Fire alarm systems are essential in alerting people before fire engulfs their homes. However, systems, today, require a lot of wiring and labour to be installed. This discourages users from installing them The proposed system is an ad-hoc network that distributed over the house. consists microcontroller (ESP32) connected infrared flame sensor continuously senses surrounding environment detect p...

Decisions made by operational commanders at emergency incidents have been characterized as involving a period of information gathering followed by courses of action that are often generated without explicit plan formulation. We examined the efficacy of goal-oriented training in engendering explicit planning that would enable better communication at emergency incidents. While standard training m...

1843, aged twenty, after being confined for a fortnight in Kensington House Asylum. He had been admitted with delusions that his bed was on fire, refusing to go to bed at night, and having on one occasion returned home naked. He had struck a keeper at Kensington House, but was normally tractable and good tempered. His attack was said to have begun six months previously, that is at about the sam...

Many houses are at risk of being destroyed by wildfires. While previous studies have improved our understanding of how, when and why houses are destroyed by wildfires, little attention has been given to how these fires started. We compiled a dataset of wildfires that destroyed houses in New South Wales and Victoria and, by comparing against wildfires where no houses were destroyed, investigated...

BACKGROUND An evaluation of a smoke-free home initiative launched in Rotherham, northern England, in July 2009. METHODS Two approaches were used: (i) a postal survey of participants 4 months after signing up as a SFH and (ii) a telephone consultation. The survey was sent to 620 households (of 654 who signed up to the scheme); 289 (46.6%) were returned. The telephone consultation involved 20 h...