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    The drought stricken lands of the Western states of America have been battling wildfires for so long that other nations have been extending their assistance to affected areas. The wildfires have been burning approximately 526,000 hectares of land across 10 US states, including California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. One of the badly hit drought-stricken western states is Idaho with 17 huge wildfires blazing since Friday followed by Washington, Oregon and California. The Canadian and American…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Candles Research Paper

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    ‘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…

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    Darwin Research Paper

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    can cost as much as 50 cents a night, a substantial amount of money considering most Haitians only make about 2 dollars a day. Besides cost, kerosene also has many negative health risks, specifically harmful fumes and the risk of broken glass and fire. Due to these factors, many Haitians do not have much if any space lighting in their homes at night. As a result, most residents go to bed early and cannot read, work or cook after 7pm (Brownell). 1.1.2 Demographics Darwin is the most densely…

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    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…

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    Serial Arson

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    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…

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    nothing that is unheard of when it comes to our country’s natural disasters. This specific wildfire was remarkable considering that it was the largest fire complex ever recorded in the Greater Yellowstone Area. It was the summer of 1988 when it actually occurred, and this area was dealing with a severe drought. The setting to create the perfect fire consisted of a wet spring where dry winds reached up to sixty miles per hour, a humidity level reaching as low as six percent, and deadwood lying…

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    Esf 4 Research Paper

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    Emergency Support Function 4 Firefighting (ESF 4) is an emergency support function that I am familiar with, having to write the one for the City that I work for. For the City of Groveland ESF 4 is the City of Groveland Fire Department. Support agencies are the other municipal fire departments, as well as, the Florida Forest service. The purpose of ESF 4 is to establish uniform procedures for effective coordination of emergency response and personnel assignments upon implementation of the…

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    corching the twisted, misaligned head of the phoenix, the flames devoured what was left of the jumbled paper creation, reducing it to nothing more than gray cinder joining the piles of ash lying in the crackling fireplace. As if orchestrated by a conductor, flickering lights played and danced off a pristine, crisp figure positioned on the dull wooden table set before the flames. With eyes of silver lightning, newly-folded Crane gazed upon the flames as the scene unfolded moment by moment. It…

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