Links

Associations

ACFSE (European fire safety advocacy) AFSCC (trade assn. for passive fire protection) Association of Fire Consultants (UK) Aviation Fighting Working Group American Institute of Chemical Engineers American Fire Sprinkler Assn. Arson Prevention Bureau (UK) ASFP (UK passive protection contractors group) ASTM International British Automatic Sprinkler Assn. British Fire Protections Systems Assn. BSEF (brominated fire retardants) California Conference of Arson Investigators Canadian Association of Fire Investigators Combustion Institute Conseil International du Bâtiment (Commission W14 on fire) CTIF (European firefighter group) Eurofeu (European fire protection equipment makers) Federation of the European Union Fire Officers Associations (FEU) Fire Protection Assn. (UK) Fire Protection Assn. Australia Fire Retardant Chemicals Assn. Fire Suppression Systems Assn. (trade assn., non-aqueous systems) Forensic Science Society IAFSS IEC Insurance Committee for Arson Control Institution of Fire Engineers International Association of Arson Investigators International Association of Fire Chiefs International Code Council International Consortium for Fire Safety, Health and the Environment International Fire Service Training Assn. International Firestop Council (trade assn. for passive fire protection) International Water Mist Assn. ISO ISO TC92 Motor Vehicle Fire Research Institute National Assn. of Fire Equipment Distributors National Association of Fire Investigators National Association of State Fire Marshals National Fire Sprinkler Assn. NFPA Nordtest Polyurethene Foam Assn.: their fire safety page Residential Fire Safety Institute SFPE SFPE chapter at U. Md.

Bulletin Boards

Compartment Fire Behaviour Training Fire Findings Firehouse IAAI IAEI NAFI Seneca College Fireforum

Consultancies, commercial entities & misc.

Achim Hering (firestops) Aircraft Fire Protection Group AmericaFire ArcWear (useful info on arc-flash) ArupFire Bundy, Gale & Shields Combustion Safety/CEC Compu-Weather Corporate Investigative Services (some good info on fire causes & investigation) CSE FSDG (UK fireproofing mfg. assn) Fire Cause Analysis Fire Safety Design Fire Safety Institute(Jack Watts' firm) FireDirect.net Firepro Institute Ltd (Rex Wilson's consulting firm) FireUK FireWind (Victor Shestopal) GBH Intl. GE Global Asset Protection Services HSB Professional Loss Control International Fire Investigators & Consultants Interscience Communications Ltd. Jackman International Fire Consultants Marine Firfighting Institute (Tom Guldner's consultancy) MDE Engineers OSHA Safety Professionals Rolf Jensen & Associates Ron Hall & Associates S-afe, Inc. (combustion safety consultant) Senez Reed Calder (Canadian fire consultants) T.C. Forensic Tyco (detection & suppression systems) UK P&I Club (marine insurance) Utility FPE Group

Fire service-related

California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Firefighting.com FireNet (Australia) FireNet (UK Fire Services) Firetactics (excellent educational site) National Interagency Fire Center National Wildfire Coordinating Group New Zealand Fire Service UK Fire Service Resources

Journals

Highlighted: academic or research journals American Fire Journal Asia Pacific Fire Magazine Brandposten (English and Swedish editions) Combustion and Flame Combustion Science and Technology Combustion Theory and Modelling Fire (UK) Fire and Materials Fire and Rescue Fire Australia Fire Chief Fire Engineering (targeted at the fire services, not FPEs) Fire Findings (for fire investigators) Fire International Fire Management Today (US Forest Service) Fire Prevention & Fire Engineers Journal (now merged into one) Fire Protection Contractor Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE) Fire Rescue Magazine Fire Research News (UK govt.) Fire Safety Engineering Fire Safety Journal Fire Technology Firehouse Magazine Forensic Science Communications FS-World Industrial Fire Journal Industrial Fire World International Fire Protection International Journal on Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes International Journal of Wildland Fire Journal of Applied Fire Science Journal of Electrostatics Journal of Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE) Journal of Fire Sciences Journal of Forensic Sciences Journal of Hazardous Materials Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries Journal of Pyrotechnics National Fire & Rescue NEC Digest (NFPA) NFPA Journal NFPA News Process Safety Progress Progress in Energy & Combustion Science Schadenspiegel (Munich Re) Wildfire Magazine Zeitschrift für Forschung und Technik im Brandschutz VFDB

Library catalogues

FEMA LRC online catalogue Fire Service College (UK) online catalogue NFPA NIST BFRL Firedoc NRC Canada New York State Academy of Fire Science

Research institutes

BRANZ (New Zealand) Building Research Establishment (Fire Research Station) (UK) Building Research Institute (Japan) CSIRO Div. Building Construction & Engineering (Australia) Danish Institute of Fire Technology FAA Health & Safety Lab. (HSE, UK) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster (Japan) National Research Institute of Police Science (Japan) Naval Research Laboratory NBL/SINTEF (Norway) NIST - BFRL NRCC - Codes (Natl. Bldg. Code of Canada) NRCC - IRC (Canada; fire research) SP (Sweden) Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety & Security USDA Forest Service Forest Products Lab. VNIIPO (home page is in Russian only) VTT (Finland)

Testing laboratories

(see also Research Institutes) Applied Technical Services Armstrong Forensic Laboratory Bodycote (Canada; formerly Ortech) Commercial Testing CSA CSA (USA) ETL/Semko/ITS (ex-Warnock Hersey) FM Global; formerly Factory Mutual Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial (Argentina) LSF Sud (Italy) NGC Testing Services Omega Point Laboratories Radco SGS U.S. Testing Co. SwRI Fire Technology TÜV Essen TÜV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg TÜV Suddeutschland UL UL Canada Warrington Fire Research (UK) Western Fire Center, Inc.

Universities

Carleton University Eastern Kentucky University Fire Service College (UK) Glasgow Caledonian University Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (explosions) Lund University Michigan Technological University (process safety) Oklahoma State University Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (home page is in Spanish) Science Univ. Tokyo (Applied Mathematics dept.) Science Univ. Tokyo (Center for Fire Science & Tech.) South Bank University Texas A&M University (Process Safety Center) TU Braunschweig (home page is in German only) TU Delft (explosions) Univ. Alberta (forest fire research) Univ. California Berkeley (Prof. Pagni) Univ. California Berkeley (Firewalk Project) Univ. Cantabria (Spain) Univ. Canterbury Univ. Central Florida (Natl. Center for Forensic Science) Univ. Central Lancashire Univ. Coimbra (Portugal) Univ. Duisburg Univ. Edinburgh Univ. Ghent Univ. Greenwich Univ. Karlsruhe (home page is in German only) Univ. Maryland Univ. New Haven Univ. New South Wales (bush fire research) Univ. Newcastle Univ. North Carolina--Charlotte Univ. Salford Univ. Science & Technology of China (Prof. Fan Weicheng) Univ. Texas--Austin Univ. Tokyo (Architecture dept.) Univ. Tokyo (Chemical System Engineering) Univ. Ulster Univ. Wales (explosions) Univ. Waterloo Univ. Wuppertal Victoria University of Technology WPI

Other types of fire entities

AcuSafe (risk info collection from AcuTech Consulting) Arson Prevention Bureau (UK) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre California BHFTI Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board China Fire Net Consumer Product Safety Commission DOE Fire Protection Program ESD Journal (a consultancy site on electrostatic problems and fires) Federal Emergency Management Agency fire.gov (fire research newsletter) Fire and Materials 2005 Fire Hazards of MOVs Fire in Tunnels (European research project) Fire Litigation site Fire Model Survey FireNet Fire Risk Forum Fire-Tech project, Fire Risk of Cultural Heritage Industrial Explosions, 6th Intl. Symposium InterFire (fire investigation master site) International Accreditation Service (formerly, a part of ICBO ES) ISFI 2006 Conference (NEW!!) Jay's Fire Tools Motor Vehicle Fire Research Institute NUREG Fire Dynamics Tools Passive Fire Protection Australia Room Fire Video Safetynet SBI first roundrobin, EU laboratories UK ODPM (fire info by Office of Dep. Prime Minister) US Forest Service T&D World Trade Center evacuation study World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks (links) VFDB