A Smell of Gas, Ignored: The Tbilisi Explosion That Should Never Have Happened
In Tbilisi's Didi Dighomi district, residents of a residential building smelled gas. They alerted the gas company. Before the leak was made safe, the building exploded. Four people were killed — inclu
01The Smell That Saves Lives: Gas Safety in Every Georgian Home
Natural gas heats and feeds millions of homes in Georgia. It is cheap and convenient — and, when it leaks, one of the deadliest hazards in the country. The good news: gas accidents are almost entirely
02Trying to Stay Warm: The Gudauri Tragedy and Winter's Hidden Killer
In December 2024, twelve people died in their sleep at the Gudauri ski resort. There was no fire, no flames, no warning — just a heater, a closed room, and an invisible gas.
03Heating Your Home Safely Through the Georgian Winter
Every Georgian winter brings the same quiet danger: the way we heat our homes. Heating is the season's leading cause of house fires — and of carbon-monoxide poisoning. Both are almost entirely prevent
04The Fire in the Walls: How Faulty Wiring Burned a Tbilisi Building
On Tevdore Mghvdeli Street in Tbilisi, fire tore through a four-storey building full of shops and warehouses. The cause was not a cigarette, a candle, or a stove. It was the wiring hidden inside the w
05The Danger in Your Walls: Preventing Electrical Fires in Georgia
Electrical fires are among the most dangerous of all, because they begin where you cannot see them — inside walls, sockets, and appliances — and often while everyone is asleep. In Georgia, where much
06Two Cars, One Collision, a Fire: A Tbilisi Crash That Could Happen to Anyone
In the Gldani district of Tbilisi, two cars collided — and within moments, both were ablaze. One person was injured. It is the kind of ordinary accident that happens on Georgian roads every day, and a
07Fire on the Road: How to Protect Your Car in Georgia
A car can go from a small fault to fully ablaze in under a minute. On a Georgian highway, the fire service may be a long way off — which means the first, decisive seconds belong to you. The good news:
08Alone When It Mattered Most: An Elderly Couple, a Fire, and a Lesson for Every Family
In the village of Mandaeti, in Chiatura, an elderly couple died together when fire broke out in their home. They were alone. It is, in part, a story of a long life shared to the very end — and also a
09The Most Vulnerable: Protecting Children and the Elderly from Fire
In a fire, seconds decide who survives — and the very young and the very old have the fewest seconds of all. Children may hide or freeze; the elderly may not wake, hear, or move in time. Protecting th
10When the Forest Burned: The 2017 Borjomi Fire and the Carelessness That Fuels Wildfires
In August 2017, fire broke out in the forests of the Borjomi Gorge — one of Georgia's most treasured natural areas. Driven by summer heat and high winds across steep, rugged terrain, it burned for two
11Fire in the Open: Preventing Outdoor and Wildfire Disasters in Georgia
Most wildfires don't begin with lightning. They begin with us — a careless moment outdoors that, in Georgia's hot, dry summers, can grow into a disaster within minutes.
12Eleven Lives, One Stairwell: What the 2017 Leogrand Hotel Fire Teaches Us About the First Minutes
On the night of 24–25 November 2017, fire broke out in the Leogrand Hotel & Casino in Batumi — a 22-storey, five-star building on Georgia's Black Sea coast. By the time it was over, eleven people were
13How Automatic Fire Balls Work
Learn how a Fire Ball automatically suppresses fires within 3-5 seconds of flame contact.
14Fire Safety Tips for Georgian Homes
10 practical tips to protect your home from fire hazards.
15The First 30 Seconds: What to Do in a Fire — and What Georgian Law Requires of You
When a fire starts, you do not have minutes to think. You have seconds. What you do in the first half-minute decides almost everything that follows. This guide covers two things every household and bu
16It Started at Home: Why an Ordinary Tbilisi House Fire Should Change How You Sleep Tonight
In December 2023, a fire broke out in a residential house on Sulkhanishvili Street in Tbilisi. One person died. (Source: Rustavi 2.) There was no factory, no warehouse, no crowd — just a home, like yo
17Fireproof Your Home: The Room-by-Room Guide Every Georgian Household Needs
Your home is the one place no law protects with alarms or evacuation plans — those rules apply to shops and offices, not private houses. At home, your safety is built entirely from the small choices y
18A Spark, Some Straw, and a Restaurant Gone in Minutes: The Taglaura Fire and the Speed of Kitchen Flames
One August evening in 2009, the popular Taglaura summer restaurant in Tbilisi's Didi Dighomi district almost completely burned to the ground. According to eyewitnesses, a spark from an open cooking fl
19The Kitchen Survival Guide: How to Cook Without Burning Down Your Home
The kitchen is where more fires start than any other room — at home and in business alike. It's the one place you mix open flame, high heat, hot oil and gas with towels, paper and packaging, often whi
20The Silent Killer of Gudauri: How 12 People Died in Their Sleep Without a Single Flame
In December 2024, twelve people died in Gudauri, one of Georgia's best-known ski resorts. There was no fire. No smoke alarm sounded because there was nothing to burn. They died from a gas they could n
21Carbon Monoxide: The Invisible Gas That Kills in Silence — And How to Stop It
Most people protect their homes against fire and smoke. Far fewer protect against the one fire-related danger they can't see, smell, or hear coming: carbon monoxide. It produces no flame and no smoke,
22A Roof on Fire, and Everyone Safe: What a 2023 Tbilisi Apartment Fire Teaches About Sharing a Building
On 16 August 2023, fire broke out on the roof of a residential building on Mtskheta Street in Tbilisi. Four fire brigades and ambulances were mobilised, the blaze was brought under control, and — the
23Living Safely in an Apartment Block: The Fire-Safety Guide for Shared Buildings
Most fire-safety advice imagines a single house. But a huge share of Georgians live in apartment blocks — and a shared building changes everything. Here, your safety is tied to your neighbours, to a s