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Sparky the Fire Dog. Sparky the Fire Dog is the official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association. Created in 1951 to promote fire safety education for children, [9] [10] he is a Dalmatian dressed in firefighting gear. A children's book about Sparky by Don Hoffman was published in 2011.
Most Fire & Rescue Services now use their own individual mascots and cartoon characters to teach children about the importance of fire safety. During the late 1990s / early 2000s Welephant was gradually phased out from UK Fire Service merchandising and safety campaigns, but he continued to be used extensively as the Mascot for the National Fire ...
Alongside first prediction of a particular technology, the list may include all subsequent works mentioning it until its invention. The list includes technologies that were first posited in non-fiction works before their appearance in science fiction and subsequent invention, such as ion thruster .
An analysis by The Times found that 83% of the more than 9,400 structures destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside Cal Fire’s “very high” fire hazard severity zones, while only 0.1% of ...
Mascot of GNU, "GNU", with "Tux", the mascot of Linux. This is a list of computing mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity. In case of computing mascots, they either represent software, hardware, or any project or collective entity behind them.
Cal Fire currently has 14 Fire Hawks in its fleet, with the other two arriving in 2025. The newest helicopters are a heavy-duty complement to Cal Fire’s fleet of 34-year-old UH-1H Super Huey ...
Fire Technology is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scientific research dealing with fire hazards facing humans and the environment. [1] It publishes original contributions, both theoretical and empirical, that contribute to the solution of problems in fire safety and related fields.
Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires. [1] [2] It involves the study of the behaviour, compartmentalisation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as well as the research and development, production, testing and application of mitigating systems.