Firefighting

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• Combat Fire Engagement

  
  The Kitchen Table — Authority: 124
  It’s no longer just brute force and sheer physical determination that define structural fire suppression operations. Aggressive firefighting must be redefined and aligned to the built environment and associated with goal oriented tactical operations that are defined by risk assessed and analyzed tasks that are ...
  1 day ago

• Fireman Starts Firefighting Gear 365 Blog

  
  Press About — Authority: 163
  A California firefighter has started a Firefighting Gear blog. As opposed to ten years ago, firefighters are much better equipped and technologically sophisticated. Use this blog to stay abreast of wildland firefighting gear, Globe firefighting gear, European firefighting gear and more!Phoenix, AZ, December 04, 2009 ...
  2 days ago

• How community theater can help YOU lose 15 pounds in 5 days!

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 140
  So tonight we had the fourth performance of Theatre Guild of Rockingham Countys production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. That was four performances we did on this first day of the show (mostly for elementary students). We dont take to the stage again until tomorrow night at 7:30.A lot of people in the cast and ...
  2 days ago

• Amatoya Firefighting ATV – New Approach To Firefighting

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  AmatoyaAmatoya is a concept reconnaissance and suppression vehicle that gives us a new approach to fire-fighting. This highly advanced and specialized light tanker functions primarily as a reconnaissance vehicle and offers unmatched vehicle and crew safety/survivability. It promises to be the best front line defense ...
  2 days ago

• Firefighting ATV Concept: Twin Water Cannons, Gull Wing Doors [Concepts]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 884
  Dubbed the Amatoya, this concept recon buggy would allow a two-person crew to zip around hotspots and fire fronts to collect intel faster, and more safely than the modified Toyota Landcruisers and...
  2 days ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  2 days ago

• Ford Amatoya concept

  
  0-60mag.com — Authority: 573
  Ok, upon first glance we thought this was some sort of new robocop/terminator fighting machine. And we won’t lie, we were a little saddened when we heard that the only ammo the Amatoya packs is water. But think about it–how fun were super soakers? Multiply that by about a thousand, then mount that to a NASA gel ...
  4 days ago

• The Amatoya: Meet the next generation of fire fighting vehicles

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 756
  Filed under: Concept Cars , Specialty , Design/Style Amatoya Reconnaissance and Suppression Vehicle - Click above for image gallery Designer Liam Fergusons vision of how to fight fires almost makes us wish we were firemen - as long as we could have the keys to one of these. The Amatoya is a site recon ...
  4 days ago

• China Sector ETFs To Arrive Tomorrow

  
  Random Roger — Authority: 472
  Probably. I was advised that the GlobalX China Consumer ETF (CHIQ) and the GlobalX China Industrial ETF (CHII) will start trading on December 1. An initial look under the hood makes a good first impression in terms of these capturing what I had hoped they would when I first mentioned the filing--that is the story on ...
  5 days ago

• Ten Days of Solo Parenting Thanks to the Fire Life

  
  Stop, Drop and Blog — Authority: 129
  This morning, FireDad gave me a kiss at his usual departure time when he’s working his normal shift day. Except he won’t return until Friday evening. And then he’ll leave again on Monday morning, coming home again the following Friday night. That’s right. I’m solo parenting for ten days thanks to the fire ...
  5 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  6 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  1 week ago

• Thankless, part 2

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  Ah, Thanksgiving in L.A. —you can’t beat it. It’s 82, dry, and breezy—or as it’s known here in Southern California, “red flag weather.” The hills are still the color of wheat ale, and parched. No rain to speak of yet. And while the rest of the country is knee-deep in amber autumn leaves or even ...
  1 week ago

• Is it Still Business as Usual?

  
  The Kitchen Table — Authority: 124
  Weve taked about a few things recently such as looking at the big picture  related to buildings and occupancies and the functional parameters dealing with size-up and risk assessment . Then theres the  dialog and discussion on the Predictability of Performance related to buildings and occupancies. Back in ...
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• Fire in Fyshwick

  
  The RiotACT — Authority: 148
  Anyone who’s ventured from the safe confines of their airconditioned office or home today would not at all be surprised to hear we’ve got fire. What you might be surprised to hear that its in Fyshwick. The RiotACT all seeing eye, not least of which has been supported on this occasion by Snarky, Localgirl, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Your Place, part 5: Cat Lady

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  “Ok, Ma’am…how about you just come on outside, here… ” (… because there’s no friggin’ way we’re coming in there. Just standing here on your porch, we can smell the distinct, sharp ammonia bite of cat pee. How many do you have in there? A dozen? Two dozen? As you stand here in your doorway ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Friday Gadget: The Recon Scout Rescue Miniature, Mobile Reconnaissance Device

  
  HorizonWatching — Authority: 124
  Here’s a simple looking device with a wireless-transmitting camera that can go where people can’t…or where it is safe to go. The Recon Scout® Rescue is a miniature, mobile reconnaissance device that will add greater safety and speed to search...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s Not My Fault; It was On Fire When I Got Here (Your Place, part 4)

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  I know you think I didn’t do enough to stop this. That we didn’t get here fast enough. And after we arrived, we didn’t act quickly enough. Pausing to tug on the rest of our gear, pull heavy hose off the rig, drag it around the corner of the house, bust in the kitchen door. And now it’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• BLACK FIREFIGHTER ASSOCIATION SUES FIREFIGHTERS UNION

  
  First In — Authority: 131
  In a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, an organization of African-American firefighters accused the Philadelphia firefighters union of being “racially harassing and abusive” to blacks.You can read the rest of this garbage here: LinkI am not going to get into a lengthy blow-by-blow about how fraudulent this entire ...
  3 weeks ago

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