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Junior firefighter programs give young people the chance to learn about local fire, rescue, and emergency medical services response organizations in a safe, controlled, educational, and fun way while providing departments with an excellent recruitment mechanism.
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
The first 2022 Teen CERT Academy hosted by the Cape Fear Community Emergency Response Team and Fayetteville Fire Department graduated.
While a child fire-setter is usually curious about fire and has the desire to learn more about it, [4] a child pyromaniac has an unusually bizarre impulse or desire to set intentional fires. [6] Pyromania, also known as pathological fire-setting, is when the desire to set fires is repetitive and destructive to people or property. [4]
The "pyroCb" is a fire-started or fire-augmented thunderstorm that in its most extreme manifestation injects huge abundances of smoke and other biomass-burning emissions into the lower stratosphere. The observed hemispheric spread of smoke and other biomass-burning emissions has known important climate consequences.
In 2022, one fatal house fire occurred every three hours and 14 minutes while one home fire injury occurred every 53 minutes. (NFPA) Home fires in 2022 resulted in 2,710 civilian deaths.
A Star Fire, or Indian Fire, is the fire design often depicted as the campfire of the old West. Someone lays six or so logs out like the spokes of a wheel (star-shaped). They start the fire at the "hub," and push each log towards the center as the flames consume the ends. [9]
Authorities received a report around 3 a.m. about two juveniles inside a home in "smoke and flames" in Summit County, according to a Coventry Township Fire Department press release obtained by USA ...