Fire Rooster1503 ENG121: English Composition I Feb. 10, 2013 To most people when you say the word Fire it brings forth connotations of a campfire or a fireplace. But when you say the word Fire to me, it brings images of death and destruction. I do not taste smoores or sweet treats; I taste human sweat, fear and charred combustibles. I don’t smell the hickory smell of a chimney fire; I smell the burnt smell of furniture and bedding. Since the discovery of Fire there was the arduous task of how to control it, contain it and harness its power to make it useful.
Scanlan also made sure there was notification of his findings posted throughout the mine in order for all to be informed of the danger of the mine. Scanlan was sure to report all of his findings to the Department of Mining and Minerals. The decision to not shut down the mine in order to demand the safety measures be remedied has proven to be a hard lesson learned. This is mainly because it will always be questioned “what if” these measures were done, would the lives of 111 coal miners be saved. Scanlan as public administrator may have used the media and public radio stations to inform the public of the possibility of the explosion and this may have forced the owners and authorities to take action sooner than they decided to take action.
In each of the incidents there are steps that needed to be taken. The two fundamental goals of any disaster response is identified by Aylwin et al is to remove casualties from a hazardous incident scene. Synchronized communications between each of the different groups responding, along with current communications, with the available bomb squad/bomb-dismantling experts to insure a rapid response. The response was comprehensive and represented a task of significant complexity involving several different types of responding organizations. Most compelling in terms of its absence was the lack of adequate on-site triage units whereas hospital responses were diminished by inadequate surge capacity and limited resource availability.
Kingsford Charcoal wants to identify why coal sales are decreasing and how they can turn this around and ensure this does not continue. Proposed Solution Kingsford Charcoal will have to decide if adjustments need to be made to the following four areas: 1. Promotion 2. Advertising 3. Pricing 4.
i know it’s important to deal with the fire but I think the number one priority is the safety of your men. I am pretty sure there was some safety issues with the plant and Magnablend over looked them which caused this fire. There needs to be safety risk assessments for every operation in huge scale chemical plant like this, so this accident doesn’t happen again. References Lefebvre, Ben, and Ana Campoy. "U.S. News: Fire Engulfs Texas Chemical Plant."
Now the other threat was the polyurethane foam they used to insulate the walls and ceiling. Now this is highly flammable and once this caught on fire it quickly spread throughout the whole building and made it as bad as it was. If they were to of used a less flammable insulation then this fire probably would not have claimed so many lives. Now there were a couple different
According to Wikipedia, as a result of the fire that killed 146 garment workers, "[n]ew laws mandated better building access and egress, fireproofing requirements, the availability of fire extinguishers, the installation of alarm systems and automatic sprinklers, better eating and toilet facilities for workers, and limited the number of hours that women and children could work." Local authorities and global observers are still trying to sort out who's to blame for the collapse of the Rana Plaza
English II Honors Fahrenheit 451 Writing Prompt make-up 05/28/2013 Fahrenheit 451 Compare and Contrast Guy Montag and the Fire Chief In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the firemen, ironically, start fire rather than putout fire. The main conflict of the novel is the main character Guy Montag tries to act against Captain Beatty, the fire chief. Although Montag and Beatty looked similar at the beginning of the novel, they are very different both psychologically and mentally because of their age difference and the people they meet. As a result,they think from difference perspectives and eventually caused the conflict between the two characters. At the beginning of the novel, Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic
In 1977 the Forest Service made carrying fire shelters mandatory for all firefighters after three fatalities occurred on the Battlement Creek Fire. The Mann Gulch fire obviously happened before shelters were invented, but if these men would have been carrying them, the outcome could have been very different. There have been numerous cases since the implementation of fire shelters where crews have been overtaken by wildfires and lived to talk about it. In most cases, the sole reason for survival, was the use of fire shelters. The shelters are able to shield trapped firefighters from the radiant heat of the fire, as well as give them a small amount of breathable air amidst the superheated gases.
Fahrenheit 451 Houses are tumbling down on top of charcoaled books and fires are being ignited instead of extinguished, and this is all happening because of firefighters. How ironic. In the world of Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, the author accurately portrays how some things in our world today is like, as if he could see into the future. This book also shows how an excess of technology can ruin the world. There are many similarities in this book compared to our everyday lives.