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2. Fireplace - Wikipedia

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   A fire is contained in a firebox or fire pit; a chimney or other flue allows exhaust gas to escape. A fireplace may have the following: a foundation, a hearth, a firebox, a mantel , a chimney crane (used in kitchen and laundry fireplaces), a grate, a lintel , a lintel bar, an overmantel , a damper , a smoke chamber, a throat, a flue, and a ...

3. Firewall (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Design loads – Fire wall must withstand a minimum 5 lb/sq ft (24 kg/m 2), and additional seismic loads. [7] Substation transformer firewalls are typically free-standing modular walls custom designed and engineered to meet application needs. Building fire walls typically extend through the roof and

4. Backdraft - Wikipedia

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   A backdraft (North American English), backdraught (British English) [1] or smoke explosion is the abrupt burning of superheated gases in a fire caused when oxygen rapidly enters a hot, oxygen-depleted environment; for example, when a window or door to an enclosed space is opened or broken. Backdrafts are typically seen as a blast of smoke and ...

5. Margaret Esherick House - Wikipedia

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   The rear living room window from inside, with two bottom shutters open and six top shutters closed; The bookcase at the front of the living room, with bottom shutter open and top shutter closed; The free-standing chimney outside the narrow living room window above the fireplace; The kitchen, which was designed by Wharton Esherick; The gallery ...

6. Franklin stove - Wikipedia

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   A Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [2]

7. Inmates Break Windows and Start Fires During Prison Riot in ...

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   Prisoners smashed windows, lit fires and chanted to onlookers during a riot at the City Justice Center in St Louis, Missouri, on April 4.The inmates can be heard chanting “we want court dates ...