Abstract: Surface flashover characteristics of insulation materials in vacuum are key factors to determine the behavior of high voltage electrical equipment. Although the surface flashover in vacuum ...

Many nightclubs contain the fuel load of an entire residential condominium, the ignition sources of an industrial site, and ...

As young partygoers rang in the New Year at a packed bar in the Swiss Alps, the celebrating quickly turned into a nightmare ...

Follow for live updates on a ski resort bar fire that killed at least 40 people during a New Year’s party in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Videos and photos have begun to emerge showing the moments before the blaze tore through the Le Constellation bar in ...

Investigators say early evidence points to celebratory sparklers igniting a low wooden ceiling and triggering a flashover ...

A haunting new photo captured the moment lit sparklers attached to champagne bottles ignited the ceiling at the Le ...

Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a ...

The deadly Swiss bar fire may have spread quickly, hiking temperatures up to 1,000 degrees in a matter of seconds.

A New Year’s Eve celebration at an upscale Swiss ski resort ended in catastrophe this week when a fire tore through a packed bar, leaving at least 40 people ...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Authorities in Switzerland are searching for the cause of a fire that ripped through a popular ...

Swiss investigators are probing what caused a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left around 40 people dead and ...