Fire Safety Essay

There are three conditions that need to be present in order for a wildfire to burn, which firefighters refer to as the fire triangle: fuel, oxygen, and a heat source. Fuel is any flammable material surrounding a fire, including trees, grasses, brush, even homes. The greater an area's fuel load, the more intense the fire. Air supplies the oxygen a fire needs to burn. Heat sources help spark the wildfire and bring fuel to temperatures hot enough to ignite. Lightning, burning campfires or…

resist carrying out fire setting, despite potentially negative or harmful consequences. The presence of several episodes of intentional and purposeful fire setting characterize this disorder. Individuals with this disorder usually experience emotional arousal and tension prior to the act of setting a fire. Individuals with pyromania have a fascination with, interest in, or attraction to fire in several contexts (e.g., paraphernalia and consequences). They may set off fire alarms in stores and…

This is all happening while firefighters struggle to put out a deadly, devastating fires in Spain and Portugal. At least 35 people have died as strong hurricane winds swept hundreds of fire across northern Spain and Portugal. Authorities have declared states of emergency in areas that have been affected, and over 500 fires have been recorded. As of Monday morning, October 16, thousands of firefighters fight 63 fires. Relief is needed, and is achieved when rain starts to dump on the areas,…

Another important factor in renovating a house is safety, is it safe to do it without a professional. Most of these projects according to lifehacker Melanie Pinola, suggest that anything that involves main electrical lines and natural gas pipes. These need to be done by a professional so the house doesn't burn down are a explosion. Another project that might has to be avoided is any plumbing work so the house doesn't flood which will back up the renovation for a long time and can even ruin…

I've already seen my goals and my vocabulary to answer this lesson question. How can I write an effective argument for or against using planned fires to protect wild areas? To answer this lesson question, I begin by learning about the writing process. The first step in the writing process pre-writing, in which you'll plan out how to write a convincing argument about the best way to protect wild areas. As part of the pre-writing stage, I'll investigate this topic and form a claim. First I want to…

lead to instability in local labor markets by amplifying seasonal variation in employment over the subsequent year.” (The Economic Impacts of Large Wildfires). Wildfires can’t continue forever near that WUI community; there will be a time when the fire goes out. Due to the fact that wildfires can’t always be burning around the community means the increased revenue for the community and people is unpredictable and unstable which leads to an unstable market. Unstable markets leads to unstable…

To start off my hypothesis is, if a lighter colored candle has more entrapped air then it will burn quicker because they have less wax. I got this idea from engineering.com and my mom. I thought that this experiment would be fun because if I could prove it was correct then darker color candle would be a better option to buy because they will last longer. Next, the purpose of this experiment is to show if color affects the amount of time a candle burns. Going back to what I said in the paragraph…

‘Candle’ is taken from candere, which means to shine in latin. An approximation of candle retail sales is about $2 billion annually. The united States economy is growing much slower than the candle industry. Women are much more likely to buy candles, 96% to be exact. It is also proven that most people that use candles burn them for about three hours at a time. Candles have a lot of history, can be made of different waxes, and burn because of combustion. In 3,000 B.C., the Egyptians had…

carbon atom covalently double bonded with 2 oxygen atoms it fixated it as carbon in the body of the plant, in tern when plants fixate more carbon especially in woody materials it created more dense fuel for fires. When this occurs the plant use the extra carbon it becomes even more prone to becoming fire fuel once it falls of the tree and collects beneath. This means basically that when there is increased amount of carbon dioxide when it is absorbed into the biosphere there is an increase in…

the dwelling of another. A serial arsonist is someone who compulsively sets fires. 25% of all fires started are arson. On average, arson causes $2 billion dollars in property. 700 lives are lost a year due to arson. Most arsonists are male, only about 10% of arsonists are females. Children are the culprits of about 50% of fires. Of the children, 70% of them are under 10. In 2010 the average dollar amount lost for a fire set $17,612. There are different common characteristics of serial arsonists…