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...
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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,...
Upgrading Fire Behaviour of Wooden Doors in Historic Buildings
When it comes to fire safety in many buildings, including apartment buildings, old wooden doors often represent a weak point....
Fire Threats to Archaeological Sites: an Unexpected Theme
Can fires of all vegetation damage archaeological or cultural resources? Actually, fire always poses a threat to every human artefact,...
Historic Timber Doors: The IFE Guide to Fire Resistance
In historic building restoration projects, the role of doors in fire safety assessments is one of the many relevant problems....
Cultural Heritage Endangered: Being Aware To Learn From 2023 Disasters
In 2023, the world witnessed the destruction of several historically and culturally significant buildings, with wars, earthquakes, and fires being...
Historic Artifacts: Choosing the Fire Extinguisher
Fire extinguishers are an essential tool in protecting cultural heritage buildings and artefacts from the damaging effects of fire. Their...
Industrial Archaeology and Fire Safety: a Missing Marriage?
The field of industrial archaeology, emerged in the 1950s, is now understood as the study of artifacts and evidence from...
A New tool to Protect Cultural Heritage: VR Training for First Responders
On the day Notre Dame de Paris was devastated by a major fire, trained firefighters managed to save many priceless...
Cultural Heritage Resilience: An Overview of Fire Safeguarding Measures
In the annals of history, fires have left an indelible mark, narrating tales of unintentional and deliberate blazes that have...
Fire Extinguishers Agents: Which Impact on Cultural Heritage Materials?
Portable fire extinguishers play an important role in the protection of both cultural heritage properties and the collections housed in...
Fire at Damascus Historic District: destroyed a Palace and Cultural Treasures, fire protection, historic, cultural heritage
On the morning of July 16, 2023, a fierce fire ravaged the city's historic district, specifically the Old City's Souk...
Historical Objects and Faulty Air Conditioners: a Massive Destruction
On the evening of September 2, 2018, a catastrophic fire ravaged the National Museum of Brazil, resulting in the loss...
The NFPA 909 on Museums, Libraries and Places of Worship
The NFPA 909 standard, published in 2021, provides guidelines for the protection of cultural resources during fire events. Some key...
Fire Safety Engineering and Cultural Heritage Buildings
Fire prevention is a discipline that relies in most cases on the use of standardized solutions. The verification of safety...
Risk Management in Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Comprehensive Approach
Heritage managers and caretakers face the challenging task of prioritizing resources to safeguard collections, buildings, monuments, and sites. This involves...
Firefighting Equipment for Museum: a 2006 Report
The 2006 report "Manual Fire Extinguishing Equipment for Protection of Heritage", prepared by COWI within the COST C 17 Action...
A EU Funded Course on Cultural Heritage Protection and Climate Change
In three weeks, between January and February 2019, the STORM Academy 2019 has been held in Rome, within the EU...
Europe Is Ready for Climate Impact. What about Cultural Heritage protection?
Expected annual damage to critical infrastructure in European regions, due toclimate change, by the end of the century (million EUR)...
First Aid to Cultural Heritage in the STORM Summer School
Protecting Cultural Heritage form disasters needs different actions, one of the more important of which is to make aware stakeholders...
An insight on Water Mist and Cultural Heritage fire protection
According to the NFPA 750 (Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection Systems) definition, water mist is a water spray for...
Fire Risks and New Threats from Climate Change to Libraries and Archives
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published in 2012 a document which is "an indicator-based assessment of past and projected...
