VIDEO: House under construction totally destroyed with severe fire damage to homes (‘exposures’) on both sides of the house [GRAPHIC LANGUAGE].
Video shows smoke coming from a house under construction that is located between occupied homes on each side. Flames erupt within two minutes from the second floor. The fire proceeds to consume the entire house. The video narrator comments on feeling the heat from one-half block away. The aftermath after the fire is extinguished shows a totally destroyed house with each house on each side severely damaged. One house appeared to only have siding and external structures damaged, but the other house had a well-involved second-floor and roof fire.
Compelling video trailer for a film that isn’t produced yet about Detroit firefighters’ struggle to save a city — structurally and politically.
Is this film coming to a city near you? Are these conditions coming to a city near you?
This could be any city in the United States. Detroit is now. How many will follow? East St. Louis, Chicago, Oakland, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Jose, Miami come to mind.
The Oakland City Council voted June 25, 2010 to eliminate the positions to help close the city’s $32.5 million funding gap. According to the city of Oakland, each of the 776 police officers currently employed at Oakland Police Department costs about $188,000 per year.
As a result of the cutbacks, Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts announced that if you live in Oakland and you are a victim of one of the following, you need to let police know on-line. Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts listed 44 police incidents (partial list below) that would no longer get a police response:
car wrecks
burglary
theft
embezzlement
grand theft
grand theft:dog
identity theft
false information to peace officer
investigation of requirement to register as sex or arson offender
dump waste or offensive matter complaint
discard appliance with lock
loud music complaint
possession forged notes
pass fictitious check
obtain money by false voucher
fraudulent use of access cards
stolen license plate
embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
extortion
attempted extortion
false personification of other
injury/damage with telephone/ power line
interference with power line
unauthorized cable tv connection
vandalism/criminal damage to property
poisoning investigation
identity theft
vandalism
In East St. Louis, firefighters rejected proposals that would have brought back laid-off colleagues to work in exchange for furlough days — an agreement that brought back nineteen police officers in a similar negotiation.
East Saint Louis and Opa Locka, Florida have the highest crime rates in the United States (Opa Locka had the absolute highest crime rate in 2003 and 2004 for cities of any population.) According to FBI’s data of 2007, its murder rate hit 101.9 per population of 100,000, surpassing that of cities such as Compton, California (40.4 per pop. 100,000), Gary, Indiana (48.3 per pop. 100,000), New Orleans, Louisiana (37.6 per pop. 100,000), Richmond, Virginia (38.8), Baltimore, Maryland (43.3), Camden, New Jersey (40.0), Detroit, Michigan (47.3), and Washington, D.C. (29.1), as well as that of its neighbor St. Louis (37.2).
In 1976 East St. Louis had entire neighborhoods burned out after a massive urban fire.
Video of scene before and during arrival of Chicago firefighters at ET Muffler 4801 Foster Avenue.
Sparks from tools may have started a fire that engulfed the ET Muffler shop about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Chicago Fire Department called out a 2-11 Alarm or second alarm for firefighters and equipment at 6:50 p.m. No reports of any injuries.
Cellphone video from commuter that was on the train platform near Metra 609 that struck a vehicle on southbound River Road.
Timothy F. Jones, 51, of Hawthorn Woods is identified as the male driver of a crash with a train that caused his fatal injuries about 8:08 a.m. Wednesday. Alcohol is not suspect in the investigation, but witnesses have reported that he appeared to try to drive around the train gates.
Calmer winds helped firefighters make progress on a wildfire that has burned about 15 square miles in central Washington State. Firefighters say they have contained about 15 percent of the blaze.
TV Video news team from Los Angeles catches titanium explosion and firefighters hosing down a fire engine to protect it from exposure to intense heat.
A fire and explosion at a titanium storage warehouse at 731 or 761 E. Slauson Ave, Los Angeles blew pieces of molten titanium shrapnel into the air, and injured three firefighters and a newsman. The fire destroyed at least six buildings.
More than 100 firefighters responded to the burning commercial structure housing United Alloys and Metals just before midnight Tuesday, which was followed by an explosion about 12:25 a.m. Wednesday that caused minor burns to two firefighters and a news videographer. Another firefighter also suffered hearing damage. One other explosion also occurred.
When exposed to elevated temperatures in air, titanium readily reacts with oxygen. This occurs at 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) in air, and at 610 °C (1,130 °F) in pure oxygen, forming titanium dioxide. As a result, the metal cannot be melted in open air since it burns before the melting point is reached. Melting is only possible in an inert atmosphere or in a vacuum.
Titanium can react explosively when contacted with water or even humid air.
Fire crews had to wait for the titanium to burn itself out, since putting water on an alloy like titanium cause flames to flare up, fire officials said.
Titanium can catch fire when a fresh, non-oxidized surface comes in contact with liquid oxygen. Such surfaces can appear when the oxidized surface is struck with a hard object, or when a mechanical strain causes the emergence of a crack. This poses the possible limitation for its use in liquid oxygen systems, such as those found in the aerospace industry.
As a powder or in the form of metal shavings, titanium metal poses a significant fire hazard and, when heated in air, an explosion hazard. Water and carbon dioxide-based methods to extinguish fires are ineffective on burning titanium. Class D dry powder fire fighting agents are used on small fires. If a fire is too big, there might not be enough Class D dry powder to extinguish the fire, which is then allowed to burn out while firefighters protect surrounding buildings that are exposed to the fire. Experts recommend that tanker trucks or rail cars containing titanium powder that are involved in fire be evacuated for one-half mile in all directions. Titanium fires also produce irritating, corrosive and toxic gases, and inhalation of the decomposition products in the gases can cause severe injury and death.
The type of titanium store in warehouse has not been released. The cause of the titanium fire is under investigation.
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