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  2. Build the Earth - Wikipedia

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    Aerial render of the Build The Earth project on a modified Airocean World Map. Build the Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct ...

  3. Drill tower - Wikipedia

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    A drill tower in Cricklade, England. A drill tower is a tower and training facility for firefighters. It is usually built within a fire station facility for routine exercises and training. [1] The drill tower is typically a multi-level structure simulating high-rise buildings. Heights vary by location.

  4. List of fire department specialty facilities - Wikipedia

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    Milwaukee Fire Department High Pressure Pumping Station (1931), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which provided high pressure water to fight fires in an industrial area, replacing use of a fireboat; Fire Department Headquarters-Fire Alarm Headquarters, Washington, D.C. For training, numerous, often included in fire station facilities, but sometimes ...

  5. Buford Tower - Wikipedia

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    Austin first established a professional fire department in 1916, creating a need for a drill tower where the firefighters could train. [2] On December 26, 1929, City Council authorized construction of a fire drill tower on a parcel of land along the Colorado River downtown, where the river could provide water for testing fire hoses and extinguishing training fires.

  6. Fire lookout tower - Wikipedia

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    A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a mountain or other high vantage point to maximize viewing distance and range, known as view shed .

  7. Fire Information for Resource Management System - Wikipedia

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    The data is collected via MODIS (on board Terra and Aqua) and VIIRS (on board Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21) satellite instruments. [5] The spatial resolution of the MODIS instrument is 1 km × 1 km and 375 m × 375 m for VIIRS. This sets a lower limit on how accurately fires can be placed and whether a detection stems from a single larger or ...

  8. Minecraft server - Wikipedia

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    Famously known as the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft; there is no officially set list of rules, allowing the use of cheats and obscene language in-game. Its map is one of the longest-running server maps in the game. It has since updated to Minecraft version 1.20 after previously running on Minecraft version 1.12 for many years. [28] [29 ...

  9. Red Hill Fire Observation Station - Wikipedia

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    The tower is a 60-foot (18 m) high steel frame Aermotor structure, anchored by bolts into the exposed bedrock, with a glazed steel cab on top reached by an eight-flight staircase. It is located in a grassy clearing of roughly 500 square feet (46 m 2 ), just east of the mountain's summit, along a narrow ridge.