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A hydraulic spreader in use, seen here widening a window on the door of a Volkswagen Golf Mk2 to allow fire crews access into the vehicle. The Hurst Rescue Tool was invented by George Hurst, circa 1961, after he viewed a stock car race accident in which it took workers over an hour to remove an injured driver from his car.
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There seems to be a discrepancy between the invention of the Hurst Tool between the introduction paragraph and the History section. The introduction has a 1963 date and the History says 1972. I got my start in the Fire/Rescue service in the mid 70's and remember departments making their first purchases of the tool during that time, so I lean ...
In 1987, the Hurst operations were sold by Sunbeam and became part of the Mr. Gasket Company. In 2007, B&M Racing and Performance Products bought the Hurst brand. [5] A subsidiary, called Hurst Performance Vehicles, was established in 2008 to create new renditions of Hurst vehicles that included the Hurst Challenger, Hurst Viper, and the Hurst ...
The Hurst Fire, at 799 acres, was almost fully contained, it said. Los Angeles County Robert Luna said that as of Wednesday morning, fewer people were under evacuation orders, noting 82,400 people ...
Cal Fire reported that the Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth and Hurst fires have consumed about 62 square miles (160 square kilometers). The Palisades Fire, along the coast, has been blamed for eight deaths, while the Eaton Fire farther inland has been blamed for 16 others, the LA County medical examiner's office said. At least 23 people are missing.
In fractal geometry, the generalized Hurst exponent has been denoted by H or H q in honor of both Harold Edwin Hurst and Ludwig Otto Hölder (1859–1937) by Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010). [3] H is directly related to fractal dimension , D , and is a measure of a data series' "mild" or "wild" randomness.
At that point, the car ran without the Hurst logo and was simply known as the "Hemi Under Glass." Riggle's career ended in 1975 with a devastating accident at US 30 Dragway in Gary, Indiana. Popular model kits of the car were produced in 1/32 scale by Aurora Plastics Corporation and in 1/25 scale by Model Products Corporation.