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  2. Essentials of Fire Fighting - Wikipedia

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    The Essentials of Fire Fighting is the required training manual used in countless local fire departments and state/provincial training agencies in every region of the United States and Canada. Since the release of the first edition of this manual in 1978, more than 2.5 million copies of the Essentials of Fire Fighting have been distributed to ...

  3. NFPA 704 - Wikipedia

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    NFPA 704 safety squares on containers of ethyl alcohol and acetone. " NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response " is a standard maintained by the U.S. -based National Fire Protection Association. First "tentatively adopted as a guide" in 1960, [ 1] and revised several times since then ...

  4. Flame spread - Wikipedia

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    Also, test results for heat, smoke, and combustion product release from NFPA 286 are suitable for use as input into fire models for performance-based design, whereas results from NFPA 255 are not. [4] Flame spread rating number is not the rate at which the flame actually spreads along the surface and is not an indication of the fire resistance ...

  5. Biomedical equipment technician - Wikipedia

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    A biomedical engineering/equipment technician/technologist ( 'BMET ') or biomedical engineering/equipment specialist ( BES or BMES) is typically an electro-mechanical technician or technologist who ensures that medical equipment is well-maintained, properly configured, and safely functional. In healthcare environments, BMETs often work with or ...

  6. Fire alarm notification appliance - Wikipedia

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    A fire alarm notification appliance is an active fire protection component of a fire alarm system. A notification appliance may use audible, visible, or other stimuli to alert the occupants of a fire or other emergency condition requiring action. Audible appliances have been in use longer than any other method of notification.

  7. The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes - Wikipedia

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    A UK version of the book with the alternative subtitle The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment was published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 11 November 2021. The book discusses Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet and the 1968 Scottish legal case over his being transgender and the inheritance of his baronetcy.

  8. Smokeproof enclosure - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 978-1-56670-622-3. Bush, Vincent R. (1988). Handbook to the uniform building code: an illustrative commentary. International Conference of Building Officials. Clet, Vince H. (1978). Fire-related codes, laws, and ordinances. Glencoe Press fire science series. Glencoe Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-02-471760-3. Fire Inspector: Principles and ...

  9. Megan's Law - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Megan's Law is the name for a federal law (and informal name for subsequent state laws) in the United States requiring law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders. Laws were created in response to the murder of Megan Kanka. Federal Megan's Law was enacted as a subsection of ...