Federal law and common sense both mandate adequate fire extinguishers in good order aboard all vessels. If you are unsure about the legal minimums for your class of vessel, consult the Coast Guard’s Federal Requirements for Commercial Fishing Industry Vessels. The extinguisher designations include a letter that indicates the type of fire it is designed to fight (for example, “B” for fuels and o...

Fire danger rating systems are used to assess the potential for bushfire occurrence, fire spread and difficulty of fire suppression. Typically, fire danger rating systems combine meteorological information with estimates of the moisture content of the fuel to produce a fire danger index. Fire danger indices are used to declare fire bans and to schedule prescribed burns, among other applications...

background economic consequence analysis is vital for recognizing pipeline comprehensive risk analysis and emergency response planning. objectives the purpose of this study was to estimate economic loss due to fire and explosion in petrochemical feed and product pipelines. materials and methods the present study which performed on 47 pipelines of a petrochemical special zone, pertinent pipeline...

Fire is a globally distributed disturbance that impacts terrestrial ecosystems and has been proposed to be a global "herbivore." Fire, like herbivory, is a top-down driver that converts organic materials into inorganic products, alters community structure, and acts as an evolutionary agent. Though grazing and fire may have some comparable effects in grasslands, they do not have similar impacts ...

When satellite data on fire activity first became available for the globe it confirmed perceptions that there is a great deal of burning in Africa. The striking number of active fires recorded in Africa compared with other parts of the world with similar environmental characteristics point to the importance of humans in altering fire regimes on this continent. Humans have been using fire in Afr...

based on writing of tabari as well as other historical researches, mihr narseh, prime minister of bahram v (421-439 ad) founded a number of buildings in the province of ardashir khorrah. among public utility buildings, he built four fire temples in four villages in baryn plains of the same province. the current paper tries to find the exact locations of those temples based on references availab...

Every operation could have a fire emergency, especially in the case of a tracheostomy. When a flammable gas meets a source of heat, the danger of fire is remarkable. A tracheal tube filled with a high concentration of oxygen is also a great risk factor for fire. Intra-tracheal tube fire is a rare, yet critical emergency with catastrophic consequences. Thus, numerous precautions are taken during...

The sequential correction of a fire spread model parameters is performed via the assimilation of airborne-like fire front observations in order to improve the simulation and forecast of the fire propagation. An Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) is applied to reduce uncertainties in the atmospheric and vegetation parameters for the Rate Of Spread (ROS) model. The non-linear relation between the para...

Computational tools have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for modeling fire spread and smoke transport in order that various professionals such as fire protection engineers, fire researchers, fire investigators, fire fighters, AHJ’s (authorities having jurisdiction) etc. may study the dynamics of fire with the ultimate aim of improving fire safety. The...

Due to high dimensionality of video data, video mining becomes tedious task for any search engine. It requires lot of computation on account of multiple and nested loops and that too at high speed. This makes the computational task very expensive in terms of programming performance like speed of operation and code size etc. However, if the video sequences are stored based on contents like color...