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Chief to hang up his fire helmet ; Biddeford's Robert Fournier is retiring after nearly four decades in which he has gone from riding on the tailgate to being the boss.
Portland Press Herald (Maine); 7/10/2008; SETH HARKNESS By SETH HARKNESS Staff Writer; 649 words
; Chief to hang up his fire helmet ; Biddeford's Robert Fournier is retiring after ... Writer Edition: YORK Section: Your Neighbors Type: News BIDDEFORD -- When Robert Fournier joined the Biddeford Fire Department in 1971, the firefighters wore heavy canvas ... members of the department, Fournier said. In that ...
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SEN. BOB CASEY AND REP. JASON ALTMIRE SEN. BOB CASEY AND REP. JASON ALTMIRE HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANIES AND THE RISING COST OF GASOLINE
Washington Transcript Service; 7/9/2008; 2537 words
; SEN. CASEY AND REP. ALTMIRE HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANIES AND THE RISING COST OF GASOLINE JULY 9, 2008 SPEAKERS: SEN. BOB CASEY, D-PA. REP. JASON ALTMIRE, D-PA. [*] CASEY: Well ... redundancy to that sign. But I wanted to introduce these individuals. First of all, Deputy Chief Barry Emig from ...
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Wes Werner was Minnesota's fire marshal; State's chief firefighter focused on prevention, helped write the fire code and established a corps of inspectors.(NEWS)(Obituary)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/10/2008; Cohen, Ben; 446 words
; ... WRITER Weston (Wes) Werner of Eagan, Minnesota's fire marshal from 1972 to 1986, was instrumental in finding new ways to prevent fire tragedies. Werner, who formerly had served as the volunteer fire department chief for Milaca, died on July 5 in ...
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Constitutive Model for Aluminum Alloys Exposed to Fire Conditions
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions; 4/1/2008; Maljaars, J; Soetens, F; Katgerman, L; 5471 words
; ... Harmathy, is modified in order to be used for fire-exposed aluminum alloys. Two alloys, 5083 ... frequent application in structures for which fire design is relevant. The material parameters ... tests are considered as representative for fire-exposed, insulated aluminum members. The ...
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Fire At Eatery; Damage $200,000
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 7/16/2008; Michael Yoder; 292 words
; An early morning fire Tuesday caused an estimated $200,000 in ... and discovered smoke inside the building. Fire crews from Paradise, Gordonville, Kinzers ... from a basement storage area. Paradise fire Chief Bob Herman said that by the time ...
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Aracoma mine fire criminal probe winding down
Charleston Gazette; 7/17/2008; Ken Ward Jr.; 731 words
; ... their criminal probe of the January 2006 fire that killed two workers at Massey Energy ... six Massey foremen for their roles in the fire that killed Aracoma miners Don Bragg and ... and state investigators that an emergency fire hose did not fit the water faucet in the ...
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Engineer's pioneering work led to advances in fire codes.
New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand); 7/19/2008; 523 words
; ... engineers through an unusual specialty - fire engineering. During his long career he ... international respect for his work. Historically, fire regulations were written in arbitrary fashion ... result of a major disaster such as the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the London wartime ...
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Coldsprings fire
Yakima Herald-Republic; 7/16/2008; Philip Ferolito; 425 words
; Crews fight to keep Cold Springs fire from Yakamas' commercial timber By PHIL FEROLITO YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Crews battling the Cold Springs Fire near Mount Adams will continue carving fire lines today in hopes of keeping the blaze from entering ...
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Fatal blaze blamed on command failures; An independent report cites a "delay to action" by the Oak Grove Fire Department that let a fire to spiral out of control.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/12/2008; Levy, Paul; 597 words
; ... and the misreading of conditions by Oak Grove Fire Department commanders allowed a March house fire -- in which an 86-year-old man died -- to go ... indecision and delay by superiors during the March 5 fire may have cost the life of James Verdi Blackford ...
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Raging man set fire to girlfriend's net curtains
Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK); 7/18/2008; Sentinel Reporter; 466 words
; ... history of committing arson attacks set fire to his girlfriend's curtains during a violent ... living room and saw that Jones had set fire to the net curtains. This spread to the ... extinguished. They could not prevent the fire spreading further, and about pounds2,000 ...
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