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    How to hook up to a fire hydrant and pull hose The first thing you need to know about hooking up to a hydrant is it’s the most critical thing at a fire. If you can’t get connected to a hydrant you have no water to put on the fire. So there’s a couple steps to this process. You need to know where your hydrant bag is. This bag includes everything you need to make the connection beside the hose. This include your hydrant wrench‚ your rubber mallet‚ your adapter to connect your storks to the hydrant

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    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Near closing time on Saturday afternoon‚ March 25‚ 1911‚ in New York City a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. One of the worst tragedies in American history it was know as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It was a disaster that took the lives of 146 young immigrant workers. A fire that broke out in a cramped sweatshop that trapped many inside and killed 146 people. This tragedy pointed out the negatives of sweatshop

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    “What is happening‚ Mallow‚” Marshy yells as she begins to get an even blurrier vision from the smoke that was coming up from the forest. Marshy and I are stuck in a dumb marshmallow bag in the Red forest of Ukraine while a forest fire is raging around us. Of course‚ this forest fire was caused by dumb campers who hadn’t taken their garbage to a trash can or put out their campfire which was electronic. Why can’t you just press the switch? The bag had an opening at the opposite end and I was stuck

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    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire I read the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling. It was a book filled with adventure‚ heartbreak and a few laughs. This is the fourth book in a series of seven books all telling the story of Harry Potter. It told an interesting story about a Wizarding world and the people inside of it. There was good and evil‚ happiness and sadness‚ and plenty of lessons to learn. Harry Potter is the main character of this novel. He has spiky

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    Nathan Hevle English B1A Professor Laura Peet 7 July 2013 Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires In a world that is being overrun by advancements in technology and mass media‚ society finds itself willingly trapped in a digital prison where people care less and less about the world. In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451‚ he describes a technological world where everyone basically lives through their televisions and other advanced devices‚ and is totally oblivious to

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    Nubia Clermont Chemistry Feb 27th‚ 2015 1. Detailed explanation of how smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors work. How do smoke detectors work? *Smoke alarms detect the smoke that comes from a fire; once it detects the smoke the smoke will trigger an alarm sound to ring off. The Ionization smoke detector detects smoke by sensing smoke particles. When these smoke particles pass through a chamber‚ it will absorb the alpha particles present from the alpha source. The smoke absorbing the alpha

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    the Great Chicago Fire was a disaster of devastation‚ and most likely the worst disaster of the 19th century. The tragedy killed more than 300 people and left more than 100‚000 people without homes. Not only did the conflagration take a human toll‚ but the fire caused 200 million dollars in property damage and decimated more than three square miles of the city of Chicago. Despite speculation on the true cause of the fire‚ Emily Upton describes natural factors that allowed the fire to become a monstrous

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    FC2 FIRE SAFETY PRACTICAL APPLICATION Summary fire risk assessment sheet FORM 3 Student name Location ***************** Student number ********* Date undertaken 22 / 6 / 13 ****************************** Assessment of risk of fire occurring – H/M/L with justification (this may be either by accident‚ by a possible act or omission or by an intentional act) There are a number of standard combustibles around the site all of which are not accessible to the public. There is an ongoing

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    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was the effect of mistakes that happened when trying to respond to a barn fire. The barn fire originated at the O’Leary Farm‚ when Mrs. O’Leary was milking a cow and the cow knocked over a lantern that Mrs. O’Leary placed on the ground for some light. Chicago “The Windy City”‚ had a vast amount of wood‚ coal‚ and other natural gasses‚ shipped in to build and and build fast because of the majority of people that were flocking in. Most buildings even with the most sturdy

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    am about to tell you about what happened in Chicago fire that happened 1871. It devastated a lot of people made 100‚000s of people homeless. What I think about the Chicago fire is that if it had happen any where else the people would had acted the same as the people in Chicago did. Now I will tell you what happened in Chicago. When William lee reached Goll’s drugstore‚ he was gasping for air and frantic. In his breathless voice lee requested the key to the alarm box that was mounted outside of

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