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...
Month: April 2010
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...
The COST C17 List of Fire Incidents in Historic Buildings
Compiled by Ingval Maxwell and published in the Cost C17 proceedings, an interesting outcome of the EU - COST C17...
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...
