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Both fire extinguishers and smoke detectors were created before the Triangle Fire in 1911. In the nonfiction story Flesh and Blood So Cheap, author Albert Marrin uses both explicit and implicit to help him justify his theme that unsafe practices led to the Triangle Fire, which showed that workers lives’ were not a priority. Nobody knows how the fire started, but some say that it started with a cutter flicking hot ash or someone tossed a live cigarette into a scrap bin. There were 146 people who…

and Dorita Castro essential skills for being a public safety professional. Firefighting, a dangerous process of extinguishing fire and providing adequate medical assistance in some cases, is a demanding field that few are brave enough to sign up for. To take on the responsibility to protect lives and prevent destruction of property, the men and woman of Quartzsite Fire and Rescue (QF&R) bequeath themselves as team players of an utmost self sacrificial organization. Chief Kevin Hess of QF&R…

In the early 1900’s, were there legitimate ways to prevent fires like we do today? Albert Marrin’s non-fiction story, “Flesh And Blood So Cheap” uses both explicit and implicit evidence and examples in his excerpt to convey his theme that The Triangle Fire that took place in 1911 was caused by many unsafe practices and standards, which led to 146 deaths in the large fire. Fortunately, this fire prompted people to want to work for reforms to improve safety standards which we still use to this day…

CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871 Chicago was a booming community with some of the finest and most modern building in the country, 59,500 buildings to be exact. Although some of those building were built from stone or brick and proclaimed fireproof. “Chicago was, in fact, a city of wood… The nearby forests of Michigan and Wisconsin made that material both inexpensive and easily obtainable.” Around two- thirds of Chicago’s building and houses were made of flammable wood. On October 8, 1871 a disastrous fire…

impossible. While the extinguish works are going on, A meeting was held on deck between Ship and Dockyard officers. Several arguments happened but no decision came out. No one is sure about their Ideas. At 15:00hours around 50-60 hoses are in action of extinguishing but in vain as the fire is unable to control. Still captain is in hope of saving the ship when people asked the ship to tug off from the shore. so it was standing where she was. Several facilities are lagged because of war-time but…

Female Firefighters: Women in the Fire Service Female firefighters have been a fairly recent addition to the fire service. Firefighting was thought to be a man’s job. Since the Civil Rights Movement, female firefighters are becoming more and more common even though they currently only consist of about 3% of the entire fire service. The acceptance and proper treatment of female firefighters has been difficult over the past 50 years, but they continue to make headway. Gender bias and sexual…

extending from the clouds to the ground in a funnel shape. A firenado is a whirlwind Induced by fire that sucks in burning debris and often Combustible gasses like gasoline and natural gasses that fuels the fire. The gasses…

abnormalities to the arsonists have been focused on sexual motivation for firesetting. This psychiatric flaw has been linked to urination, homosexuality and cruelty to animals in the childhoods of firesetters have all been documented. Those who set fires other than for profit are frequently called pyromaniacs. In the first research article, Firesetters Admitted to a Maximum Security Psychiatric Institution published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence in…

in the fire service is having the right skills to do the job. Firefighting is a very dangerous career; not understanding the right skills can lead to severe injury or death. Knowing the right guidelines on building construction…

Gerald Lawrence 12/13/16 The National Fire Protection Association is a United States trade association, albeit with some international members, that creates and maintains private, copyrighted standards and codes for usage and adoption by local governments. It is also know as saving as many lives as possible. NFPA has played a great role in fire preventing for over then 10 years now. Standard 25 is the standard that will be the one that is highlighted in this essay. The NFPA 25 the…