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Great place to find information about the health and safety regulations, building codes and laws relating to fire fighting.

This is some stories where fire fighters put their lives on the line. pictures,videos,stories

How does this life compare to the sugarers?

Fire Rescue 1 is a well known source of quality articles that cover the spectrum of emergency services from equiptment to training to stories involving firefighters themselves.

This article is about a tragic mine fire in Turkey that killed dozens of miners and left many trapped deep underground. In response to this tragedy, Turkey is doing as much as possible to stop unsafe and unregulated mining operations. According to the article, unregulated mines account for 85% of the mines in Turkey, so its going to take some time for them to follow through with regulations. This is a reliable article as it is from the CNN website. This article helped me realize how dangerous it is to work in the mining industry in countries that lack safety regulations.

Galls.com is the fire, EMS and police store for emergency services professionals. The website has every type of equipment or hardware that you could imagine.

The Obama Administration and the EPA have officially announced their intent to cut current coal power plant carbon emissions by forty percent. Experts in the field of power production say that these new regulations are impossible to achieve without extremely expensive prototype-based carbon capture technology. These new regulations will certainly have a huge impact on the cost of electricity in the coming years.

So do you see a parallel to the fire regulations you have been researching? Do you see a similar impact on cost? Will these costs impact in any way the enforcement of these regulations? Do the benefits outweigh the costs?

The First 3D printed metal guns was constructed and fired early November by Solid Concepts, of Austin Texas. Printed out of stainless steel, and surviving 50 test shots so far. Kent Firestone, 'vice president of additive manufacturing at solid concepts' describes the process, contrary to popular belief, to be very accurate a strong. Do you think this a scientific achievement, or the first sign of a scary future?

dive into the world of electrical. learn everything you need to know and more. learn the dangers of not having breakers, this could potentially prevent fire when doing it yourself.

Whacking targets at stupidly long ranges has become the cool thing to do. Indeed, it's gratifying to get behind a rifle, fire a single shot and hit a target the size of a guitar five football fields away. For many, this mastery of ballistics and pulling triggers seems as complicated as calculus and as expensive as an addiction.

A great and very detailed web page describing many different techniques for glazing a piece both before and after firing it. The page cover all sort of glazing techniques from etching to marbleizing. Good site overall but some pictures of results and steps would be useful

TSL is e-mailed at no charge and produced as time allows. With the attitude that in order for us to survive the dangers of the job, they must learn how we have had "Close Calls" and even been injured or killed, TSL brings forward issues in an effort to enforce that philosophy-and get us to refocus on "what's important."

I used this site for research on the concept of solarization, to consider the possibility of it effecting poison parsnip seeds, so that they could possibly be made ineffective by destruction using heat. This site discusses the effects solarization can have on soilborne pathogens, weeds, beneficial microbes, and plant nutrients. Many people seeking to rid their gardens or certain areas of weeds or invasive species choose to use this technique, as it is better for the soil, doesn't leave residual chemicals in the soil, and solarization actually helps the soil become more fertile and accommodating, so that beneficial microbes can repopulate quicker, and the nutrients the soil yields are better. The site also gives people a general idea of how long this process (solarization) can take, and how to carry it out: moisturized soil is cleared of debris, a tarp placed on top of the soil in a time of year where temperatures can superheat the soil, and then left for around 2-4 weeks to kill all plant life and bacteria/pathogens under the tarp, so the soil is left fertile. This technique reminds me of how farmers used to burn their crops to ensure more fertile soil and the plants growing back healthier. It shares the same idea, but unlike with fire, this technique doesn't damage the soil and takes less time for the plant life to recover. This is an interesting idea, and I had heard of solarization before I began studying it, but I never understood exactly what it was good for. I will be able to use this site, if only to study the effects of solarization and possibly draw a connection to poison parsnip. This is a reliable education site, and it will be helpful for something to consider while I write my experimental procedure and begin my experiment.

This article talks about how a wheel lock firing mechanism works and tells you the name of each part of the mechanism.