Today Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥 had visitors to our lab from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council !! We shared our research on wildfires, battery fires, and more 🔥🔥

I agree with the proposed solutions to Greece's wildfire woes in this Al Jazeera English article. But let's be clear, #wildfire is a natural hazard not a natural disaster. What turns wildfire into a disaster are the socially constructed risks the article discusses aje.io/pk9zz2

Tuesday evening, Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥 presented at Hazards Forum hosted at ICE. Great to hear from him about the work conducted in Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥 coupling London Fire Brigade and Met Office data to explain fire occurrences in the city & what this might mean in a changing climate!

Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to attend a talk by Jose Torero on the significance of competence in engineering fire-safe timber buildings. He argued that without the proper foundational competency framework, safety becomes a luxury accessible only to those who can afford it.

On Thursday and Friday, my summer student, Simona, and I wrapped up her project where she designed and created a lab demo to showcase flashover in compartments! It's really cool to have this educational tool in Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥 , and I'm excited to build on it in the future! 🔥🔬

This Monday, we had a visit from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council at Imperial College London and our lab, Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥. I presented my wildfire flame spread demo to them. For some fun, we conducted a race between the horizontal and inclined cases... I'm sure you can guess which one came out on top! Haha 😄🔥

Today, Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥 hosted a visit by Martina Manes from University of Liverpool. It was great to hear about her involvement in EUFireStat. The project aims to harmonise fire statistics in the EU and other participating countries. Really awesome and opens door to data-driven methods in FSE!🤓

After finally taking my Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥 photo I can announce that I am a Research Associate at Imperial College London. Having studied my undergrad here 10 years ago... it is nice to come back with experiences from Edinburgh Fire and London Fire Brigade! Lets see what the future holds!🔥

The lab looks much better with people and demos now. 🙏🏻

Every time I read about the dire situation for the victims of the 2018 Mati fire, it breaks my heart.

Hoy, os cuento por qué el aceite de oliva está tan caro, y por qué lo va a estar aún más. Bienvenidos a la historia de un colapso ya anunciado.

And here is Carlos Walker-Ravena presenting the new Resilience Alliance #Cyprus goat firefighter tactical employment. Goats can be tactically grazed on areas of tactical wildfire risk 🐐🐐

Epidemic of smouldering wildfires in British Columbia 😓

He signed many of our copies of his books. And was so kind and generous with his time and wisdom. Thank you Dr Q!

We had a great visit today from USDA Missoula Fire Lab. Dr Sara McAllister is spending two days with us at Imperial talking about wildfires, both flaming and smouldering ones. It is always such a joy to talk to her.

And a group photo with her on the last day of the visit to Imperial.

Today Prof Fernandez-Pello from UC Berkeley came to visit us. We took him to the fire lab. Note: There are two Carlos in this photo 🥰

I have had a great day today at the Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥 running a smouldering peat experiment with Carlos Walker-Ravena. This is the first of several peat samples from the #Falklandslands. Thanks Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥🛡️🎓🇪🇸🇬🇧 for letting me help today. Falkland Islands Gov Rob Gazzard

Amazing opportunity of sharing our researches with my Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥, King's College London, Edinburgh Fire and Instytut Techniki Budowlanej collegues at Fired Up! 2024 hosted by The University of Edinburgh . Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥🛡️🎓🇪🇸🇬🇧 Wojciech Węgrzyński 🔥🎙 Francesco Restuccia Wolfram Jahn Rory Hadden

The Reuters team of infographics used our lab videos of ACM burning to explain the hazards in recent facade fires. Carlos Walker-Ravena Imperial Hazelab 👨🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔥