Alajar Fire Entrapment 1999

In this article a description of multiple situations that expose firefighters to danger and methods for detecting circumstances where the rules of safety do not apply are presented. Sometimes it is difficult to follow all the variables impacting the behavior of the fire, often this is linked to changes in the influencing variables that are difficult to sense. Such conditions can result in conflagrations that drastically alter the fire propagation rates. These changes can occur fast enough that firefighters are unable to reach positions of safety. The article describes phenomenon responsible for the dynamic and high-intensity fire explosion that entrapped and took the lives of four firefighters on the Alajar Fire in Spain.

Fatality, Fire Behavior, Entrapment