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In the United States, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group operates a nationwide, web-based database system for managing wildland firefighting resources.The system, called National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System or Resource Ordering and Status System, (or simply ROSS), improves efficiency of borrowing and sending home of fire equipment in a large, campaign-type fire.
The project is expected to unfold over the next ten years. The Department of National Defence confirmed that approximately 17,000 integrated soldier systems would be bought by 2011. [2] [3] The ISSP will address the remaining NATO Soldier System capabilities of Lethality, Mobility and Survivability, while balancing the baseline needs.
GendBuntu is a version of Ubuntu adapted for use by France's National Gendarmerie.The Gendarmerie have pioneered the use of open source software on servers and personal computers since 2005 when it adopted the OpenOffice.org office suite, making the OpenDocument.odf format its nationwide standard.
The Federal Fire Prevention Act enabled a national reporting system for fires around the country. This system is called the National Fire Incident Reporting System or NFIRS. The purpose of this system is to collect demographics, statistics, characteristics, and other pertinent information about fires which is compiled into a database.
The concept of a fuel model was first introduced in 1972 with the National Fire Danger Rating System.The first system of its kind, the NFDRS was a standardized set of equations to determine fire danger at specific points on the landscape. [3]
The first 12-team College Football Playoff field is finally set, and not without some controversy.But the games that will decide the national championship are nonetheless almost here and, as the ...
The National Fire Information Council (NFIC) is a United States agency that encourages and perpetuates the use of a standardized national incident reporting system (the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)) as a means of addressing the nation's fire problem and related emergency services issues.
Whale watchers in northern California were treated with a sighting of a very pale orca nicknamed Frosty. A video taken by Evan Brodsky of the Monterrey Bay Whale Watch shows the white orca ...