TRENTON – Preliminary reports on last night's two-alarm house fire that left two firefighters with minor injuries after a backdraft ripped through a burning house indicate that firefighters followed ...

As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm ...

This is the terrifying moment that a violent jet of smoke and flames bursts out of a shipping container. The deadly phenomenon, known as a backdraft, is a firefighter's worst nightmare and occurs when ...