Fire broke out at a two-storey building housing a purse manufacturing factory in Delhi. At least six workers, including four women, were killed and 10 injured in the fire that destroyed the factory.
On Sunday morning, crews battled nearly a dozen deliberately-set fires in St. Boniface. Police said it’s too early to tell if the fires are the work of one person or a group of people.
“Three years ago, there was almost no oil being moved by rail. It’s been growing incredibly rapidly and its projected to keep growing that way and the safety standards in Canada simply have not kept up to the new ways to move new kinds of oil,” a Greenpeace spokesperson said.
A police vehicle was set on fire in New Brunswick as police began enforcing an injunction to end an ongoing demonstration against shale gas exploration.
http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/100780/Cop-cars-set-on-fire-by-molotov-cocktails
When a sudden cardiac arrest strikes every second is crucial so 60 police patrol vehicles and 19 fire department staff vehicles in Vancouver, Washington have been equipped with automated external defibrillators.
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/oct/01/aed-defibrillator-hearts-police-fire-vehicle/#.Uk2EiIakqk0
From time to time, we hear about a battery catching fire or even exploding in a smartphone or tablet. Samsung is trying to change that with new flexible battery technology. The difference has to do with metal deposits that can cause leakage and short circuits.
A New York court held that a defendant had not presented sufficient evidence that computer fire modeling was generally accepted as reliable in the fire investigation community.
http://www.subrogationrecoverylawblog.com/2010/07/articles/subro-roundup/new-york-court-rejects-defendants-fire-modeling/
Researchers have been working on a system to measure and predict the destructiveness of wildfires – similar to the way officials use the magnitude scale for earthquakes. In the 1970s, wildfires destroyed about 400 homes across the US. Since 2000, wildfires have destroyed about 3000 homes per year, according to NIST.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-developing-richter-scale-for-fires/story-fni0xqll-1226726456432
Dude fire (1990) – six firefighters die. Esperanza fire (2006) – five Forest Service firefighters die. Yarnell Hill (2013) – 19 firefighters die. For what? “It is OK to retreat from danger until conditions become more favourable for safe and successful fire-suppression efforts.”
The Winnipeg fire chief, who was named chief two years ago, had been embroiled in controversy over an unusual land swap and sale of fire halls. His dismissal comes shortly before the anticipated release of a detailed audit report on the land swap deal.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-councillors-suspicious-of-fire-chiefs-dismissal-1.1868187