Recent humanitarian and environmental disasters across the Asia-Pacific region have prompted a massive response from the International community to help deliver humanitarian aid and assistance to countries affected by tsunami’s, earthquakes and wildfires.A new exhibition and two day conference that will bring together those involved in providing aerial support during humanitarian and environmental disasters, as well as other types of relief, will take place on 27-28 October 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Safety Media, working with Speech Bubble, has announced the launch of the Fire Safety iPhone App.

UL has joined forces with SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden to provide testing for the CE Mark.

Behind the scenes with the UK ISAR team that attended the aftermath of the Haiti devastation.

An emergency life-saving throwline designed and manufactured by UK based Balcan Engineering, which is normally used to rescue people from water, ice and mud helped avert a diesel spillage disaster, which threatened to contaminate Lake Michigan in the United States.

LION, worldwide suppliers of firefighter equipment and protective clothing, has launched an interactive social media community for first responders.

UL partners with SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden to provide testing for the CE mark.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has deployed a seven-person team to the site of a fatal explosion at the Kleen Energy Plant in Middletown, Connecticut.  The team arrived on site midday on Monday, February 8.

The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Fire Safety Educational Memorial Fund Committee has selected the Chautauqua County Hazardous Materials Response Team from New York as the recipient of the 2010 Warren E. Isman Educational Grant.

The Welsh Assembly has voted in favour of making sprinklers mandatory for all new homes in Wales, but the Passive Fire Protection Federation believes this may cause problems, writes Chairman David Sugden.

The Institution of Fire Engineers in Scotland ran a major technical seminar on the 20th of January at the National Library of Scotland.

Today the Ministry of Defence(MoD) and the Department for Transport (DfT) have selected Soteria as the preferred bidder for the Search and Rescue – Helicopter (SAR-H) programme.

The project to upgrade the building’s fire detection system was awarded to Telectron, who have operated in the UAE for 35 years.