Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥
@GuillermoRein
Engineer & Professor of Fire Science at Imperial College. Editor @FireTechnology. Alumnus of UC Berkeley, and ICAI. Leading @ImperialHazelab.
I write mostly about fires 🔥, science 📚and engineering ⚙️. This is my thread of top threads:
Are you fascinated by all thing’s aviation? Consider a career in engineering! ✈️ Meet Sophie an aerodynamics and performance engineer. Sophie is the Assistant Chief Engineer of Electric Products at BAE Systems. Sophie uses maths to work out if new aircraft designs will fly and…
Brigade saves six trapped Londoners every day bbc.com/news/articles/…
⭕️ España apoya a Chipre en la lucha contra los incendios forestales que azotan varias de sus regiones Aportamos 2 aviones anfibios FOCA desde Matacán, Salamanca 🇪🇸🫱🏽🫲🏼🇨🇾 Solidaridad y acción global ante el cambio climático
Spanish Canadair´s filling their guts before going to battle (this footage is so good not even Green Day can spoil it)
To the brave Ukrainians working on demining, I offer this technology that uses controlled burning to partially reveal landmines buried in peat soil. Prototype technology for unearthing minefields with fire developed by team | Imperial College London imperial.ac.uk/news/181247/pr…
La diferencia entre la QUEMA DE ENSANCHE y el CONTRAFUEGO, es que lo que buscamos además de la eliminación del combustible entre nuestra posición y el frente principal, es que el frente que creamos nosotros sea absorbido por el frente principal por las corrientes de succión que…
There are now eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters at the fire in #Sidcup. A building under renovation is alight and producing a lot of smoke - please keep windows & doors closed & avoid the area where possible london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2025…
Y esto amigos,es una descarga de un avión pesado en un incendio forestal. Imaginad a cualquier persona ajena al dispositivo de extinción que este en la zona... Por eso insistimos tanto en que lo mejor que podéis hacer es buscar un lugar seguro. 6000l hacen daño,mucho.
Leaseholders' court victory over fire safety costs "A retrospective approach provides for effective routes to redress against those responsible for historical building safety defects that have only recently come to light” bbc.com/news/articles/…
I can understand the call for the UK and Europe installing more air-conditioning (it’s got hotter!) But, if that’s the case, there’s *also* the need to install more shading. This is social housing in Barcelona by the way…
Una cúpula de acero de 245 toneladas, más ancha que la de la catedral de San Pablo, ha sido colocada con precisión milimétrica sobre el edificio del reactor 2 de Hinkley Point C, en Reino Unido 🇬🇧 Lo ha hecho Big Carl, la mayor grúa de construcción terrestre del mundo: 96…
Fire safety laws due 10 years after Grenfell blaze bbc.com/news/articles/…
Heartbreaking to see more wildfire evacuations in Spain. Even more worrying: these evacuations are dire, triggered too late, when it is already dangerous to be outdoors. Early warning and preparedness save lives. bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c0…
Actuación de nuestros corsarios del @43grupo_ea en el incendio forestal de Méntrida #IFMéntrida Excelente labor, corsarios. ¡Apaga y… vámonos!
A fire has broken out on the Tomorrowland mainstage just one day before the festival is set to begin.
Have done a few presentations to 16/17 year olds on Grenfell in Sixth Forms. I've found erudite, engaged, curious and free thinking young minds, in a much higher frequency than when I was at that age. No problem with them getting the vote
Nuestros corsarios ya trabajan en la extinción del incendio forestal de Méntrida (Toledo) con 2 Canadair. #IFMéntrida
Oldest border in Europe. Over 800 years of history — unchanged since 1297.