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Chicago Fire Department fireboat Christopher Wheatley (2015). The Christopher Wheatley is a fireboat delivered to the Chicago Fire Department in 2011. [1] [2] [3] When she was delivered in April 2011, she was the first new fireboat to serve the city in sixty years.
Emergency responders along an icy Interstate 94 in Comstock Township, Michigan, ran for their lives Thursday morning when a box truck driver lost control, skidded along the slippery highway and ...
A fire truck responding to an accident in Missouri lost control on ice, sending it violently spinning down a neighborhood street, video shows.
Ventilation is a part of structural firefighting tactics, and involves the expulsion of heat and smoke from a burning building, permitting the firefighters to more easily and safely find trapped individuals and attack the fire. It is frequently performed from the outside of a burning building while the fire is being extinguished on the inside.
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
Australian Shepherd Stops People in Their Tracks After Howling Just Like a Fire Truck. Natalie Hoage. October 14, 2024 at 9:00 AM. ... Follow us on YouTube for more entertaining videos. Or, ...
This high flame temperature is partially due to the absence of hydrogen in the fuel (dicyanoacetylene is not a hydrocarbon) thus there is no water among the combustion products. Cyanogen, with the formula (CN) 2, produces the second-hottest-known natural flame with a temperature of over 4,525 °C (8,177 °F) when it burns in oxygen. [11] [12]
It was in service there since the 1980s. The fire department took good care of the engine while it was in service. [2] The 2nd Engine 51 is a 1000gpm triple combination P-80 Ambassador model powered by a Cummins NH855 250hp naturally aspirated diesel engine driving through an Allison HT-70 power-shift transmission.