BFRL Goal

Fire Loss Reduction

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To enable engineered fire safety for people, products, and facilities; and enhance fire fighter effectiveness.

U.S. annual losses attributable to fire -- 3600 lives, 22 000 serious injuries, $10 billion in direct property loss, and $128 billion total cost. Core research to significantly reduce fire loss is organized around three technical programs: Advanced Fire Service Technologies Program  --  Enabling a shift to an information rich environment for safer and more effective fire service operations through new technology, measurement standards, and training tools. Reduced Risk of Flashover Program--  Reducing residential fire deaths by adapting measurement and predictive methods to better understand conditions leading to flashover; enabling early and  certain fire and environment sensing; advancing cost-effective fire suppression technologies; and enabling new/improved materials whose fire resistance does not negatively impact performance, cost, or the environment. Advanced Measurement and Prediction Methods Program -- Leading the world in fire measurement and prediction methods, and accelerating their transfer to practice, to enable engineered fire safety for people, products, facilities, and first responders. Component Programs: Advanced Fire Service Technologies Advanced Measurement and Prediction Methods Reduced Risk of Flashover Contact: William L. Grosshandler, Chief Fire Research Division (301) 975-2310 (301) 975-4052 (fax) email: william.grosshandler@nist.gov
	Experiments characterizing PPV fan flow (a) and corresponding model simulations using FDS / Smokeview (b).
	Methane-fired panel which creates a flux gradient for flame spread test of extruded flame retardant polymer sample rods.

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