#firefighting

[dougielombax]

Who the fuck thinks it’s a good idea to privatise emergency services?!

Apart from stupid Tories and terminally divorced tech bros.

“No, really. It’ll work this time!” - Capitalism.

I feel SICK!

“The Free Market Fire Department!

We’ll stop your house from burning down, but only if you pay a small fee of $500 and sign this contract.”

“But I don’t have $500.”

“Then you’re just gonna have to fucking die!”

Ghastly shit.

Perish the thought!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #vent post #political crap #leftism #anti capitalism #emergency services #firefighting #ambulance #fucking hell #fuck tories #fuck capitalism #fuck brexit #fuck conservatives #fucking morons #fuck’s sake #privatization #bad ideas #very bad ideas #do not do #this will not work #the it crowd #fuck Graham Linehan #fire #four #five #hell world #shitworld #sick shit #idiocy

[wikipediapictures]

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

#Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances #pfas #pfass #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #afff #aqueous film forming foam #firefighter #firefighters #first responders #firefighting #firefighting foam #chemistry #chemicals #science

[ilikeit-art]

Which is more powerful Water or Fire?

#firefighting

[wile-e-quixote]

A Heathen Firefighter's Prayer

I stand now for my people

I stand now for our land

If this battle prove my end

I die with tool in hand

Surtr slew my loved ones

Surtr razed our lands

We rally now to meet him

Today we make a stand

Your embers do not scare us

Nor wind that stokes your flame

Our iron flattens mountains

Our sky-ships make it rain

We'll wrap you like a serpent

Your blazing we will quench

Your march ends here now at us

You'll not gain another inch

May the Gods now bear us witness

And should any of us fall

May our deeds now buy us favor

And welcome in the Hall

#heathenry #heathenism #asatru #poetry #firefighter #freyr #pagan #norse polytheism #wildfires #firefighting #surtr

[fire-ecology]

Balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii, aka grasstree) looking beautiful as they go up during the worst fire of the season. You can see how many embers are being thrown from just two little grasstrees.

Balga are highly adapted to fire and are usually the first plant to resprout after the fire - within a week or two.

This was the last fire I worked on, the Wooroloo fire, back in Jan 2021, Western Australia, before getting my fire science job! 🔥

📸 @fire-ecology

#fire ecology #fire #plant science #botany #plants #op #ecology #wildfire #bushfire #australia #firefighting

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Around 8:30 a.m. on May 13, 1949, a drum of carbon disulfide fell off a trailer truck when it was about one-third of the way through the Holland Tunnel. The highly flammable chemical leaked out onto the hot surface of the truck. The flames spewing out from the truck caused a chain reaction.  Four nearby trucks caught fire almost instantly, and as the fire grew, five more trucks burst into flames.

Minutes after the fire began, Port Authority Police officers began helping drivers out of the tunnel. They called in the New York Fire Department, which entered from the Manhattan side, and the Jersey City Fire Department, from the Jersey side. The firefighters had to work their way through heavy fumes and more than a hundred vehicles. It was estimated that the temperature from the flames was about 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. By 10:15, all the vehicles not on fire had been removed from the Jersey entrance, which simplified the firefighting efforts. By 1:00 pm, the blaze was largely extinguished, but at 4:20 it re-flashed. Burning liquid flowed through the tunnel's gutters, causing explosions.

The fire destroyed 600 feet of ceiling and inner walls, as well as 10 large trucks. It took a crew 16 hours to remove their remains, as well as that of 13 other trucks that were partially damaged. More than 650 tons of debris were removed from the tunnel by a crew working around the clock. Total damage was estimated at $1 million, or $7.5 million in today's dollars. There were no fatalities, but 67 people were injured.

The fire also disrupted phone, telegraph, radio, and TV connections between New York and points south and west of the Hudson.

The fire should never have happened. Trucks were required to display decals indicating that they were carrying hazardous goods, but the truck that caused the fire had no such decals. If it had, police wouldn't have allowed it into the tunnel but redirected it to one of the bridges. Nevertheless, the driver received only a $50 fine and five days in jail. But the event did lead to the creation of new rules and harsher penalties for those who violated them.

The tunnel was back in operation in two days.

For more on the fire, see here.

Photos: top, Leon Hoffman via Corbis/Port Authority of NY & NJ; second & third, Port Authority of NY & NJ; bottom, Hoboken Historical Museum via FDNY

#vintage New York #1940s #Leon Hoffman #disaster #Holland Tunnel #fire #May 13 #13 May #firefighting #firefighters

[notbloom]

I have never wanted to complain so much about one characters design.

WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO MY BOY- So for the first time in ever I wanted to try and draw Heatwave since, well I want to learn more about his body structures. Should be easy, right? Well I was WRONG. first of all, his nose, HIS NOSE IS FUCKING SQUARE, HIS HEAD, CHEST, ARMS, LEGS, LADDER, BACK THINGIE WATER TANK WHATEVER, FINGERS, ARMS, IDK WHAT ELSE, HIS LIGHTS? Ever since I wanted to try and draw Heatwave I kept giving up. I literally asked myself 'Did this motherfucker of a truck come from the Minecraft universe or what? Who made this bitch square?' Did he meet up with Steve or Alex or someone to make his ass square as hell to the fact I just gotta draw just a few circles and most of his body SQUARE and you'll just KNOW It's him by just looking at him. I made a deformed Heatwave for y'all so <3 He looks so cute and handsome does he? (I am going to murder myself.)

#heatwave #rescue bots heatwave #transformers #robots #firetruck #minecraft #steve #alex #firefighting #drawing #square #minecraft universe #wtf is this #like wtf #deformed heatwave

[katy-l-wood]

I was originally going to get this notebook printed through Denik, but they decided to be stupid and remove their large lined notebook options, so I just bound the notebook myself because I couldn’t find another option that looked the way I wanted.

Tried some new techniques with this one, including printed boards which I LOVE, and a new glue that I HATE, lol. Overall it came out pretty good but there are a handful of mistakes. Totally useable, though! And the printer I used for the boards sent me enough extras to make 4 notebooks, so I might make some more when I’m willing to sit down and deal with my at home printer to make more pages. Doing it 8.5x11 size means I have to manually feed the 11x17 sheets into the printer one. at. a. time. And I have to do each one twice to print both sides. Takes fucking forever.

The art on the cover is by an artist named Aleksei Kuz’mich Denisov-Uralsky in the early 1900s. It is one of the most famous paintings of a wildfire.

The back cover is an illustration done by me, featuring a bunch of vintage equipment referenced from the Smithsonian.

The endpapers are lists of important training information for wildland firefighters.

#Bookbinding #Book binding #Journal Binding #Firefighting #Wildland Firefighting

[robinjamievk]

just some gay things:

gay secondary schools: gymnasium, art school

gay sports: gymnastics, volunteer firefighting, rugby

gay things in general: having online friends, liking your best friend, shipping wolfstar, being a marauders fan, not being able to sit normally, liking taylor

#gay #the marauders #taylor swift #gymnastics #art school #gymnasium #firefighting #rugby #wolfstar

[touchdownbane]

Vessel lined up in a marina, on the left is a local fireboat

#sea #maritime #nautical #ocean #nauticalcore #sailing #ships #seashore #fireboat #firefighting #coastlife #coast line

[dougielombax]

No!

Firefighters should not go around starting fires!

Otherwise it’d make the name of their profession a bit of an oxymoron.

Wouldn’t it?!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #firefighting #fire brigade #fire department #civil defence

[wachinyeya]

#good news #science #environmentalism #nature #environment #firefighting #power of mama #women #borneo #indonesia #wildfires

[ladylookslikeadude1]

No secret, but I love your aideku. However,I spotted 911 and thought, what about tired af Aizawa meeting adrenalin junkie Izuku who loves to run into burning buildings (fire fighter).

Yes! Oh, that's such a fun idea! I really enjoy watching 9-1-1, and AiDeku is pretty much always eating my brain, so this was super fun to write!

Izuku is smart, ok?  He knows, all too well, that despite how ‘inclusive’ schools and jobs claim they are, he’s always going to get the short end of the stick.  That’s just how being Quirkless works.  But.  But.  There are a certain…subset of jobs that are more inclusive than others.  And Izuku, as much as he liked to pretend he was a perfectly reasonable human being, is an adrenaline junkie.

He was running toward hero fights as a child, this should not come as a surprise to anyone who knew him for more than five seconds.  Firefighting was a job that downright welcomed Quirkless people, and people who had ‘useless’ Quirks.  And there was a sense of comradery that he’d never felt anywhere else.

So instead of running toward hero fights, Izuku started running into fires.  And he did it the same way he’d run toward the hero fights-without a single second more thought than necessary to his own safety.  Which is how he met Pro Hero Eraserhead, who watched him run into fire fearlessly time and time again.

Shouta would never tell Izuku this, but watching Izuku kneel in front of a scared, silently crying child and producing a singed teddy bear was the first time he realized he wanted Izuku.  He wanted the firm, unfailing kindness and focus directed at him outside of work-now he just had to figure out how to get it.

#firefighting #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #my hero academia fanfiction #boku no hero academia fanfiction #my writing #my fanfiction #writing prompt answers #ladylookslikeadudeanswers

[vidsational]

#firefighter #firefighting #fire #fire truck #reelsvideo

[firefightingwhiletrans]

Week One

Week one was, in short, a roaring success.

I had emailed my instructors beforehand, and they all had a positive response to my gender identity and my desire to remain stealth, at least for the time being. I've made a good impression on my instructors, I've made friends, and I'm optimistic about my future in fire.

That said, I've learned a couple things.

First, binding with KT tape isn't going to be sustainable long-term. It was incredibly euphoric to have a flat chest without having to wear a binder, but my awareness of it never faded into the background like it does with a binder. Additionally, my chest looked like a crime scene after removing it. The skin is raw and sensitive, but there's only a few blisters on the sides. I'm switching to proper Trans Tape, and I'm hoping between that and the healing salve, taping will prove to be sustainable. I can't do the intense workouts required of me in a binder, so if it ends up being more the the same I'm just going to have to deal with raw, sensitive skin for the foreseeable future. Here's hoping things work out.

Secondly, I need to have some kind of snack before working out. And electrolyte drinks are a must. Day one of working out, our trainer threw us right in the deep end, and I was maybe five minutes from upchucking by the end of it. It was intense, we were all struggling, but we cheered each other on and made it to the end without anyone passing out.

The academy I'm in is run out of my local college, and is a two year long AAS program. I'm really excited to see where these next two years are going to take me!

-Fin

#firefighting while trans #fire #firefighting #fire academy #college #school #trans #transgender #adventure #transmasc #trans man #transmasculine #ftm #trans guy #transgender man #trans tape #chest binding

[ferdifz]

Using Sound as a Fire Extinguisher (Jan. 2024)

Yeah yeah, it might not seem to be working like, very well but I’m just saying, this seems like there’s something here that’s here.

Personally I’d love it if some engineering or chemistry lab somewhere at some university would explore this possibility some more.

(And maybe some student somewhere, is... You never can really know now, can you...)

#youtube #fz_webVideos #firefighting #soundwaves #science #engineering #OSHA