Fremont Fire Department Established: January 23‚ 1956 Information Source: www.fremont.gov City type of Government: Council/ Manager Mayor: Bill Harrison City Manager: Fred Diaz Fire department Chief: Geoff LaTendresse Deputy Chiefs: Greg Dillingham‚ Gary Felix‚ and Ron Maize. Battalion Chiefs: Robin Brabb‚ Rich Dickinson‚ Jim Martin‚ Ron McCormick‚ Doug McKelvey‚ Tom Mulvihill. Training/ EMS division: Pat Kramm‚ Nurse Educator‚ Ron Maize‚ Deputy Fire Chief‚ Vic Taugher‚ Staff
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Fire and ice The world could possibly end in two ways. The author‚ if he had to perish twice would like to try both. Fire is desire and I think ice is equated to hate. I don’t think he necessarily thinks one has a greater destructive power than the other‚ but that his first choice would be fire/desire. This is because I think that the fire represents love. Both fire/desire and ice/hate can be extremes of emotions and the elements. Do you find it interesting that his last name is Frost?
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is china the country in history that built wall along its boundary. For example‚ The Hadrian’s Wall in northern England‚ built "to separate the Romans from the barbarians"‚ extended 117 kilometers. Even if other countries built amazing walls‚ the Great Wall of China was unique. The Great Wall was usually built with local materials‚ mostly earth and stones. After uniting China from seven Warring States‚ the first emperor of Qin Dynasty connected the walls of the three states in the north and formed
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Maldives rising sea levels Population: 309‚000 Birth rate: 22.5 per 1000 Death rate: 3.5 per 1000 Republic of Maldives lies in the Indian Ocean as one of the flattest countries in the world‚ it is extremely vulnerable to rising sea level and the possibility of the country underwater in this century. The maldives consists of 1‚190 islands‚ Given mid–level scenarios for global warming emissions‚ 17 the Maldives is projected to experience sea level rise on the order of 1.5 feet (half
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Rain of Fire In the article‚ “Rain of Fire”‚ Evan Thomas‚ assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine‚ wrote about the story from Virginia Dichiara‚ victim of September 11th incident. In brilliant morning of September 11th‚ DiChiara‚ a self-discribed workaholic‚ somehow felt moseying; so she left home at 7:40am which was 40 minutes later than her usual morning routine. Inside On 78th floor of World Trade Center‚ DiChiara switched to the second elevator which leaded her 101th floor where her
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2014 The Principle of Surviving The term surviving means different things to different people. The definition of surviving means to remain healthy‚ happy‚ and unaffected in spite of an occurrence or struggle. In the story ’To Build a Fire’ by Jack London‚ the main character is seen as a survivor; or a person who is unaffected by an endeavor. He has the skirmish with nature in this story‚ and he loses that battle. He doesn’t meet his objective of reaching the cabin in Henderson Creek
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I began reading Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror without doing any pre-reading about the subject of the play or the author. When I read over the long list of "characters" for the play‚ I thought I would never be able to keep up with who’s who. Before beginning to read the first scene‚ I was unaware that the play was a succession of verbatim monologues from real people. I thought‚ "Wow‚ this is different." Honestly‚ I have probably read about the Crown Heights riots beforein fact I probably
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The fire within is a non-fiction children’s book. Written by Chris d’Lacy this quirky book also includes a bit of fantasy and drama. It is set in present time with the main character being a young man about 20 who is a lodger with a small family that consists of Liz‚ the mother and Lucy‚ the hyperactive imaginative little seven year old girl. As soon as David (the lodger) enters the home he knows there is something a little weird about this family because no normal family he knows of has clay models
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To Build a Fire The bone-chilling cold in To Build a Fire effects the main character‚ an unnamed man‚ and inevitably kills him. The unnamed man takes his chances in the wilderness by himself‚ with a half wild dog‚ even when told not to by an old prospector. The extremely cold temperature effects the basic motor function of his extremities. At 50 degrees below zero your hands will start to get frost bite and start to become nonfunctional. The man was taking his gloves off every once in a while
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Steven Pressfield’s The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B.C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians‚ saving Greece. Pressfield creates a fictional story around the battle where one man‚ a squire named Xeones‚ survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones‚ who is the protagonist‚ tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in captivity
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