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Travoprost. Travoprost, sold under the brand name Travatan among others, is a medication used to treat high pressure inside the eye including glaucoma. [4] Specifically it is used for open angle glaucoma when other agents are not sufficient. [5] [4] It is used as an eye drop. [4] Effects generally occur within two hours.
Free-fire zone. A free-fire zone in U.S. military parlance is a fire control measure, used for coordination between adjacent combat units. The definition used in the Vietnam War by U.S. troops may be found in field manual FM 6-20: A specific designated area into which any weapon system may fire without additional coordination with the ...
Fire ship. The burning of the Royal James at the Battle of Solebay, 28 May 1672. A fire ship or fireship is a large wooden vessel set on fire to be used against enemy ships during a ramming attack or similar maneuver. Fireships were used to great effect against wooden ships throughout naval military history up until the advent of metal-hulled ...
Fireboats of New York City. For much of the late 19th and early 20th century, New York City maintained a fleet of ten fireboats. In recent decades technology has improved to where smaller boats can provide the pumping capacity that required a large boat in the past. [1] These smaller boats require smaller crews, and the crews themselves require ...
Fireboats in Seattle, Washington. First fireboat on North America's west coast. [1] Duwamish was originally built with a "ram" bow, so she could sink a blazing vessel before it set other vessels ablaze. [1] Currently a museum ship.
The two water cannon, each capable of pumping 12,000 gallons per minute, can be remotely controlled from the cabin. The lifeguard department's previous rescue and fire vessel had just a single water cannon, capable of pumping only 500 gallons per minute. The vessel cost $1 million, and its projected life is 25 years. San Diego Harbor Police
Marine One is a $1.5 million fireboat, retired as a cost saving measure, by Savannah, Georgia, in November, 2018. [1] [2] Savannah acquired the boat in 2014, with $1.2 million of its cost paid for through a FEMA Port Security Grant. [3] Like all fireboats paid for through FEMA grants, the fireboat is equipped to work during disasters where it ...
Category:Fireboats. Category. : Fireboats. This category is about fireboats, water-borne vessels specifically designed to extinguish fires. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fireboats.