Ferguson Fire Case Study

At the point when fire fighters at long last touched base at DeKoven Street, the fire had developed and

On March 25, 1911, a Saturday afternoon, near closing time, a fire broke out in the Triangle Waist Company, on one of the top 3 floors of the ten story Asch Building. Within thirty minutes, 146 lives were lost, because of neglected safety features and locked doors. The fire is believed to have started by the careless use of a match from one of the cutters to get a smoke. Before ringing the fire alarm, the workers tried to extinguish the flames, but the flames quickly spread. It was the shirtwaists, hanging on lines about the workers, the sewing machines placed closely together, and the trimmings of cuttings and rags with littered the floors that spread the fire so quickly.

The night before, a fire tore through four city blocks before the fire department could bring it to bear.

The firefighters concluded that the fire started as result to a spark in the microwave and accompanying combustion.

During the first minute of the explosion many injuries where caused by the instantaneous penetrating radiation from the nuclear explosion (3). Other casualties came from burning fires that had ignited throughout the cities from the tremendous heat of the blast (3). The pressure of the blast waves created flying debris, collapsed buildings, and forcibly hurled people to their death (3). Undoubtedly those who survived the initial effects of the blast were very lucky.

Buildings in the area were set ablaze by the bomb, and some were badly charred. Firemen worked for over 12 hours to douse the fire.

"Around 7:30 at the beginning of today, a truck hit a transport, which then burst into flames," Gerard Dupuy, delegate chairman of the town of Puisseguin, southwest France, said on France Info radio. "It happened on a perilous turn," he said, including that mischances had already happened there.

On May 31, 2013, at 1207 hours, A Texas fire department was dispatched to a restaurant on fire. Four career firefighters were killed and sixteen were injured when the roof of a restaurant collapsed on them while searching to find the fire. One firefighter, the captain was assigned to Engine 51 (E51). Another firefighter, the engineer/operator was assigned to Ladder 51. The other two fire fighters were assigned to Engine 68 (E68). As they arrived on scene, at 1211 hours, the captain of E51 radioed his size up stating that they had a working fire in the restaurant with heavy smoke showing from the attic, plus a temperature reading from his thermal imager. E51 made entry from side alpha with a 2 ½ inch preconnect hoseline. Shortly after E51 made entry, the District Chief arrived on scene and established Command. He quickly ordered E51 out of the building because the tanks were getting low on water. After water supply was found, they continued.

In 1958, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, a B-47 aircraft, carrying a jettisoned nuclear weapon, fell and set off on the garden of the Gregg family. The detonation formed a crater 50-70 feet wide and 25-30 feet deep, the home of the family was completely destroyed; five other houses and a churches were also heavily damaged. Thus, leading to minor injuries on the members of the Gregg family. During a routine maintenance, on September, 8 1980, on a Titan II silo, an underground area where a guided missile is kept ready for firing. A repairman dropped a heavy wrench; rolled off and fell toward the missile, causing pressurized fuel to leak; the complex was evacuated and while a team of specialists tried to fix the problem. Within hours, fuel vapors ignited and exploded, the explosion killed a member of the team, and twenty-one heavily injured, the missile contained a nuclear warhead, which caused

On Friday, 14 April, 1944 which was a haunting day when SS Fort Stinkine arrived at Bombay to unload cargo. Her cargo includes crated spitfires, munitions, scrap iron, gold bars and around 1,400 tons of explosive, sulphur, cotton bales, timber, lubricating oil drums, Supermarine Spitfire fighter, turpentine, fish manure, rice and resin. A fire then broke out in the hold no. 2 at around 14:00 hrs and crew got alerted to the fire and efforts are made to extinguish the fire. Mean while dockside teams and fire boats arrived to the location when they received the information and started extinguishing the fire. Despite their efforts they are unable to find the source where exactly the fire got lit due to the dense smoke which resulted in two massive explosions that

bomb left a crater, in the ground, that was over a half of a mile long.

They reached home after about 30 minutes later (2:30). She turned on the radio, to her dismay, broadcasted a fresh warning. She did not want to move anymore (she has been for a very long time). So she set her children to sleep. She started to cook some rice and watched a neighbor tear down his house. Suddenly, everything flashed whiter than any white had ever seen. Mrs. Nakamura was about ¾ miles away from the center of the explosion. She seemed to fly into the next room over the raised sleeping platform, pursued by parts of her house. Her youngest daughter was buried and unable to move. Mrs. Nakamura frantically tried to claw her daughter out, not knowing of her other children.

The burning city could be seen from more than 60 miles away on the ground, and 500 miles away in the air. Because of the devastation, the pathfinders made the target bigger, this time including the Hauptbahnhof, a major train station, and the Großer Garten, a large park in Dresden. 529 Lancasters dropped more than 1800 tons of bombs between the time frames of 1:21, and 1:45.

In order to put out the fire the crew flooded the airlock with o2 causing the fire to burn out very quickly. This seems very unlike to happen without causing significant damage to the ship and wasting virtually all of the crew’s oxygen supply. In the movie the crew flooded the garden airlock with oxygen which would cause an explosion and put out the fire as shown in the movie. The fire in the airlock would have required a great amount of o2 to put out. Due to it’s large size and it being full of flame, the airlock would need a great amount of oxygen to burn off the fire so quickly. This likely would have to use most of the stored oxygen meaning it’d be potentially fatal for the astronauts on

Both bombs were detonated ten minutes apart. The first bomb went off at 11:38 pm, the first explosion was intended to encourage any on board to evacuate to safety.