Fire Training Mishap

Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010 and filed under fire training | 24 Comments »

fire training gone horribly wrong.

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R.I. District To Fire All Teachers

Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010 and filed under fire chief | No Comments »

Rhode Island Education Commissioner
Deborah Gist has approved a school district’s plan to fire all its
teachers.

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Fire at industrial park in East Spokane

Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010 and filed under fire department | No Comments »

Firefighters cautiously fought a fire Thursday morning in the 4000 block of East Main because of the treat that the structure could collapse.

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Simplex Fire Alarm Testing

Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010 and filed under fire alarm | 25 Comments »

Clip while testing signals from a Simplex 2001 and a Simplex 4020 fire panel that are tied together. Some of the old horns are not working properly.
If for some reason you can’t get the video to load, that’s not my problem so don’t bother leaving a comment whining about it.

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Fire Marshall Bill in National Fire Safety Week Jim Carrey

Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010 and filed under fire safety | 25 Comments »

Fire Marshall Bill in National fire Safety Week

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Friendly Fires “Paris” Directed by Price James

Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010 and filed under fires | 25 Comments »

“Paris” by Friendly fires

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Should I use my fire extinguisher if I am gonna recharge it?

Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2010 and filed under fire inspection | 5 Comments »

My fire extinguisher is due for inspection. Should I use it for practice and have it recharged or better to have it inspected in full charge condition? Thanks.

Why do you need to recharge it? The fire extinguisher company who insects your extinguisher, checks to see if it is fully charged, mechanical parts in working order etc. They will discharge the extinguisher and empty the contents every 6 years to perform Hydrostatic testing of the cylinder anyways.

On the other hand if you want to play with your extinguisher and have some fun go ahead. If you don’t mind paying to have your extinguisher refilled.

Two fire look out stations are 20 miles apart with station B east of station A. Both station spot a fire?

Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2010 and filed under fire station | 3 Comments »

The bearing of the fire from station A is N 60 degrees east. The bearing of the fire from station B is North 40 degreese west. How far is it from station a to the the fire?

N 60° E means "60° east of north"
N 40° W means "40° west of north"

It helps if you draw a triangle.

If you draw vertical lines on either side of the triangle, you can see that the exterior angle of A is 60 degrees, so the inner angle must be 30.

The exterior angle of angle B is 40, so the inner angle is 50 degrees.

All the interior angles add up to 180 degrees, so angle C is 100 degrees.

A = 30 degrees
B= 50 degrees
C = 100 degrees
a = ?
b = ?
c = 20 miles

Now you can use the Rule of Sines to solve the rest.

a/sinA = b/sinB = c/sinC

b/sinB = 20/sin100

b = (20sin50)/sin100

b is about 15.57 miles

Using the same rule, a was about 10.2 miles.

Anyway the answer was 15.57 miles rounded up to 16.

What size fire extinguishers do you need to put out a fire under the hood of a passenger car?

Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2010 and filed under fire | 3 Comments »

I’ve heard that the 1.5 lb systems are useless while the 5lb ones are bulky. What’s a reasonable size fire extinguisher to carry in a passenger car?

I believe that cars should carry type ‘B’ extinguishers. Any suggestion for makes and type of chemical to look for?

given the high temps grease and fuels go with the 5lb, but plan on needing the fire dept. Defently an abc dry chem.

Where can i buy ‘FIRE & RESCUE’ printed t shirts?

Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2010 and filed under fire rescue | 2 Comments »

Prefer to have the words ‘fire & RESCUE’ in big on the back? UK Please

All over the interenet. You can have custom made shirts created.