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    Catching Fire

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    “Catching Fire”, the sequel to the popular dystopian book, “The Hunger Games”, by Suzanne Collins, might just be better than it’s predecessor. The story takes place in Panem, a country that was formed from the ashes after the United States faced calamities and is divided into twelve districts including the capitol. The main characters in this story are both Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, star-crossed lovers and survivors of the 74th Annual Hunger Games. Both Katniss and Peeta live in the…

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    Mr. Daniel Madrzykowski recently wrote an article on the dynamics of fire science dealing within the fire service. Firefighting dynamics focus on many points dealing with the chemistry of firefighting and the many changes that are involved with fire behavior and the products of combustion associated with each object(Madrzykowski, 2016). Controlling the growth of the fire and knowing what the fire is doing in a structure is a great tool for company officers to use during firefighting tactics…

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    Patrick Overby Case

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    new fire station in Omaha. Omaha’s Fire Department is designated to receive a completely new fire station in central Omaha, near the current fire station. I will conduct a formal cost-benefit analysis for Patrick’s project proposal. Patrick’s project objective is a simple plan to build a new fire station in the busiest area of Omaha. The main benefits of this project are to reduce operating costs from the old facility, update the technology within the firehouse, and reduce future fire loss…

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    9/11 Essay

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    Following the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11, the fire service has undergone a transformation in its response in order to avoid another disaster of this magnitude. The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City, New York identified new building design and construction concerns due to a terror event. On September 11, 2001, two commercial aircrafts intentionally crashed into the World Trade Center twin towers igniting jet-fuel-fed fires inside the structures. Due to the intense…

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    Transformed Into Fire

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    The first chapter of Transformed into Fire is titled “The Call to Communion”, which seems to be the main focus of this chapter. Hougen (2002) shares a couple of people’s stories through this chapter, each person’s story showed that they wanted to feel God’s love, not just hear/learn about it. She talks about the head and the heart; the head is about performance, and logic, while the heart is about experience, and feeling. She begins to explain the difference between communication, and communion.…

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    Introduction In health and safety management programmers students will procure information and frameworks important to oversee and control misfortune, to distinguish and secure against potential liabilities and to guarantee consistence of existing government and commonplace administrative prerequisites. The expanding need to ensure safety against accident or injuries and forestall any kind of harm and sickness makes this program immensely significant on the foundation of an organizational health…

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    Dry Barrel Hydrant Essay

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    The fire service has many roles in the community and one of those roles is being a fire inspector. In this scenario, one is the fire inspector for a municipal fire department and a newly planned community if being built. It is the fire inspector duties to ensure that the water supply system is being installed correctly. One will discuss the type of hydrants to be installed, explain why one pick that particular hydrant, state how the hydrants will be tested, and provide spacing requirement…

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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…

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    how water fire extinguisher works otherwise you will never be able to use the same in a proper way as a result of which satisfactory results cannot be gained. Water fire extinguisher has recently come up with a great variety of facilities that not only control fire but can be used with greater safety. They are quite different from other traditional devices and if you wish to collect more information about them, then the reviews can be checked. How these fire extinguishers work? Water fire…

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    Call That Changed My Life

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    The Call That Changed My Life I was 18 Years Old, brand new on Groveland Fire Department with only a few months of experience, I recently graduated High School, I recount a call that has forever changed who I was and made me into who I aspire to be. What you’re about to read will take you not only through my eyes, but my choices, my compassion & commitment to helping others, and the remorse that follows first responders with tragic events that the public rarely sees, knowing that despite you…

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