A multi-phase Research Foundation project works to quantify the environmental impact of fire

What’s the environmental impact of fires? It sounds like a fairly simply question, but finding quantifiable answers isn’t quite so easy. Yes, we know that fighting structure fires often require an average of hundreds of gallons of water, generating run-off that includes toxins released from byproducts of burned household items, and that those toxins are also released directly into the atmosphere. But knowing how to accurately measure and quantify fire’s environmental impact from these and related factors has yet to be identified. Through its Environmental Impact of Fire project, the Fire Protection Research Foundation is working to figure all that...