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 ...

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 ...

Pittsburgh fire Capt. Brian Tarbuck watched smoke billow from a rust-red shipping container as he described how the first responders training inside could spot the telltale signs of an impending ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 75-acre facility includes outdoor training spaces for police, fire and paramedic students. Students will go through training situations with equipment they would use in the real world. Officials ...

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 ...

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 ...