Fire protection

The Great Chicago Fire was one of the most horrible disasters in history. The incident was when the city of Chicago experienced a horrible spread of fire from an unknown source. Before the fire, Chicago was a huge city that was mostly made out of a very flammable type of wood, and during the time the city had not gotten any rain, and the winds caused the fire to spread even faster. The fire was said to be started at Catherin O’Leary’s barn, and many people say that it started when she was…

“Its amazing how the earth tells us that its alive, that it moves and changes like any living organism.” - Dr Alberto M. Lopez. It is inevitable. It will be destructive. The “Big One” is going to happen and all we can do is prepare. The “Big One”, aka the San Andreas Fault in California, is one of the most famous landmarks of the United States today. It is the longest, most active fault line in the world. Scientist have been predicting a major quake to rupture from it and its due for its deadly…

Mt. St. Helens is a stratovolcano part of a group of volcanoes called The Ring of Fire. These are created from the convergence/subduction between the Juan De Fuca plate and the North American plates. Its most common type of eruption is intermediate eruptions, which is what the composition was in its most recent eruption. Mt. St. Helens most recently erupted on May 18, 1980. An earthquake right under the mountain caused an enormous landslide/avalanche going close to 150 mph. A huge hazard from…

On September 27, 2014 Japan’s Mount Ontake erupted catching everyone by surprise, including over 250 hikers at the resorts and shrines on the peak. In contrast recently everyone around the globe was able to track the eruption by Iceland’s Bardarbunga due to a web of advanced technology, allowing them to even track where the magma was underground. Japan has a very similar array but was unable to predict Ontake’s eruption. This is due to the fact that it was what is called a phreatic eruption, or…

Mount Fuji is a volcanic mountain situated in Japan, south-west of Tokyo on the largest island, Honshu. It’s longitude is 35.3606° and its latitude is 138.7278°. It is over 3.7 kilometers tall, making it the highest volcano in Japan. The last confirmed eruption of Mount Fuji, was on the 15th of December 1707. It is still an active volcano. In 2014 there was speculation that it would erupt because of the pressure from the 2011 earthquake which reached 9.0 on the Richter scale. Mount Fuji was not…

If you are not a fan of this incredible series of books – which rivals Tolkien at his most inventive – then I have to ask why not? Perhaps that telling comment from wicked queen Cersei Lannister to the unfortunate Lord Eddard Stark – When you play the game of thrones, either you win or you die. There is no middle ground – in many ways sums up very well the scope of the subterfuge, betrayal and outright courage that is the monumental that is the fantasy world not that far removed from our own, in…

One of my favorite shows on television today is the adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, which has since been popularized today and commonly referred to as the HBO-designed title for the series, A Game of Thrones. The show does an exceptional job of coupling dramatic events with real world applications, which says a lot for a show regarded as a fantasy series by critics. Throughout the show there are certainly several different political implications that are…

Arguments continue today about whether George R.R Martin was correct when he said "Different roads can lead to the same castle" in the Game of Thrones. In the movie, when he said this quote, there was invading armies that were on the outskirts of the city wall and Martin was spreading the army to different roads that lead to the same castle. However, this has raised lots of controversy about wherher or not Marin's quote is applicable in real life as well. Martin's quote can be germane in real…

ensure that staff members had taken a safeguarding training before getting the job and to create a good safeguarding politicise to follow and make sure that everyone are award of them. One common way to ensure safeguarding and duty of care is to install fire alarms in all the building in case of blaze. Is in our responsibility as carers to ensure that everyone is behaving in the right way,…

resulted from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was the creation a nine member commission dubbed the Factory Investigation Commission (FIC). Following the fire, a superficial investigation was completed and it was found that there were conditions in factories and manufacturing establishments that constituted a daily menace to the lives of the thousands of working men, women, and children. It was also found that there was a lack of fire prevention, inadequate fire escapes, sanitary conditions…