...Although a quick response and quick knock down kept a Saturday evening barn fire from spreading to a nearby house, it wasn’t enough to save the barn and two horses that perished inside it. Firefighters were dispatched to 8000 County Road 189, owned and occupied by Reuben D. and Sarah H. Miller, after a resident of nearby County Road 192 reported the fire at 6:09 p.m. Prairie Township Fire Chief Reuben Miller responded straight from home. Holmes County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Summers, also a member of the fire department, responded from where he was patrolling just north of Holmesville. They arrived at 6:13 p.m., followed two minutes later by an engine from Prairie Township, said the chief, who is no relation to the owner of the property. On arrival, the...
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... MGM FIRE | |Case Study | | | | Chidozie B Nzom | |12/04/2014 | | | | | | | | | Introduction The MGM Grand fire occurred on November 21, 1980 at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, USA, now bally’s Las Vegas. The fire killed...
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...The fire service has a long-standing history and tradition of providing on the job training in an informal setting whether it is at the firehouse, training ground, or fire ground. While this SPM process may have been good enough a decade or two ago, the American fire service is being redefined and are amid of a leadership vacuum as baby boomers retire, and an influx of new generation firefighters attempt to fill some enormous shoes in a dynamic service. FEMA (2000) wrote that “succession planning is an organized and systematic way to ensure that employees in a particular organization are capable, competent, and willing to replace and succeed to strategic roles within the organization” (p. SM 6-3). It is crucial for agencies to have a system in place to ensure that new managers succeed and therefore strategically move the organization to succeed. FEMA (2015) wrote there are keys to successful succession planning and includes: 1) Focused training and development of identified individuals. 2) Stay realistic about expectations and future roles. 3) Measure outcomes, not processes. 4) Keep it simple (p. SM 9-18). The keystones of an SPM plan should include the following five components: 1. Replacement Pool The SPM process begins by identifying a group of individuals as potential prospects for promotions. To discover...
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...bathroom from a heroin overdose, while family members watch in terror. This scenario plays out across the United States hundreds if not thousands of times each day. When this scenario plays out, every firefighter knows they have just minutes to respond, which can be the difference between life or death. For this case study, in the last twelve months, 57 people in Anytown, USA, a city of 250,000 residents, have lost their lives due to drug addiction. The problem is an opiate, and heroin overdoses are killing people in this city at the rate of just over one person a week with no end in sight. What can be done to fix this growing problem and who should fix it? The problem is vast and multifaceted and will require a Taskforce comprised of Federal, State, local, and private partners and stakeholders to address this complicated issue. The Anytown Fire Department(AFD) is comprised of approximately 400 firefighters and supervisors that currently respond to urgent medical emergencies as first responders only. A private ambulance company provides pre-hospital treatments and transports to the local hospital. Due to the age of the...
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...Fire is one of the notable human induced disasters in Bangladesh. Every year, hundreds of people die and many are injured due to fire accidents. In last two years, more than 15,000 fire incidents took place throughout the country and most of the them occured in Dhaka and Chittagong. Some of those fire accidents are given below : Tazreen fire accident: A devastating fire broken out in Tajreen Fashion Limited, a sister concern of Tuba Group at Nischintapur, Ashulia, Saver, Dhaka on 24 November at 6:30 pm and it was managed to bring the blaze under control at around 6 am, after more than 11 hours of frantic efforts.The fire broke out in the Westside of the ground floor that was being used as a warehouse and was full of inflammable cloths, yearns and garments accessories. As a result the fire spread up to the upper floors as it could not be tamed immediately. The mid level officials prevented workers from leaving the building after the fire had broken out. Total death & injured workers: •Date of Incident: 24 November 2012 • Place of Incident: Tazreen Fashion Limited, Nischintapur, Ashulia, Saver, Dhaka • Total Number of Death: A total of 111** workers died as per Govt. statistic. Among them 58 dead body has been identified and rest of 53 dead body was unidentified. The identified 58 dead body was handed over to deceased family members or relatives. The unidentified 53 dead body was lied down in Jurain Graveyard. After identification of legal successor through DNA test these...
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...PINTO FIRES CASE The assumption that ‘it’s easy to be ethical’ assumes that individuals automatically know that they are facing an ethical dilemma and that they should simply choose to do the right thing. But decision makers may not always recognize that they are facing a moral issue. Rarely do decisions come with waving red flags. Dennis Gioia was recall coordinator at Ford Motor Company in the early 1970s when the company decided not to recall the Pinto despite dangerous fires that were killing the occupants of vehicles involved in low-impact rear-end collisions. In his information and overloaded recall coordinator role, Gioia saw thousands of accident reports, and he followed a cognitive “script” that helped him decide which situations represented strong recall candidates and which did not. The incoming information about the Pinto fires did not penetrate a script designed to surface other issues, and it did not initially raise ethical concerns. He and his colleagues in the recall office did not recognize the recall issue as an ethical issue. From the standpoint of Hooker’s test, we will start with the geralizability test. Hooker (2011) states that to pass generalizability, it must give the reasons for an action have to be consistent with the assumption that others who have the same reasons act the same way. To release the Pinto as scheduled and risk the safety of those who purchased it or spend more time designing the car, thereby seceding more of the subcompact...
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...Discuss the possible damage with short term and long-term complications of a firefighter inhaling heated air and in respiratory distress. Prioritize the necessary interventions to stabilize the patient. Then discuss an in-depth plan of care for recovery. Smoke inhalation is known as the leading cause of death due to fires. Firefighters are trained to recognize the dangerous short-term effects of smoke exposure caused by carbon monoxide and tiny particles absorbed into the lungs. The inhalation of heated air produces injury through several mechanisms, including thermal injury to the upper airway, irritation or chemical injury to the airways from soot, asphyxiation, and toxicity from carbon monoxide. In most cases firefighters can wear devices...
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...A fire warden is a vital part of ensuring your organisation is prepared in case of an emergency. Fire warden training is essential so the warden learns how to act in an emergency, implements or improves existing emergency procedures and how to lead evacuation and fire drills properly. What is Fire Warden Training? Fire warden training is specific courses designed to teach an individual how to act and respond per their duties as a fire warden. Some of the duties include assisting in creating or enhancing current evacuation procedures in the workplace, preventing fire emergencies by monitoring risk factors, raising awareness of any potential fire hazards in the workplace, teaching staff members appropriate behavior during an emergency and executing fire and other emergency drills. A fire warden is also responsible for teaching staff members about various emergency situations, ensuring all workers are accounted for during an emergency event and assisting any staff members in evacuation if they need the help. What is Covered in Fire Warden Training?...
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...A smouldering fire is a slow, low-temperature, flameless form of combustion which occurs under the conditions of restricted air supply and limited heat loss. In this case, a flame fire could have started, electrically, which might have been transformed into a smouldering one due to a reduction of oxygen in the closed room flat environment. The combustion products of a smouldering fire may be high with a minute amount of mass loss. Thus, deaths in the case of smouldering fires tend to occur after a long time especially if the death has occurred in a room away from the fire origin (Babrauskas, and Krasny, 1997). The 'site' of a flame fire in this case does gently push the smoke of the consequent smouldering fire away from itself, through the half-opened door into the living room. There is no other 'breeze' in the flat to disrupt this air-flow direction of the smoke. The...
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...fire-171229_1280 Charles Dickens may have found a convenient way of disposing of one of his characters. In his novel Bleak House, the character Krook, spontaneously combusts. But even back in the nineteenth century the world-view of spontaneous human combustion was beginning to change. Scientific discoveries were regarded as the highest forms of human endeavor and spontaneous human combustion was soon to be rejected as legend and superstition. Yet, in the 21st century many questions still remain and some say, defied explanation. The fact was that there were over 200 cases of people who had burnt to a crisp over the past 300 years, something that seems difficult to discount. Strange cases of people reduced to a pile of ashes with a skull, torso...
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...Explain the fire principals of wildland fires. And how their behavior differs from structure fires. The basic fire principals consist of five principals that go into fire behavior. Principal one is the fire triangle or Tetrahedron. The fire triangle consists of having heat, fuel, and oxygen. Removing one of these elements from the triangle and the fire will eventually die out. Principal two is method of heat transfer. Therefore, if heat is transfer from direct contact, liquid or air. A fire of some sort could arise. Methods such as convection, conduction, and radiation. Which is known to be the number one cause of any fire exposure. Principal three in stages and fire growth. This talks about the stages of a fires lowest point of ignition...
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...Accidents happen when we least expect them. When your premises catches fire, it can be one of the most traumatizing moments in your life. A fire accident on any property is a recipe for disaster. It pinches hard to see your favorite things blazed in the fire. Sometimes the damage is so severe that you cannot be in a position to salvage anything. Remember that at that time, you are normally in shock and confused on what to do next. If you find yourself in that situation, it is advisable that you seek the services of a professional to come and do fire damage restoration. This undertaking is very important to you as a property owner because it will go a long way in restoring your premises to a condition that is fit for human habitation. The following...
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...span of a decade. Situations have become more severe in nature and, as a result, have called for more drastic actions. Fire fighters lay down their life for others every day and ask for nothing.. With a job that receives little credibility and does not pay nearly as much as it should, the benefits of such a life-threatening career do not seem remotely close to being worth the strenuous amount of effort that it requires. Though some may choose to deny it, firefighting has now become one of the most dangerous occupations out there. Dangers with the career field of Fire Science start with the applying and regulating of rules and codes. A prime example is OSHA’s...
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...with those concepts in relation to psychosis. In comparing and contrasting two different studies: “An investigation of firesetting recidivism: Factors related to repeat offending” and “Is Arson the Crime Most Strongly Associated With Psychosis? —A National Case-Control Study of Arson Risk in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses” the main goal is to delve deeper into what the mental health-based risk-factors associated with arson may be. The organization of this review will begin with the similarities shown between the two studies, followed by the differences in their findings. It will conclude with a brief comparison of the methodologies used in conducting these studies and a brief recap of the concepts learned. One of the main similarities between these two journals were the conclusions. Both journals agreed that individuals suffering from any form of psychosis (more specifically schizophrenia) were more likely to be first-time offenders for arson. The first study compounded this with the conclusion that an individual was 20 times more likely to commit arson and be diagnosed with schizophrenia, than a member of the general population committing arson. This echoes a conclusion found in the second study, which stated that fire-setting recidivists were more likely to suffer from “greater levels of psychiatric disturbance” than their non-repeat counterparts. While the studies were similar in that they agreed on the base argument of psychosis increasing probability, they differed greatly...
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...SUTRA 11 Now we are going to discuss smriti, which basically means memory. The sutra says anubhuta vishaya asampramoshah smritih. Anubhuta is the first wor, and anubhuta is translated as experienced. Experience in Sanskrit is called anubhuti, so anubhuta is called experienced, an experience that you have already experienced. Anu means something that follows or follows upon and bhuta means the element. So anubhuta means that which follows the matter field when consciousness or your personal awareness interacts with the matter field and is the tangible experience. Experience is a result of consciousness interacting with the matter fields, and that is anubhuta. Vishaya is an object of the experience that you have, so in general, they are the five matter fields, but they can also be another pattern of intelligence. One samskara can even have another samskara as its object of experience. Like the drink that I am consuming is a pattern of intelligence, and the personality that’s trying to enjoy it is also a pattern of intelligence. So when you interact with an object, an experience is created out of it. If you dissect everything and look into it, you will find just five matter fields interacting with five matter fields but in reality there are just two different patterns of intelligence interacting with each other, not necessarily just five matter fields. . Asampramoshah means kept inside, not letting go or allowing to escape. That is called smritih, memory. ...
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