Sprinkler Corrosion and Fire Safety Issues in Historic Buildings
Ageing firefighting installations can cause severe reliability problems in historic buildings. An interesting article (Corrosion Process Inside Steel Fire Sprinkler...
NSW Guidelines on Fire Safety in Heritage Buildings
State of New South Wales (Australia) has published the Guidelines on fire safety in heritage buildings. In the introduction to...
The Arson Threat to Historical Buildings and Built Heritage
Arson has been in history and continues to pose a serious risk to historic and cultural buildings. In fact, the...
Fire Test On A Standing Georgian Dwelling Bath (UK) 1967
Report on a Fire Test of a Ceiling in a Georgian Dwelling House on 2 March 1967, published in the...
Fire Incidents in Historic Buildings (2000–2006): The COST C17 Report
Compiled by Professor Ingval Maxwell and published in the Cost C17 proceedings, this compilation presents a comprehensive catalogue of the...
Flame retardant Textile Materials Vs Fire Hazards in Historic Buildings
One of the issues addressed during the Cost C17 Action "Fire Loss to Built Heritage" has been the role of...
Windsor Castle Fire London (UK)
The 1992 Windsor Castle fire occurred on Friday, 20 November 1992 in Windsor Castle, to the west of London, England...
Fire of the Dome of St. Petersburg Cathedral (Russia)
On August 25, 2006 the domes of the landmark 19th-century Trinity Cathedral were all but destroyed in a blaze that...
White House Compound Fire (USA)
On December 19, 2007, offices in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House were damaged by smoke and...
Fire destroyed Historic Pier at Weston-super-Mare (UK)
Chris Borrison / The Grand Pier in flames On July 28, 2008, a huge fire has completely destroyed the partly wooden pier in...
Fire at Manezh Exhibition Center in Moscow (Russia)
Night image of the indoor riding academy in Moscow (Russia) called Manezh, which has been severely damahed on 14 March,...
1996 Treasury Building Fire – Washington DC (USA)
On June 26, 1996, during a construction project to install a new roof on the building, a fire started in...
24 die in Historic Building Fire in Calcutta (India)
On March 22nd, 2010, a fire occurred in the Stephen Court, located in the heart of the Calcutta, which houses...
Fire in Historical Exhibition Building in Prague (Czech Republic)
Image of the fire of the Industrial Palace (Průmyslový Palác) in Prague (Marie Kolovratnikova, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia...
700 years old Church Fire in Bistrita (Romania)
Image released into the public domain by its author, Muzsi Endre-Előd. The 700-year-old Evangelist church in the city of Bistrita...
Restoration of Sungnyemun Gate, Seoul (Korea)
Sungnyemun (Namdaemun) Gate, Seoul in 2013 By DoulosCore at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39905526 On Feb. 11, 2008, a...
Measuring the Impact of Fire Extinguisher Agents on Cultural Resource Materials – Final Report (2010)
One of the main problems posed by fire protection of cultural resources is the behavior of archaic and support materials...
Cutty Sark Fire: Vacuum Cleaner Blamed
The Cutty Sark the day after the May, 21 2007 Fire (Stephen Craven / The Cutty Sark, burnt out) On the morning...
Anna Amalia Library Fire – Weimar (Germany)
The building of the Anna Amalia Library in Weimar after del 2004 fire - Michak, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via...
240.000$ Damages to Restore Books after Car Hit Hydrant
The California Historical Society reopened on March 2nd, 2009, after a flood damaged more than 1,500 antique and historic books...
Fire Drill at Canterbury Cathedral (UK)
Becket's Crown, the eastern most point of Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, England (Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0) In...
Fire at Zurich Carpenters’ Guildhouse cause death of Firefighter
A 650-year-old building in Zurich, known as the Zimmerleuten guild house, suffered extensive damage in a recent fire, resulting in...
