Ten people died and fourteen more were injured when a tourist coach burst into flames after a collision near Luxor, Egypt. The coach apparently burst into flames after hitting a truck. Reports show the coach covered in flames and indicate that some victims were killed...
Nobody was injured in this spectacular natural gas powered bus fire, near Perugia, Italy, 16th April. Only the driver was on board. The columns of fire result from automatic vending of natural gas, intended to keep the fire away from the vehicle to give time for...
Proposal to ban combustible cladding in renovations of high-rise buildings, unless sprinklers are fitted. The IEBC Technical Committee (International Building Code) has approved proposal EB33 to create a new section 309.2.1 to ban the use of “combustible” materials in...
This NIST review analyses current knowledge on life cycle and environmental assessments of plastics, based on over 150 publications. It is noted that “FRs are usually ignored in plastics LCA studies”. Only six publications relevant to FRs are cited: Broeren 2016,...
Independent chemical assessments for safer flame retardants for electronics targets PIN FRs. The Science-based NGO ChemFORWARD has announced that it is now working with Apple and Google to implement its SAFERTM (*) value-chain chemical hazard repository for PIN flame...
