Two firefighters were taken to a hospital after a small explosion while they were battling a fire on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Fire Department was called to the 1800 block of ...

Dayton firefighters were forced to jump out of the way when a backdraft knocked chunks of drywall down during a firefighting operation. The backdraft happened after firefighters arrived at a burning ...

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 ...