Cultural and Historic Losses in the World: 2024 List
This post lists losses covered by cultural media assets. The list may not be complete, as the focus and approach...
Security and Safety Measures of Historic Places of Worship
The places of worship, a significant part of which are historically and artistically characterised, are exposed to risk of terrorist...
Climate Conditions and Fire Risk in Historical towns
Historic buildings and the areas that house them are subject to a particular fire risk. In fact, many of the...
Fire destroys XIX Century Paris Belltower
A fire damaged the 19th-century Paris city hall building, leaving the bell tower at risk of collapse in the 12th...
Wildland Fire Risk and Historical Towns
The wildfires that destroyed significant historical buildings of Los Angeles in early 2025 are just one example of fire risks...
Fire Behaviour of Ageing Wood
In recent years the scientific literature on wood combustion has seen a considerable number of new important studies. Among these,...
The Singularity of Italian Fire Safety Regulations for Historic Buildings
The historical heritage of buildings in Italy is extremely vast and, in addition to the most famous ones, includes the...
Fire at the Manoir de Kellac in Finistère
A fire at the Manoir de Kernault in Mellac occurred on January 12, 2025. The Manoir de Kernault is a...
Water: the Most Common Enemy of Cultural Heritage
The damage that water can cause is among the most significant to which historical and cultural heritage is exposed. From...
How Artworks Emergency Storage Centres are Made
The conservation of works of art and artefacts of artistic interest is of fundamental importance to preserve cultural heritage for...
A Fire Safety Analysis of Historic Centres
The fires that devastated large areas of Los Angeles County in January 2025 have characteristics that are strongly linked to...
NATO and the new Threats to Cultural Heritage
The special report, entitled "History and Identity Under Attack: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict", written by Julie Dzerowicz for the...
Los Angeles Fires destroy Heritage and Historic Sites
On January 7, 2025, devastating fires started in Los Angeles county, with the Eaton Fire killing five people and causing...
Monitoring Armed Conflicts Damages and Risks to Cultural Heritage
2024 has left a vast number of destructions of buildings and places of profound historical, artistic, religious and cultural value....
Lessons from 2024 to 2025 Cultural Heritage Safety
In 2024, our posts focused on significant events and issues that arose online, without following a specific objective, but rather...
World Heritage: UNESCO Guide to Managing Disaster Risks
According to UNESCO, cultural and natural heritage is increasingly affected by events that “are less and less “natural” in their...
Japan Cultural Heritage Resilience against Natural and Man-made Disasters
Japan has developed extensive experience in disaster risk management (DRM) for cultural heritage (CH) through years of history and disasters,...
EU and Climate Change Risk to Cultural Heritage
An April 2024 report from the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) highlights the growing threat that climate change poses to...
Treating Debris of Historical Value after an Earthquake
Over the last thousand years, at least 2,500 earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 have hit Italy. At least...
Water Mist in Historic Heritage. Pros and Cons
Fireriskheritage.net has already covered the use of water mist systems in historic and heritage buildings. The recent reopening of Notre...
Environment Protection and Fire Risk Reduction in History
Fire has always played an important role in antiquity, both in practice and in worship. For examle, the sacred fire...
Fire Risk Vs Resilience of Cultural Heritage
What is resilience in Cultural Heritage Resilience, in the context of cultural heritage, is the capacity of a site, structure...
UNESCO Document on Fire Protection
Protecting Cultural and Natural Heritage from Fire: A New UNESCO Guide A new UNESCO report, presented on 13 November 2024,...