There wasn't time for many trips to the bottom and back up before the fire reached the elevator shafts as well. Others ran to the fire escape. Though about 20 reached the bottom successfully, about 25 others died when the fire escape collapsed. In total of the 500 employees, 146 were dead. One result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was that the New York governor appointed a commission to
English Comp II Causes and Effects of Forest Fires Wildfires are caused by many different things. They can be sparked by lightening or human related activities. Regardless of their source of ignition, the effects of forest fires are both good and bad. As the monsoon season passes, vegetation from seasons past begins to dry out, raising the threat of forest fires. These fires have a variety of sources, such as man’s negligence, a natural occurrence like lightening, or an earthquake like the one that caused the San Francisco fire of 1906.
According to “Document D”, in 1607 August through October “Summer sickness kills half the colonists” The summer of 1607 was so severe that it killed 50 people. This was more than half of the amount of people left. They in anyway couldn’t have known that such an aggressive summer would hit them. Unlike the 21 century, the colonists then did not have radars which could predict how the summer would be. They could not have saved
The initial impact was devastating which left about 300,000 people homeless out of a population of about 410,000. Many of the people were evacuated to nearby cities, and the others lived in makeshift tents on the beach of North beach. In fact years later in 1908 these refugee camps were still in operation. The overall cost of the damages was estimated at the time to be 400 million US Dollars (around 8.2 Billion present Dollars). The fires that were a direct result from the main shock and the aftershocks were just as damaging because of the uncontrollable burning from ruptured gas lines.
Shaking like a tree on a windy day, I climbed onto the fire truck. This may have been my first structure fire but I knew exactly what I had to do. As the fire truck’s sirens screamed and blinding lights flashed we drew closer to the fire. As the truck got closer you could smell the smoke from the burning house. As the truck drew closer and
In the last century, many naturally occurring fires were put out immediately as rangers feared it would ruin the national park. However, this resulted in an incredible buildup of dead wood and undergrows that fueled catastrophic infernos. Today, the National Park firefighters manage and allow naturally occurring fires to burn or set controlled fires in order to maintain a balance. The Giant Sequoia trees are heavily dependent upon the fires as it needs fire to reproduce. When a fire burns, the heat opens up their seed cones which allows for their seeds to be released.
More than 90% of the workers and visitors who died in the towers had been at or above the point where the plane was hit. In the North Tower 1,355 people at or above the point where the plane hit were trapped and died of smoke inhalation, fell or jumped from the tower to escape the smoke and flames, or were killed in the building's eventual collapse. The destruction of all three staircases in the tower when Flight 11 hit made it impossible for
Anyone that the plague came upon, caused reddening stains on the face and the body would appear, which caused the individual to be thrown in a secluded quarantine factory. This disease appeared in over less than an hour. During this time no one could find the cure for this impeccable disease. As time goes on mass destruction is steady rising in the city. When President Toro heard of this distraught news he was horrified of the mass destruction that was going on.
To a wildfire, homes and other structures are forms of fuel, and the wind provides plenty of oxygen. The slope of the terrain is also important to a wildfire's rapid spread. A fire moving up a slope moves faster and has longer flames than one on level ground because hot gases rise in front of it, pre-heating its path. This is the way wildfire spreads. The fire heats and dries fuel above it, causing it
Normally you would think that if you hear the word “tornado” you would start panicking and start asking where and when is it going to happen. What would you say if someone tells you: “ Did you see the beautiful tornado that was formed yesterday in the evening”; you start wondering why that person used the word beautiful and tornado in the same sentence. People see tornadoes as dangerous natural phenomenons, but they don’t tend to know much about their power and are blinded by what they are told and shown, that their idea of what a tornado really is, is actually a distorted image. A tornado is a rotating column of air, in contact with the ground. In order to be a tornado it has to be in contact with both the ground and the cloud base.