A Survey to improve Wayfinding
We inform about the possibility of improving research and the understanding of how people select routes and how they interpret signs within buildings and hence improve building safety, through the [...]
Castle destroyed by grass fire
On 10 March 2012, the castle of Krasna Horka in Slovak Republic caught fire, allegedly due to burning of dry grass by two children who were trying to light cigarettes.
The [...]
Performance based approach and fire protection of historic buildings
The strategy of protection of historical building against fire risk is different from almost any other type of building. In the most of case, the objective of fire protection, in [...]
Historic Underground Premises and Visitors Safety
During the international conference on safety issues of rescue operations in underground structures, held in Rome (Italy) on march 3rd, 2011, the argument of visitors’s safety of secret wartime tunnels [...]
Cultural Heritage and Forest Fires
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is the art, science, and technology of obtaining reliable information from noncontact imaging and other sensor systems about the Earth and its environment, and other physical [...]
Fireworks and Cultural buildings safety
On 9 February 2009 the Beijing Television Cultural Center has been damaged by a massive blaze. The building, in the centre of Beijing, was adjacent to the CCTV Headquarters. At 8:27 [...]
Egyptian Museum and the Threat of Riots Fires in Cairo (Egypt)
The potential collapse of a neighboring building caused by fire due to the riots has threatened the priceless artifacts kept in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum. Even if the risk of looting [...]
Termites, Worms, Xylophagous and Fire Protections in Museums
In some cases, fire protection systems can be useful also to improve the environment of museums and galleries, like the active fire protection measures that replaces the air within a [...]
Arson in Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona (Spain)
A disturbed man has started a fire on April 19th 2011 in Barcelona’s Cathedral Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudì’s masterpiece. The man of around 55 has been found with several lighters [...]
Montmartre Theatre Fire in Paris (France)
A major fire on March 21st, 2011, broke inside the Elysee Montmartre Theatre. Paris fire department received the first calls for help came at about 7:45 am from buildings adjacent [...]
Fire in the Abbey of Saint-Remy Rochefort (Belgium)
On december 29th. 2010, some seventy firefighters from the Fire station of Rochefort, Beauraing, Power and Dinant have been working for almost an hour onthe site of the abbey of Saint-Remy Rochefort, [...]
Fire in church during renovation works in Lucca (Italy)
A fire occurred in one of the major monuments in Lucca, the Guinigi chapel within the complex of San Francesco. The building dates from the second half of the 300 [...]
Fire Research Database – FReD – English Heritage
This database was set up by the public body English Heritage to enable all those responsible in any capacity for historic buildings to share information on related fire safety [...]
Audioguide System for Rescue Operations in Museums
An innovative system developed under EU funds to help rescuers during emergencies in museums has been presented on September 15th, 2010, in Turin (Italy) in the Villa della Regina building, [...]
Historic Hereford pub destroyed by fire
A 15th Century pub has been gutted in a fire which spread through a historic part of Hereford city centre.
More than 100 firefighters were called [...]
Historic Buildings Fire Risk Assessment Tools
Assessing fire risk in historic or heritage buildings is a defying task for every fire safety professional, as well as for every architect concerned with the problems of updating such [...]
Fire destroys 600-years old Temple in Wudang Mountains (China)
On January 19, 2003, the 600-year-old Yuzhengong Palace at the Wudang Mountains was accidentally burned down by an employee of a martial arts school. A fire broke out in the hall, [...]
Castle destroyed by fire in Ebelsbach (Germany)
On October 10, 2009, the 16th-century Schloss Ebelsbach, the main landmark in the small Barvarian village of Ebelsbach, (built between 1564 and 1569 by Baron Matthew von Rotenhan) has been destroyed [...]
Statue of Liberty Evacuation due to smoke sensor activation (New York, USA)
On July 21st, 2010, tourists visiting New York’s Statue of Liberty have been evacuated, due to the activation of a smoke sensor in the elevator shaft. An investigation later determined [...]
Titian Painting damaged during Fire: Pictures of Removal Operations
Few days after the fire has damaged the Titian’s painting “David and Goliath” (fire started on september 1st near the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice), firefighters and [...]
Philips Collection Fire – Washington DC (USA)
On September 2, 2010, a fire started on the roof of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and it has been extinguished, with no injuries reported and no serious damage [...]
Titian painting damaged during Fire in Venice Church (Italy)
On august 29th 2010, at 10 p.m., a fire has started at the roof level of the building near the Venice Salute Church. The fire, which could be an arson [...]