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  2. Fire lane - Wikipedia

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    A fire lane on 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in New York City.. A fire lane is a pavement reserved for fire and rescue services. [1] [2] Dedicated fire lanes primarily appear in urban areas where traffic jams may slow their passage, thus causing an unfavorable delay in responding to distress calls.

  3. Firebreak - Wikipedia

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    For example, during the Cedar Fire of 2003, strong Santa Ana winds had blown enough burning embers across a 10-lane section of Interstate 15 to ignite the vegetation on the other side. [3] During the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park , hot embers managed to cross the Lewis Canyon , a natural canyon up to a mile wide and 600 feet (180 m) deep.

  4. M113A2 Firefighting Vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The fire suppressant liquid was pressurised by two 220 cubic foot (6.23 m 3) nitrogen or compressed air cylinders operating at 2,000 psi, which would deliver the suppressant at 150 to 200 gallons per minute. Replacement of the propellant cylinders and refilling the water and fire-suppressant tank took 7 to 10 minutes.

  5. National Fire Danger Rating System - Wikipedia

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    The output section of the NFDRS structure chart is the components or simply the outputs that are based in fire behavior description but expressed in the broader context of fire danger rating. [ 6 ] Spread Component – Displays a value numerically equivalent to the predicted forward rate of spread of a head fire in feet per minute.

  6. Public Protection Classification Program - Wikipedia

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    The data is then analyzed using a proprietary Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS). [2] The Schedule then assigns a PPC score between 1 and 10 to the department, with Class 1 representing "superior property fire protection" and Class 10 indicating that an area doesn't meet the minimum criteria set by the ISO. On July 1, 2013, the revised ...

  7. Explosion in Levittown leaves family of five homeless. What ...

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    Middletown police and fire officials are investigating an explosion and fire in the Snowball Gate section of Levittown on Saturday night that has left a family of five homeless.. The Bucks County ...

  8. Road surface marking - Wikipedia

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    Single line: bus-only lane at a rush hour such as 7:00–9:00 and 17:30–19:30 on weekdays; Double line: bus-only lane at additional times such as 5:00–11:0015:00–22:00 on weekdays or double line on several streets means bus-only lane all day, including weekends. Dash line: bus-only lane.

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