On Sept. 7, someone set off the release of 4,500 pounds of fire-suppressant halon-1301 gas in the Charleston County records center warehouse. This was bad news for two reasons: For one, halon is not ...

FULLERTON – More than 200 City Hall employees were evacuated for 45 minutes Monday afternoon after an accidental discharge of the halon fire suppression system was reported in the Information ...

Fire protection for power plant turbine rooms has typically been a game of tradeoffs. Enclosure integrity issues in older facilities can render CO2 and halon systems ineffective. In new and old ...

In several recent issues of Circle Track, we took an in-depth look at firesuits and protective apparel. All of those items are designed to protect you, the driver, if a fire gets too close. Here, we ...

Nearly two dozen US marines were treated for exposure to a fire retardant gas on Thursday after an extinguishing system went off in an assault vehicle during a training exercise. There were no serious ...

Diehl Aerosystems' division AOA is demonstrating its FIREX water-mist fire-suppression system for aircraft cargo compartments, which it says is the only halon replacement system to have passed all US ...

Pacific Scientific Aerospace is to provide the engine and auxiliary power unit (APU) fire-suppression systems on the Airbus A350 XWB and for the first time will not use halon as the firefighting agent ...