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…the leader of California’s largest fire service organization criticized the private firefighters in an interview. I’m not surprised that government firefighters don’t approve of private competitors, so the final part of the excerpt is wrong-headed but predictable. What’s perverse, though, is...
of Unmanned Systems International had hosted two Firefighting Table Top Exercises FF-TTX, Monetery CA, 2009 and Dugway UT, 2010 in partnership with the US Forest Service and the Naval Postgraduate School to provide a platform for unmanned system community to interact with wildland firefighters. The...
Department of Education…was basically a payoff to the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, for their 1976 support of Jimmy Carter’s presidential candidacy. …What we have gotten… One thing we do know is that total, inflation‐adjusted federal education spendin...
Over the next two days, around a hundred firefighters, volunteers, and national wildfire resources (such as aerial and management support) worked to get the fire under control (Idh 2021). In total, 20 semistructured interviews with persons involved in the two incidents were conducted. The ...
Lavender SA, Hedman GE, Mehta JP, Reichelt PA, Conrad KM, Park S (2014) Evalu- ating the physical demands on firefighters using hand-carried stair descent devices to evacuate mobility-limited occupants from high-rise buildings. Appl Ergonom 45(3):389– 397 37. Lavender SA, Mehta JP, ...
of Unmanned Systems International had hosted two Firefighting Table Top Exercises FF-TTX, Monetery CA, 2009 and Dugway UT, 2010 in partnership with the US Forest Service and the Naval Postgraduate School to provide a platform for unmanned system community to interact with wildland firefighters. The...
By definition, DC systems don’t have unfunded liabilities. Here’sa summaryof the difference between the two approaches put together by the South Carolina-based Palmetto Promise. The ALEC report notes that the two states with no unfunded liabilities use the DC approach. ...
This is one of the main reasons I want toeliminate DC-based redistributionand let states be in charge of social welfare policy. Using the same reasoning, I’ve also explained why it would be good news if California seceded. People tend to bea bit more rationalwhen it’s more obvious that...
Mazumder NU, Hossain MT, Jahura FT, Girase A, Hall AS, Lu J, Ormond RB (2023) Firefighters’ exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as an occupational hazard: a review. Front Mater Sci 10:1143411. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2023.1143411 Article Google Scholar McAdoo...