I have chosen to write my paper on a fire that occurred on February 4th‚ 2007 and was initially reported at 0934 in a small town in Pennsylvania. The weather at the time of the incident included a high temperature of fourteen degrees‚ with a low of three degrees. Winds were between ten and twenty miles per hour and there were gusts up to thirty miles per hour. This fire killed one firefighter a 27 year old male with approximately thirteen total years experience twelve and a half of those being
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The Reichstag fire The Reichstag fire took place on February 27th 1933. The Reichstag building was where Germany’s parliament sat. On the night of February 27th Hitler and Goebbels were having dinner at Goebbel’s Berlin home. Just after 21.00‚ Goebbels received a phone call from Dr. Hansfstaengl that the Reichstag building was on fire. Goebbels later claimed that he felt the news was so fanciful that he did not inform Hitler even though he was in the same house. It was only when he received another
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FIRE TRIANGLE In order to understand how fire extinguishers work‚ you first need to know a little bit about fire. Four things that must be present at the same time in order to produce a fire : * Enough oxygen to sustain combustion. * Enough heat to raise the material to its ignition temperature. * Some sort of fuel or combustible material. * The chemical‚ exothermic reaction that is fire. Take a look at the following diagram called the “Fire Triangle”. Oxygen‚ heat‚ and fuel
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Secrets in the fire Sofia’s story is set in Mozambique‚ where civil war is raging. villages are set alight and no one‚ not even the dogs‚ are spared. As rebels are given arms‚ it is civillians such as children like Sofia‚who suffer the sharp blade of war. Sofia survived the attrocities‚ yet experienced such trauma that no child should have to endure. Set against the natural innoncence of a child’s sense of what is just and unjust-the questions -and answers Sofia asks bring us back to the powerful
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Jennifer Satterlee Humanities 121 Women in Arts‚ Culture‚ and Societies August 6‚ 2013 How Others Help: Organizations from Half the Sky Today‚ we often are bombarded with upsetting stories of violence and politics happening throughout the world on the internet‚ our daily televised news stations‚ the radio‚ and in newspapers and articles that we read. In the book Half the Sky‚ written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn‚ true stories regarding the horrific reality young girls and women are
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1. If you were Hudson‚ how would you respond to the director? If I was Hudson I would start with thanking the director for giving Hudson the chance to explain himself and change his decision. Then I would proceed on explaining the benefits of retaining him. I would start by pointing out that even though staff opinion is important‚ in this case the Mr. Ahmet Green needs to look at the output of this project. Even after a few initial hiccups overall the project was a success. Because he decided to
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Project 2 The Furniture Fire Case Presented by Group 1 Joey Oviedo‚ Sean Bannon‚ Abraham In 1992‚ an accidental fire destroyed a furniture company’s warehouse in Tampa‚ FL. Upon these findings‚ the furniture company made a claim to their insurance company for demand of lost profits. In doing so‚ the furniture company submitted a profit calculation‚ or the GPF‚ of the burned inventory. There no sales receipts and the prices were unknown conveniently
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May 20‚ 2013 Fire Fatality- Rodney Paul Miller They are on call at all hours. They get pulled out of their warm‚ safe beds in the middle of the night to respond to fires‚ crashes‚ floods and other emergencies. They venture out in all kinds of weather‚ blizzards‚ torrential downpours‚ unbearable heat. They save people lives in many cases‚ the lives of people who are not exactly innocent victims‚ whose foolishness puts their own and others lives in danger. They are quite simply heroes‚ typically
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References Fire extinguishers types.(n.d.). Retrieved fromhttp://www.fireextinguisher101.com/ Nadar‚k. (2010‚ December 2). Fire Extinguishers. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fire_extinguisher Merriam-Webster. (2004)‚ The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. In New York: A fire extinguisher is a portable container usually filled with chemicals for putting out fires. (Merriam-Webster‚ 2004) An active fire protection device used to extinguish or control fires. Fire extinguishers
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Catching Fire is the second book of the Hunger games‚ The main characters are Katniss‚ a beautiful strong young 17 year old who is very outspoken and courageous. Peeta‚ A generous young man that is in love with Katniss‚ and Gale‚ Haymich‚ President snow and Prim katniss’s younger sister‚ ect. The book takes place in Districts‚ and the capitol for the games which is a big open field in the wild forests where they fight for their own survival. Suzanne Marie Collins is an American television
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