Warren Forensics

HOT DOG: WHEN THE BACKYARD GRILL ATTACKS! | By Brian Tenace (MSME, PE, FMPC®) | I have to be honest – I sort of fear the back yard. There are gnats, neighbors with all manner of projectiles (frisbees, basketballs, volleyballs and even footballs have flown past me when all the neighborhood kids are running around!), and all the dust that my edger kicks up. But the social energy of such an active development is why I moved there. It seems a waste to eat dinner on nights like these. After all, a backyard barbecue is the highlight of summer.

But managing fire is one of the most dangerous things you can do in flip-flops. As a Mechanical Engineer and CFEI (Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator), I know a grill’s ease of use can make us forget that we are playing with fire right outside our most valuable possession – our home.
Damage from grills can happen fast...

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THE SILENT SENTRY – A WORKING SMOKE DETECTOR | By Chad Jones, PE, CMSE, CFEI, CVFI | In conversations with both friends and people I have met through emergency calls with the fire department, I often observed that a lot of people never give a second thought to that little lifesaver mounted on the ceiling or the wall of their home. That little lifesaver is the smoke detector.

On average, a fire department responded to a fire somewhere in the United States every 23 seconds in 2024. A civilian was fatally injured in a fire every...

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THE END OF DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME LEADS TO MORE VEHICLE AND PEDESTRIAN COLLISIONS | By Ellen Szubski, M.S., Ph.D., CXLT, CPSI, AHFP | Daylight saving (DST) ends on November 2, 2025, and with it the clocks will “fall back” an hour. While it is nice to gain an hour of sleep, the end of daylight-saving time also comes with a increase of vehicle crashes, injuries, and pedestrian fatalities. This phenomenon prompts the question: What is so dangerous about being a pedestrian at night?

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