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Multiple communications failures hurt emergency response to Maui wildfires – report
Inoperative cell towers left residents and tourists with few options to receive emergency alerts like evacuation orders. And the closed systems used by police created a dam of information that was not being relayed in a timely way to the mayor and emergency officials, the report said.
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An Introduction to Flashover - Episode 9
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4K Slow Motion Backdraft
Gav and Dan film one of the most dangerous occurrences in a firefighter's occupation in terrifying 4K slow motion.
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Rural brigades boss hoses down talk of national firefighting force
A key group representing Queensland's volunteer fire brigades pours water on the idea of a "semi-professional firefighting service" akin to the Army Reserve, saying it could alienate those already tackling this year's bushfire season.
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‘There’s nothing like this’: Firefighters unleash new bushfire war machine
Dozens of fires are burning as the state braces for a potentially terrifying bushfire season. The RFS is firing up a new weapon to help save homes and lives.
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Decolonising Fire Science
We can expect that the science of fire should intersect with fire use by First Peoples, because an understanding of fire that enabled cultures to coexist with it for at least 65,000 years must have its roots in scientific reality. Our understanding of that relationship is, however, deeply troubled.
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Bushfire smoke eats up the ozone protecting us from dangerous radiation. The damage will increase as the world heats up
Over 30 years ago, the world banned CFC chemicals to save the ozone layer. But now, climate-fuelled bushfire smoke is putting it at renewed risk
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American billionaire's controversial NYE pyrotechnic bonanza starts fire near Queenstown, New Zealand
The fact Malkin went ahead with the fireworks in the face of widespread opposition was unneighbourly and showed a bit of a "screw you" attitude,” Quinn said.
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Fire fighting at night on the NSW South Coast
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A Quiet Rise in Wildland-Firefighter Suicides
America’s firefighting community is grappling with a troubling trend amid brutal fire seasons. By Heather Hansman.
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The Perfect Fire
It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives. By Sean Flynn.
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Superheroes Are Real
They jump out of planes. They fly onto the field of battle. They run, chainsaws in hand, into 20-foot flames against the ultimate opponent: Mother Nature. By Rachel Monroe. [Autoplay]
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Firelight Along the Frontier
The fire department working a desolate New Mexico mesa is made up of 15 anarchists and recluses and led by a friendly giant whose job is to be an administrator in a place that defies administration. By Michael Canyon Meyer.
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