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FIRE — a database on chemical warehouse fires

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 1994
In connection with an EC-funded research project concerning toxic effluents from chemical warehouse fires, a database containing detailed information on selected fire cases has been developed. This paper describes the database and gives examples of its application for identification of fire types, substances involved and fire products/smoke ...
Koivisto, Raija, Nielsen, Dan
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National Fire Protection Association

Motor Carrier Safety, 2020
Nfpa national fire protection association ansi webstore. national fire protection association hubbellcdn. national fire protection association nfpa rating system. list of nfpa codes and standards.
Yvonne Smith
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Fire Load, Fire Severity, and Fire Endurance

1970
A review is presented of fire studies beginning with the work of Ingberg at the National Bureau of Standards, who attempted to relate the severity of a fire endurance test in the laboratory to the conditions existing during actual building fires. He showed the importance of weight of combustibles per unit floor area as a major factor. He recognized the
A F Robertson, D Gross
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Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2019
Contemporary fire regimes of Canadian forests have been well documented based on forest fire records between the late 1950s to 1990s. Due to known limitations of fire datasets, an analysis of changes in fire-regime characteristics could not be easily ...
Chelene C. Hanes, Xianli Wang, P. Jain, M. Parisien, J. Little, M. Flannigan   +5 more
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On Fire, Under Fire, or Fired

On Fire, Under Fire, of Fired: Superintendents in the Pandemic provides a unique view into the unprecedented challenges and transformative opportunities superintendents faced during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the lessons that can be learned moving forward. In their own words, current and former superintendents reflect on
Kristi Wilson, Susan Enfield
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Fire Regimes, Fire Ecology, and Fire Management in Mexico

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2008
I propose several broad fire regimes and provide an analysis of fire ecology for the principal vegetation types in Mexico. Forty percent of Mexican ecosystems are fire-dependent (pine forests, several oak forests, grasslands, several shrublands, savannas, palm lands, wet prairies, "popal" and "tular" swamps), 50% are fire-sensitive (tropical rain ...
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"Fire": "Fire out"

Notes and Queries, 1907
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Fire! fire! fire! [fire that destroyed the James Clerk Maxwell home]

IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2013
It is 1929. A fire has started in the kitchen. The firemen come, but there is no water. All they can do is help carry furniture out of the house. After the fire fades and the extensive damage becomes apparent, the home is abandoned. Later attempts to preserve the remains fail.
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Fight fire with fire

Science Translational Medicine, 2015
A new drug kills cancer cells by hyperactivating oncogenes.
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

, 1987
G. Lakoff
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