Fire Science Show
Fire Science Show
Wojciech Wegrzynski
229 - Learning from 900 fires with Björn Maiworm
1 hour 1 minutes Posted Dec 3, 2025 at 8:00 am.
Why Real Fires Matter;
Designing For Firefighters’ Capabilities;
From Gut Feeling To Data;
What The Questionnaire Captures;
Stable Patterns In Outcomes;
Smoke Spread Paths And Failures;
Fire Spread Is Rare, Speed Is Not;
Timber’s Fast Propagation Risk;
Batteries, EVs, And Real Risk;
Scooters, Social Factors, Common Sense;
Rethinking Extinguishers And Behavior;
When Firefighting Really Starts;
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What can you learn after processing observations across 900 severe fires? A lot. Actually, I will send you to the paper straight away: Evaluating 900 Potentially Harming Fires in Germany: Is the Prescriptive Building Code Effective? German Fire Departments Assessed Fire Safety Measures in Buildings Through On-Site Inspections And now let's dissect this. We sit down with Björn Maiworm of the Munich Fire Department to unpack a decade of structured observations from more than 2,000 signifi...