In Ron Howard's "Backdraft," Chicago Fire Department firefighters (and siblings) Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin) McCaffrey share a complicated relationship. Stephen thinks that his ...

A firefighter stepped into a backdraft on Christmas day in Louisiana. The St. John Volunteer Fire Department was called to a home with smoke coming from behind a fireplace. Two firefighters went to ...

A Buffalo firefighter died in a downtown fire on Wednesday. Buffalo firefighters responded to an explosion and fire at a building under renovation at 745 Main Street at 10:00 Wednesday morning.

You can imagine, then, that he’s high on studios and production companies’ list of people to work with, and that includes Brian Grazer. The veteran producer, a business partner of Ron Howard, who has ...

To learn how firefighters could anticipate deadly backdraft events in the field, NIST researchers conducted hundreds of fire experiments while taking a plethora of measurements. Many of these tests ...

Buffalo Fire commissioner explains backdraft in Main Street fire Commissioner William Rinaldo says a backdraft is a very rare occurrence.