Start at the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Fire and Life Safety Incidents archive.
Then click on Identified Events:
You can search for a known incident in the Search within box.
Or you can click on a specific decade folder to review incident reports from those years.
If you click on a decade folder, you can then review available incident reports. Incident reports are listed in order of newest to oldest incidents.
When you click on a specific incident, you will see the materials available for that specific incident. Usually a report will be listed, but sometimes you will find video or other materials.
Click on the report option, to be taken to the incident's fire investigation report.
Once you click the incident link, you will be take to a PDF of the incident. You can read online.
Or download to your computer.
It might sometimes turn out you have a citation for an incident report that doesn’t appear in the list. In this case, you can file a research request with NFPA and they will send you the report via email.
First, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on “Contact the Library.”
This will lead to a form to fill out. Be sure to include the name of the fire or incident and any citation information you may have.
