Reichstag Fire Decree

Today i’m going to tell how you to properly start and stop an oxyacetylene cutting torch. An oxyacetylene cutting torch is a device used to cut through metal, and uses both Oxygen and Acetylene. They can produce a very large amount of heat. First off, anytime you use the torch in the shop you must always wear your personal safety equipment, such as a long sleeve shirt, pants, boots, safety glasses, and gloves. If you’re not real sure on what you need to wear, ask your teacher. You must…

will develop new skills, experience good things and bad things, and you will be adopted into a close knit second family. As we all know, or the majority of us know, firefighters are a pretty unique bunch on individuals. Throughout your time in the fire service you will experience many different things, and because of these experiences you will develop a whole new set of senses, and look at many aspects of life differently. You will begin to notice over time, that even the slightest things that…

when a tragic fire broke out in the restaurant known as “The Deli” as a result of a ground fault in the wall killing 85 people. A major contributor to the deaths was combustible furnishings, interior finishes, foam padding and moldings, air supply, and a very large undivided area that allowed for rapid fire spread and heavy smoke. Construction of the hotel and casino began in 1972 and was opened in December 1973. With approximately two million square feet of area only partial fire sprinkler…

For years, the American fire service thought that the number one killer of firefighters were heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies, due to the high number of them and the physical stress of firefighting. The American public probably thinks of the number one killer of firefighters to be thermal injuries or structural collapses. Surprisingly, the most powerful enemy to the fire service, a silent but deadly one, is cancer. When I first started as a Firefighter, a short nine years ago,…

The Fire Fighter I choose to interview for my term project is Andrew Huizinga I picked him because I work at Fitness 19 and we’ve talked about me becoming a fire fighter and he has given me a lot of advice on what to do. Andrew was in the coast guard for 4 years then he went to school for engineering at Cal Poly. The first set of questions I asked Andrew were about the fire academy and why he wanted to become a fire fighter. The first question I asked Andrew was when and why did he decided to…

Program Introduction The Texas Fire Chiefs Recognition Program is a voluntary process where fire departments in Texas prove their compliance with Texas fire service’s current Best Practices. These Best Practices were carefully developed by Texas Fire Service professionals to assist departments in the efficient and effective delivery of service and the protection of individual’s rights. The Texas Fire Chiefs Association developed the Recognition Program to assist Texas departments in meeting…

Who is really responsible for the Triangle Factory Fire? On March 25th, 1911 one of the world’s worst fire accidents was the day that the Triangle Factory was burned down. According to the young women who survived the fire, what caused the fire was that a few smokers within the building dropped a cigar into a waste basket full of scraps that were flammable and the fire spread out of control throughout the whole building. When the rescue teams and the police arrived to the scene, they estimated…

The prevention of fire hazards in the workplace requires the use of two approaches i.e. fire risk assessment and implementation of best practices towards promoting fire safety in the working environment. The use of these approaches should be accompanied with compliance with legal requirements regarding occupational health and safety. The organization should examine state and federal laws regarding occupational health and safety, particularly fire safety and develop and implement policies and…

I will be commenting on how my department has changed and resisted change in the past ten years by showing case effect through these three factors socialisation by the fire hall, Fire chief personality and fire department goals. The Bathurst fire department has always been a social club and since it was a composite department many of our members came from every walk of life as volunteers, we had mill workers, news anchors ,managers of companies just to name a few. And most of these members had…

victims and communities return to normal following domestic incidents” (Public Health Emergency, 2015). ESF #4 encompasses all aspects of firefighting but is more focused on larger scale types of emergencies requiring a Federal firefighting response. Fire…