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Confine - Confine the fire to the affected parts of the structure. This is the second part of preventing the spread of the fire and typically involves offensive attacks and activation of any passive fire protection systems. Extinguish - Actively extinguish the fire through the use of various firefighting methods.
Counter-battery fire; Coup de grâce: a death blow intended to end the suffering of a wounded soldier; also applied to severely damaged ships (called scuttling when applied to friendly ships). Coup de main: a swift pre-emptive strike. Debellatio: to end a war by complete destruction of a hostile state. More severe than sacking.
Company officer : A fire officer, typically a lieutenant or captain, who leads a team of two or more firefighters in a tactical company. Compartment fire: An "Isolated" fire, or a fire which is "boxed in" or "closed off" from the rest of the structure. An example of this is a fire in a room where all the windows and doors are closed preventing ...
This article lists and summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), [1] [better source needed] historians and lawyers will frequently make a serious case in order to prove ...
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
Former Vice President Kamala Harris inspired some ridicule online after she offered a "word salad"-esque statement about the nature of "community" as she spoke to firefighters in California.
Survivors reported that the U-boat surfaced and ran down the lifeboats, machine-gunning survivors in the water. The U-boat captain, Helmut Brümmer-Patzig, was charged with war crimes in Germany following the war, but escaped prosecution by going to the Free City of Danzig, beyond the jurisdiction of German courts. [83]
A woman before her own time. Despite those odds, Werntz rose from a stenographer from 1970 to 1973 to an investigator of sex crimes from 1980 to 1985 and to a training director from 1988 to 1992 ...