Full size image Moisture content outputs of the FWI system are used as inputs to other models (such as spread rate prediction in the FBP system) and are also used operationally by fire managers as relative indicators of the expected number of fires in their regions. Similarly, the relative ...
If that means stoking the fires of fear, conspiracy, intolerance, and superstition intermixed with a thick larding of revisionist history, so be it. The Liberals are likely a bit more palatable. If just by a hair. They are probably nicer in handing out their poison but just as deadly. The...
CANADIAN FORCES FLIGHT SAFETY INVESTIGATION (FSI) REPORT FILE NUMBER: DATE OF REPORT: 1010-CT155202 12 June 2007 AIRCRAFT TYPE: DATE/TIME: LOCATION: CATEGORY: CT155 - Hawk 142230Z (1630L) May 04 15 Wing Moose Jaw, SK "A" Category Accident This report was produced under authority of the...
Instead of serving from coffee pots, you have the coffee roasted and ground on location. Instead of buffets, guests are looking for live cooking. The halls also have to be right, neat, and in theme. The guests see everything from the parking lot to the toilet. If something is not right...
From the individual entrepreneur saving money for tax time, to the property management company emergency funds to cover possible fires, floods or other unforeseen events, to the shop owner buying the newest state of the art equipment, it’s all about investing in the future. As a business owne...
The overall tally for Canadian Stab-Lok type breakers is now 115 tested, 27 failed calibration test, and 1 jammed (no trip at 200%). The sample size is now sufficient to conclude with a reasonable level of certainty that the Canadian product is not substantially different from the USA pro...
Forest fires are extremely costly hazards in terms of lives, natural resources and infrastructures. In the last decades, the low predictability of ignition due to anthropogenic factors have increasingly put a strain on forestry agencies1 as well as on local economies. According to NOAA’s National...
Blue points indicate sampled sites, orange shapes indicate sampled fires, and grey shapes indicate other 2014 fires in the region. Inset indicates relative location within North America. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web ...
Full size table Fires are the main natural disturbance in the study area, but scatteredAbies balsameastands have been subjected to spruce budworm outbreaks every 30–40 years during the last century (Bouchard et al.2007). The length of the fire cycle has been longer since the end of the Lit...
One was lost fighting fires, one was considered irreparably damaged in a 1962 storm, and the last two of the named JRMs, Hawaii Mars and Philippine Mars, served as giant firefighters from the mid-1960s well into the 21st Century. They were based on Sproat Lake at Port Alberni located ...