When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

Portland Fire & Rescue said Wednesday that crews responded to a commercial fire inside a high-rise structure in Northwest Portland, and that the building’s internal sprinkler system kept the flames in ...

Corey Smedley tells why his department adopted the use of floor-below nozzles and smoke curtains for battling fires in unsprinklered high-rise residential buildings. Research that was conducted by the ...