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    Times-Dispatch, a News Website, April 1st, 2015 The students behind this invention are Viet Tran, a computer engineer major and Seth Robertson, an electrical engineer major. They are both Undergraduates at George Mason University in Virginia. Their idea fight fire with sound started as a senior research project. They didn't like the ideas that their professor proposed thats why they went

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    Becoming A Firefighter

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    simple, with starting out as a volunteer. Volunteering helps build a vital professional contacts, which is important is this highly competitive field. A fire science education is required and offered at most community colleges and four year universities (Fire Science Degree Programs in North Carolina| Firefighter Training). Then attending a fire academy which typically last three months. This academy is designed to train and prepare firefighters for certification. The academy is meant to physically

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    As a fire investigator they get to save babies and adults. If someone worked in this field then this person could bring justice to the families who have lost lives in fires or bomb explosion. fire investigators help figure out what went wrong in the house or building at the time of the fire. As a fire investigator, you witness things on the job that others might not. This is some of the business fire investigators have deal with, “Examine debris to obtain information about the cause of fires. Record

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    (personification) Despite their similarities ,the United States and the European fire services differences are clear. Approximately (adv)1,134,400 people in the United States are firefighters. About 346,000 are career or paid firefighters. 788,000 are volunteer and don’t get paid for their time. Women only make up seven percent of United States firefighters, making men the prevalent gender in the fire fighting world. The classes of fire are categorized by what burns. Class A is anything that creates an ash

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    The alarm sounds. Fire fighters scramble into coats, and helmets, and boots. Fire trucks roar into the street loaded with fire fighters and their equipment. Every minute counts. Lives and property could be at stake. A fireman has to be of great physical and mental stature, they are minutemen and have to be ready at all times. No one can dispute that a firefighter should be a well-educated and well prepared individual. Because of the rigorous and dangerous caliber involved in the fire academy, an applicant

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    Throughout both The House of the Scorpions and On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power, there are many differences. These two articles are like comparing apples to broccoli as Mrs. White, my eighth grade gifted English teacher, puts it. However, once you dig down deeper into the meaning of these writings, you can find many similarities not easily seen on the surface.     Conceiving of power, as Nietzsche puts it, is more of a deceitful process. Nietzsche’s process might be more for someone who is

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    that amateur fire fighters or regular people were not enough. On February 4th Franklin issued a letter to the newspaper called “Protection of Towns from fire” (History channel). He anonymously wrote about how people need to step up and save towns and people from fire. Franklin wanted to make a club or a meeting services where people could sharpen their skills to fight fire. Under Franklins order and a group of thirty men on December 7th, 1736 the first fire department was made. The fire fighters would

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    catches fire, most people will run from the fire to safety. Firefighters run from safety to the burning building. Fighting fires and looking cool, however, is only a small part of the job. Most people don’t realize that there is much that happens behind the scenes. A firefighter also deals with many events besides fires. 2 The fire company first started when a bunch of farmers grabbed buckets of water, rakes, and anything else that they could find, and ran to a neighbor’s farm that was on fire and did

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    As a few years passed and my fear of fire was diminishing, I would have to face it all over again. I woke to the hysterical cries of my mother yelling “fire”, even though I slept extremely deeply. I flew out of my bed, landing in the hallway of our home. All of the sudden there was a phone in my hand and I was telling the person on the other end of the phone, our name and that our house was on fire. At that dreadful instant the phone went dead. It wasn’t actually

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    Flame Test Research Summary My experiment is to found out what color of flame each chemical will give off. There are four different temperatures and colors of flames. The red flame is at a temperature of 980℉ - 1,800℉. The orange flame is at a temperature of 2,000℉ - 2,200℉. The white flame is at a temperature of 2,400℉ - 2,700℉. Last but not least, the blue flame is at a temperature of 2,600℉ - 3,000℉. The color of the flame depends on the material being used and the temperature. I am using nine

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