A neighborhood firehouse comes to life when the alarm sounds. Firemen use the extending ladder to put out a fire in a tall downtown building. This sturdy, license plate-shaped board book comes with a customized Matchbox ladder fire truck.
In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal ...
Case studies of recent forest fires, including the 2016 fires in California, provide readers with real-life examples to encourage connections between the book's STEM content and social studies concepts of conservation, community engagement, ...
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a ...
A gripping account of the tragic 1994 South Canyon forest fire that killed fourteen firefighters chronicles the string of seemingly small human blunders that contributed to the tragedy. Reprint.
Given the mounting, unsustainable costs and difficulty translating existing wildland fire science into policy, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a 1-day workshop to focus on how a century of wildland ...
Table 11-6 Prior Credit Estimated Credit Maximum Credit 4.84 % 4.84 % 10.00 % 20.46 % 50.00 % Feature Receiving and handling fire alarms Fire department Water supply Divergence Total 27.71 % 26.63 % 26.63 % 40.00 % -5.13 % -2.23 % 46.80 ...
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The book also identifies and analyzes the elements that can influence EMS mobilization response times.
The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism-the great Hartford circus fire of 1944....