During my interview with Jayke Motz, he explained that he woke up to “crackling noise” and discovered fire on the porch and that it was visible at the top of the door. He explained that he ran up the stairs to alert his boss, Bryan and family. Bryan asked Jayke to run outside and get a hose. Jayke informed me that he used the single french door located on “C” side to exit the home. I inquired if he left the door open and he stated “yes”. This factor is believed to have contributed to the rapid fire growth and was a factor in spreading the fire from the front porch “A” side, to the “C” side very rapidly. The entire home was consumed by fire in the center with the upper floors collapsed into the main floor. The exterior walls were remaining with
One of the deadliest nightclub fires in United States history occurred on May 28, 1977, a busy Memorial Day weekend in the suburbs of Cincinnati. The Beverly Hills Supper Club was a popular nightclub located in Southgate, Campbell County, Kentucky in the greater Cincinnati area. It was located on a hill less than 1000 ft. from the highway on seventeen acres of land just three miles from downtown Cincinnati (Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire D-1). It has since become a case study for its numerous code violations and the behavior of the fire from ignition to building collapse. While there is no one contributing factor to the significant loss of life at this facility, a study of the building’s history, the sequence of the fire’s progression, and an analysis of the fire’s chemistry can provide some valuable lessons to the future firefighter.
When the fire company arrived, everything appeared normal, as there was no smoke coming out of the Iroquois Theater at first. But when they went into the building, they could not open the doors because of the bodies that were stacked against them. The death toll in the upper balconies was tremendous, as the fire escape supposedly leading down to the street a hundred feet below was found to be non-existent, leaving some to jump or fall to their death from the great height. As many as 150 people met their fate in this manner.
MAYCOMB – Yesterday night, an unknown fire, measuring 20 meters in size, emerged from the house of Miss. Maudie Atkinson on Main Street. The fire injured nobody but had burnt the house down.
When I'm in a car riding down the street there is only one radio station that I really enjoy, KXHT 107.1. The music they play is quite specific. They are a hip-hop and R&B station that plays mostly southeastern groups. Hip-hop is quite new to me having really only gotten into it in the early years of high school were as I liked rock since childhood. It was for this reason and a few others that I decided to interview a personality from Hot 107 as they are nicknamed.
There were more than 334,000 people in Chicago at the time (Burgan). Ninety percent of the buildings in Chicago were made out of wood during the 1800’s. Streets and even sidewalks were also made out of wood. There were fifty-six miles of wooden roads and five hundred and sixty one miles of sidewalks. In 1871, there was little to no rain during that summer, therefore, the ground was very dry which made it more vulnerable. Mr. and Mrs. O’Leary were some residents in Chicago at this time; they lived at 137 DeKoven Street where the fire actually started. The O’Leary’s had five children; they also had a barn filled with five cows, one calf, one horse, two tons of hay and two tons of coal which was a huge fire hazard. The barn and everything in it was Mrs. O’Leary’s livelihood but the barn was not insured because they were very poor. Mr. O’Leary worked as a laborer, and Mrs. O’Leary kept her cows in a barn selling their milk to the neighbors (Edmond).
For the purposes of this assignment, I had the privilege of interviewing an incredibly talented person by the name of Cynthia Jeanette Hyatt, who graciously granted me a last-minute interview after an incident with a previous interviewee rendered that interview borderline unusable.This is not to suggest that choosing her for an interview was merely a matter of convenience. While that did indeed play a role in her initial consideration, the opportunity to interview her was truly appreciated and ultimately enjoyable. Due to busy and conflicting schedules, the interview was conducted in the common area of the high school at which the interviewee works and the interviewer attends. There were a couple gaps throughout the interview, during which the conversation was turned to another person or became tangential, but overall the interview was fairly cohesive.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was one of the largest disasters in American history. Practically overnight the great city of Chicago was destroyed. Before the fire there was a large drought causing everything to be dry and flammable, then a fire broke out in the O’Leary’s barn and spread throughout the city. Many attempts were made to put out the fire but there were too many errors and problems in the beginning. After the fire many people were left homeless and had to help build their city again (Murphy, 39)
On June 2, 2017 around six o’clock, I interviewed Dr. Yolanda West about her life. Dr. West is a determined individual. She is the first female to receive a dotctoral degree in her family.
The means of egress is often times the difference between life and death at any fire incident. If people are to stay alive during a fire incident, they must possess an avenue of evacuating that space in as safe a manner as possible. In an online article by Michael O’Brian, he gave the following observation: the means of egress is critical to the safety of occupants in every occupied structure (O'Brian, 2008). Proper function of an egress system is paramount to the safety of occupants trying to exit a structure during an emergency. According to O’Brian, the means of egress is based on several principles: occupants will have choices on how to evacuate; the system will accommodate the number of occupants and provide some separation from the fire; and the path is clear, illuminated and marked (O'Brian, 2008). The means of egress is a “continuous and unobstructed path of vertical and horizontal egress travel from any occupied portion of a building to a public way” (National Fire Academy, 2009). The means of egress has evolved over time due to unfortunate incidents that occurred over the years. Different organizations and associations analyze the data recovered from investigations to determine causes and suggest corrective measures to be instituted in an effort to make structures safer in the future.
Throughout recorded history, fires have been known to cause great loss of life, property, and knowledge. The Great Fire of London was easily one of the worst fires mankind has ever seen causing large scale destruction and terror. Samuel Pepys described the fire as “A most malicious bloody flame, as one entire arch of fire of above a mile long… the churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made.” (Britain Express 1).
Approximately, the fire had grounded the home in thirty minutes (MacGowan). Although many speculate that the fire was blistering enough to incinerate the remains, belongings in the home were still identifiable. (Newton 349). Before the fire started, a passerby saw “unknown persons lobbing ‘balls of fire’ onto the Sodder’s roof” (Newton 349). Consequently, this leads to help support the theory that the Sodder home was burned from the roof down instead of upwards (Newton 349). This theory has been the most supported theory because it is the most
The instructor that I choose to interview was Dr. Jennifer Donahue. She was my instructor last semester for my African Studies course. Dr. Jennifer Donahue is an Assistant Professor with a Ph.D. in Literature from Florida State University. Donahue research and work focusses in present Caribbean literature with an emphasis on the connection between history, suffering, and sexual political beliefs. For her exposition, she expanded her research into a volume script designated Trauma, Shame and Silence in Caribbean Women’s Writing. The writing in it disputes that body and sexual politics behave as systems of micro trauma that stimulate circumstances fluctuate from shame to psychosis. Donahue investigation and educational interests comprise of Caribbean
All fire departments should have a set of standard operating procedures (SOP’s) that serve as a frame of reference for firefighters when determining how best to handle a fire situation. Venting for life is a situation that is routinely part of those SOP’s. The Jefferson Parish Louisiana Fire Departments SOP’s relating to venting for life states: “Firefighters may create openings, or break windows, to gain access from an exterior position to carry out a primary search in a high-risk area of the structure.” These openings are most often windows that can be in an area adjacent to the fire or in another area of the fire building that is deemed most effective. This method of ventilation is called V-E-S (vent, enter, search) and while it is a common practice among fire departments it is a strategy that is often filled with hazards but may produce great rewa...
Have you ever seen a burning building? The fire isn’t caught quickly enough, and the flames have already been at work for too long. They envelop the inside, but leave the frame still standing, barren as the wind itself. Without its fleshy foundations, the building is vulnerable and each howling ...
When the motion of combustion products and fresh air can be caused by a fire located in the structure. As the gas in each room is assumed to be divided into two similar layers, and the layer next to the ceiling will contain hot combustion products and one next to the floor which contains fresh air. All buildings consist of a series of compartments, and they are all connected by open doorways. The windows and doors seemed to be open on the alpha side. There was a smoke ejector at the front door during this fire which could have influenced the fire. If you have the presence of wind, and by the way, the fire was coming out of the front of the building it was possibly influenced by air movement within the building. (Gann & Friedman, 2015,