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.SFPE EUROPE INDUSTRY NEWS
Is your holiday apartment fire safe?
Which? News
Many holiday apartments in Italy, Spain and Greece are unlikely to have taken appropriate fire safety measures, Which? Travel has found.
Only 14% of Airbnb properties in Italy report having a smoke alarm and 12% declare a carbon monoxide alarm, according to accommodation analysts AirDNA.
In Spain, 27% had a smoke alarm and 13% a carbon monoxide alarm. In Greece, 21% reported having a smoke alarm but only 11% a carbon monoxide alarm.
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Putting the brakes on lithium-ion batteries to prevent fires
American Chemical Society via ScienceDaily
Lithium-ion batteries are used to power everything from smart watches to electric vehicles, thanks to the large amounts of energy they can store in small spaces. When overheated, however, they're prone to catching fire or even exploding. But recent research offers a possible solution with a new technology that can swiftly put the brakes on a Li-ion battery, shutting it down when it gets too hot.
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Automatic forest fire detection system with AI enables early and efficient fire fighting
Robotics Tomorrow
Heat waves caused by climate change are currently also increasing strongly across Europe and the associated risk of forest fires is rising immensely. Fires in natural areas are increasingly getting out of control due to drought or wind, and the risk of danger to people, animals, nature and infrastructure is growing. But how can fires be detected and localized at an early stage in order to minimize or even avoid serious damage?
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Buildings are banning e-bikes amid deadly battery fires
Axios
Some building owners, mainly in New York City, are clamping down on electric bicycles after a recent spate of damaging and deadly battery fires.
Why it matters: E-bikes are surging in popularity, but the benefits they bring — lower emissions, easy transportation — are threatened by the growing toll of injuries and deaths from blazes sparked by their lithium-ion batteries.
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Wildfires are becoming more dangerous — here's why
Imperial College London
From London to the Arctic, wildfires are an increasing threat we have to understand better, says Professor Guillermo Rein.
Wildfires are getting bigger and more intense – and are burning in places never seen before. A big contributing factor is global warming drying vegetation and soil out, and creating more combustible material.
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.SFPE EUROPE CHAPTER NEWS
SFPE Europe Elects Kathrin Grewolls and Luciano Nigro to Board of Directors
Grewolls and Nigro were unanimously elected at the SFPE Europe General Assembly Meeting on 3 November 2022. They join David Grossmann, Chair; Kees Both, Immediate Past Chair; Robert McNamee, Director; Beth Tubbs, SFPE 2022 President; and Wojciech Węgrzyński, Director, on the SFPE Europe Board of Directors. Kathrin Grewolls, PhD, is Professor at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg in Ulm, Germany, and specializes in modeling fire phenomena, evacuation process, fire protection simulation, and disaster control. Luciano Nigro, PhD, is Director at Jensen Hughes Italy in Milan and President of the SFPE Italy Chapter; he specializes in technical standardization, fire-fighting system design, and modeling the interaction between fire and fire control.
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Board meeting in BIV today! A lot of energy and a lot of laughter, we can, when 2/3 of the financial year has passed, state that BIV has done very well! 
