California Gov. Gavin Newsom will order state officials to advance implementation of a state rule aiming to make homes more ...

You can't actually prevent an act of nature from affecting your home, as I found out recently with the Eaton Fire in Altadena ...

home still standing — which the owners credit to fire-resistant features installed during its construction. "Seeing all our friends' and neighbors' houses gone is brutal," Michael Kovac told ...

SAN DIEGO — In a La Jolla backyard, a University of San Diego professor has created what might be the future of California housing: a fire-resistant home assembled in just three days.

That’s why, decades later, Sweis made fire resistance a key focus of her architecture and construction practice, SweisKloss. She designs homes that are created, from the start, to do away with ...

Owners cleared brush away from their stucco house that has a fire-resistant roof and multi-pane windows that blocked the flames. This house in Paradise was the first home to receive the Wildfire ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- As wildfires continue to ravage California, it is a stark reminder of just how vulnerable our homes and communities are. In our area, the New Jersey Pinelands and Poconos ...

In November, the newly established industrial fire resistance test facility in Cape Town, Ignis Fire Testing, tested nonCrete’s unique low-steel, low-carbon vaulted floor system.

The neighbouring houses in the Palisades were destroyed, and Chasen thinks it was a combination of luck and fire-resistant design strategies that kept his client's home safe. It is a conventional wood ...

Karina Maher and Michael Kovac, an architect, built their Los Angeles home with fire-resistant and sustainable features. When the Palisades fire broke out, their house remained intact while others ...