Fire Research Information Services (FRIS)

FRIS is a resource both to the BFRL staff and to fire protection engineers, scientists, and fire service personnel around the world. The 70,000 item document collection is accessible through FIREDOC; it is an on-line bibliographic database accessible at no cost via the Internet and the Web. The collection represents a vast resource of information on nearly any fire research related subject.

• BFRL Publications Online A collection of recent publications (since 1992) available for free download published by BFRL staff.
• FIREDOC, a web searchable database of publications in the Fire Research Information Service at BFRL.
  
  •   For more information on the exciting new feature of FIREDOC. (Currently available only in the U. S.)
  • More FIREDOC search features: locate references by report number, or book/conference title.
  • Advanced searching: Greater flexibility and detailed searching by using the Command structure and Boolean operators. Help screens are available.
    
• Fire Test Data and Reports
• FRIS Products and Publications
• Fire on the Web
• Fire Modeling Programs
• International Fire Conferences
• Other Fire Resources

FIREDOC

FIREDOC is a fire research bibliographic database. The database reflects the 70,000 holdings (published reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and audiovisual items) of FRIS. Each reference has complete bibliographic information including the title, author, journal, book, or conference identification, keywords, identifiers, and abstract (if available). We have recently added a direct link from the FIREDOC record to BFRL Publications Online. Currently, links exist for BFRL fire research publications in the year 2004 and beyond.

• Search FIREDOC
• FIREDOC Search for BFRL Staff

Obtaining references: To obtain references of interest, contact colleagues, public or university libraries, publishers, information brokers. To purchase a United States Government publication from the National Technical Information Service, call: 800-553-6847 or (1) + 703-605-6000 or write:

5285 Port Royal Road,
Springfield, VA 22161 USA.

To purchase a United States Government publication from the Government Printing Office, call: (1) + 202-783-3238 or write:

U.S. Superintendent of Documents,
Washington, DC 20402 USA

Fire Test Data

BFRL maintains a database of fire test reports and related test data developed by NIST researchers and by other research organizations that have contributed data for public use. For further information contact Paul Reneke, paul.reneke@nist.gov.

International Fire Conferences

A listing of international fire conferences is available.

FRIS Products/Publications:

Each year a CD-ROM is created containing publications of BFRL staff. BFRL publications are also available on the web.

Fire on the Web

These web pages provide links to experimental fire data and mpeg/quicktime movies for fire tests that can be downloaded and/or viewed with a web browser. This award winning site contains additional fire-related resources at BFRL and elsewhere.

Fire Modeling Programs

The Building and Fire Research Laboratory has developed numerous software tools for predicting the effect of fires on the environment in a building. Many of these programs and associated documentation are available through the Fire Safety Fire Modeling Programs.

Links to Other Fire Resources

• Australian Fire Protection Association
• CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering, Melbourne (Australia)
• Disaster Finder
• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
• FEMA's Learning Resource Center
• Fire and EMS Information Network (US)
• Fire Protection Association (UK)
• Fire Service College, Moreton-on-Marsh (UK)
• Firehouse Magazine
• FireNet (UK) Electronic pages for the British Fire Service
• International Association of Arson Investigators
• International Association of Fire Chiefs
• International Network for Fire Information and Reference Exchange (inFIRE)
• National Fire Protection Association
• National Research Council of Canada
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)
• University of Canterbury, NZ
• University of Greenwich, Fire Safety Engineering Group, UK
• University of Maryland, Fire Protection Engineering
• U.S. Fire Administration
• VTT Technical Research Center (Finland)
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

For further information contact: Paul A. Reneke, paul.reneke@nist.gov; fax: 301-975-4052

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