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Book Synopsis America's Fires by : Stephen J. Pyne
Download or read book America's Fires written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America's Fires reviews the historical context of our fire issues and policies that can inform the current and future debate. The forecast makes it imperative that the nation review its policies toward wildland fires and find ways to live with them more intelligently"--Provided by publisher.
Author :United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :204 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis America Burning by : United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
Download or read book America Burning written by United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking aspect of the Nation's fire problem is the indifference with which Americans confront the subject. Destructive fire takes a huge toll in lives, injuries, and property losses, yet there is no need to accept those losses with resignation. There are many measures, often very simple precautions, that can be taken to reduce those losses significantly. To encourage solutions to these problems, the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control has made recommendations in this report.
Book Synopsis Between Two Fires by : Stephen J. Pyne
Download or read book Between Two Fires written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.
Book Synopsis Fire in America by : Stephen J. Pyne
Download or read book Fire in America written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire, will be forthcoming.
Book Synopsis Fire in America by : Stephen J. Pyne
Download or read book Fire in America written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Book Synopsis America Burning: The Report of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control by : National Commission on Fire And Control
Download or read book America Burning: The Report of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control written by National Commission on Fire And Control and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Transmitted with this letter is the final report of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control. The report is based on almost 2 years of work by the Commission. We believe it presents the most significant fire safety problems, and the greatest opportunities for fire loss reduction, in the United States today. The vast majority of the Commission agreed with all fundamental issues. Over $11 billion of our resources are wasted by destructive fires each year. Additionally, 12,000 people are killed and tens of thousands of persons are scarred physically and emotionally by fire. Recommendations are presented in this report which, if implemented, will significantly reduce this great toll. The recommendations emphasize prevention of fire through implementation of local programs. This is in keeping with the very nature of the fire problem which is felt hardest at the community level...
Download or read book Fire in America! written by Paul R. Lyons and published by National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control Publisher :Fema ISBN 13 : Total Pages :198 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis America Burning; Report by : United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
Download or read book America Burning; Report written by United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and published by Fema. This book was released on 1973 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Attacking the Violent Crime of Arson; A Report on America's Fire Investigation Units by :
Download or read book Attacking the Violent Crime of Arson; A Report on America's Fire Investigation Units written by and published by FEMA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of arson trends, investigation unit best practices, current state of the art and needs.
Book Synopsis America's Fire Engine by : Walter M.P. McCall
Download or read book America's Fire Engine written by Walter M.P. McCall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II drew to a close, America's premier fire apparatus builder--the American-LaFrance Foamite Corp. of Elmira, N.Y.--bet the company's future on its radical new cab-ahead-of-engine 700 Series fire engines. In a spectacular gamble to capture the superheated postwar market, all of the company's existing products were discontinued and its customers were essentially told to "take it or leave it." This bold gamble paid off and 700 Series rigs soon filled firehouses across the nation, sweeping aside all competitors and ultimately defining the breakthrough 700 as "America's Fire Engine." This is the first comprehensive history of the game-changing 700. Individual chapters detail not only each of the eight major vehicle types but also the origins, design controversies, manufacturing, and marketing of the 700 and short-lived transitional 800 Series. The book includes a meticulously researched registry of every 700/800 series apparatus delivered, supported by many interpretive tables detailing production, specifications and major fire department fleets.
Book Synopsis The Limits of Power by : Christine Meisner Rosen
Download or read book The Limits of Power written by Christine Meisner Rosen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rebuildings of Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore following great fires.
Book Synopsis America Burning, The Report of The National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, May 4, 1973, * by :
Download or read book America Burning, The Report of The National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, May 4, 1973, * written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Season of Fire by : Doug Gantenbein
Download or read book A Season of Fire written by Doug Gantenbein and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist goes behind-the-scenes to explore the lives of smokejumpers and wilderness firefighters, following the fire season of 2001, during which fires across the West devastated thousands of acres and took the lives of four firefighters.
Author :National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control (U.S.) Publisher :Us Independent Agencies and Commissions ISBN 13 :9780160676833 Total Pages :189 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (768 download)
Book Synopsis America Burning by : National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control (U.S.)
Download or read book America Burning written by National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control (U.S.) and published by Us Independent Agencies and Commissions. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the most significant fire safety problems in the United States in 1973. Also includes recommendations for fire loss reduction.
Book Synopsis America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by : Elizabeth Hinton
Download or read book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s written by Elizabeth Hinton and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” —Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events of 2020 had clear precursors—and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Even in the aftermath of Donald Trump, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions—explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared, the optimistic story of a post–Jim Crow United States no longer holds. Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, plundered local businesses, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities, from York, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, to Stockton, California. The central lesson from these eruptions—that police violence invariably leads to community violence—continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality.
Book Synopsis Responding to Incidents of National Consequence; Recommendations for America's Fire and Emer. Svs. Based on the Events of Sep 11, 2001 and Other Similar Incidents by :
Download or read book Responding to Incidents of National Consequence; Recommendations for America's Fire and Emer. Svs. Based on the Events of Sep 11, 2001 and Other Similar Incidents written by and published by FEMA. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America Burning Revisited by : U.s. Department of Homeland Security
Download or read book America Burning Revisited written by U.s. Department of Homeland Security and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, the presidentially appointed National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control published America Burning, its landmark report on the nation's fire problem. The report presented 90 recommendations for a fire-safe America. For the past 15 years, America Burning has served as a road map, guiding the fire service and the federal fire programs toward the goal of improving fire safety in the United States. The original America Burning report made 90 recommendations in 18 chapters in the following general subject areas: the nation's fire problem; the fire services; fire and the built environment; fire and the rural wildlands environment; fire prevention; and a program for the future. While much of the report and its recommendations remained valid and relevant, it was time to take a second look at America Burning and re-examine the progress made toward the goals and objectives stated in the report. Perhaps more importantly, it was time to make new recommendations that would reflect the changes in our society and environment since 1973, but still move toward a more fire-safe America. As a result, the conference on 'America Burning Revisited” was convened in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., from November 30 to December 2, 1987. “America Burning Revisited” had a threefold purpose. First, conference participants were to reach a consensus about the status of, and trends in, America's fire problem. Second, they were to revisit America Burning by reviewing and evaluating the progress toward the report's 90 recommendations. Finally, the conference participants were to recommend guidelines for local, state and federal efforts to reduce the life and property loss from fire. The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) planned to use the results of this conference as the basis for establishing its program priorities for future activities. This meant that the fire protection leaders participating in “America Burning Revisited” were to have the opportunity to map out the future course of fire safety in this country.
