The 1942 Cocoanut Grove Fire Nicole Parris Columbia Southern University Summary The Cocoanut Grove fire was a major fire that happened in Boston‚ Massachusetts back on November 28‚ 1942. It was famous because of the amount of people in which were killed (490) and injured (166). It was one of the worst disasters that happened in Boston until the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon in 2013. Main Points The main points of the article were that many patrons couldn’t
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Fire investigations were tricky back in the 1970s. While fire investigators were required to be up-to-date to fire science and must upheld a certain standard of knowledge in what to look for to determine whether or not a fire-related incident is arson‚ being “up-to-date” in science‚ especially back in the 70s‚ does not mean courts will always come to the correct conclusions. In my first position paper where I explored the history of fire investigations and concluded why fire science is important
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Image of Fire in “Fahrenheit 451” In “Fahrenheit 451‚” firefighters rush to homes and start fires‚ rather than prevent them. Ray Bradbury’s story depicts a futuristic society where fire has become the matter of a significant dispute. On one side‚ fire is seen as almost a cleansing tool used to purify the thoughts of ordinary citizens by protecting them from reading “dangerous” works of writing by burning all copies of forbidden books. The government tells its people that reading books
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Blood with fire can symbolize many things to the world‚ but to Haiti it means something special. The words wings of fire are brought up in the book‚ especially in section 1937. This can be compared to the legendary bird of fire the phoenix who rise from the ashes after burning to its death. “She glowed red when she came out‚ blood clinging to her skin‚ which at that moment looked as though it were in flames.” pg 42. What had happened in this quote that gave it meaning was when the narrator asked
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Fire Detection and Suppression Systems Author Institution Fire Detection and Suppression Systems Saponification has other uses other than soap making. It is used in firefighting. In commercial cooking industries‚ fire fighters use saponification to combat cooking-oils-fires. Cooking-oil-fires are difficult to suppress using other extinguishers. Using saponification‚ cooking-oil-fire extinguishers use a wet chemical that forms soapy foam on the oil fire quickly putting out the
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INTRODUCTION: The Ring of fire (figure 1) is a horse shoe shaped fault line. This fault line is prone to Earth quakes and volcanic eruptions. The ring of fire Is home to 452 volcanoes and 75% of the worlds dormant and active volcanoes live on the Ring. PLATE TECTONICS Plate tectonics is a theory that the earth is split up in to different areas of the world. They glide on the mantle of the earth the plates act like a hard ridged shell (fig 2 plate tectonics) Some of the plate tectonics move very
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Transitional Fire Attack Strategy & Tactics - 2014 Final Exam By: Garrett Christian A transitional fire attack is a combination of both defensive and offensive techniques that can only be used in very specific situations. It is widely known as a “quick knockdown from the exterior with a straight stream directed off the ceiling to hold a fire in check‚ and allows firefighters to perform an offensive fire attack under safer conditions for victims and for the fire attack crew”. The transitional fire attack
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STUDENT COMPETENCY IN FIRE-RISER TRAINING: A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE OSU SCHOOL OF FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGY Prepared for: Ms. Rose Mangold‚ Technical Program Coordinator Prepared by: Chris Davis Shane Aquino Chris Baldwin Matt Carlquist 28 March 2013 Distribution List: Mr. Floyd Luinstra Lab Director Dr. Leslie Fife‚ Technical Writing ABSTRACT Improving student competency in fire-riser training is the goal of this report. The report analyzes the current fire-riser training process’
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building a fire is gathering the driest wood for the fire. You have to have enough tinder‚ twigs‚ and wood. The wood shouldn’t be wet or live. Using wet or live materials for fire starting will result in more smoke than fire‚ so leaves shouldn’t be in the fire at all costs. To test whether the wood is good for fire or not; make sure that when you break the wood‚ it breaks cleanly. If the wood bends‚ it is not good for burning. The second step is to clear the ground in a circle where your fire will be
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Introduction In this paper‚ we are going to continue investigating Amazon Kindle Fire‚ the newest tablet in the market. It is interesting to analyze this to the strongest competitor‚ Apple iPad. We will discuss what kind of category Kindle Fire belongs to‚ how is its product life cycle and its branding strategy. And we will take a look at what distribution strategy it applies‚ what the pricing strategy is as well as its promotion strategy. Finally‚ we will make some recommendations to Amazon Kindle
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