A fire alarm jolts you from your office desk, and you head for the nearest exit. But what if the closest exit has already been blocked by the fire? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards ...

The main fire safety system failed disastrously in a blaze at a Bronx apartment building in January, killing 17 people, The New York Times has found. The deaths were preventable, experts said. No one ...

With the French government’s policy of stimulating tourism and the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, in 2017, a total of more than 8.1 million tourists visited the Louvre. So the security of the visitors ...

Reporting from Paradise, Calif. — The fate of Paradise was cast long before a windstorm last month fueled the deadliest fire in California history. The ridge settlement was doomed by its proximity to ...