flames build around and above them as the temperature in the container soared to 1,000 degrees. An enclosed space, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

For the first time this March, the cadets enrolled in the fire science technology program at Lone Star College-Montgomery won’t have to pack up all their gear and drive to Houston for an important ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

STEPHEN PINGRY / Tulsa World Tulsa Fire Department recruits watch the flashover training container Monday as it heats up and smokes. STEPHEN PINGRY / Tulsa World Tulsa Fire Department recruits wait on ...

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 ...