Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.
This online course provides knowledge of basic math concepts and tools necessary for making math calculations in the field. Topics include calculating tank volumes and flow rates, determining pump pressure and friction loss, understanding maps and location coordinates, and estimating slope. Additionally, the course presents information on calculating flame length, flame height, midflame windspeed, and other variables related to wildland firefighting efforts. This course is designed for wildland firefighters.
so, im trying to start a pen+paper fire emblem campaign with my friends, but in order to do this, i need all the math for it, like how the program generates the stats for enemy characters, what classes have what chance of leveling up what skills, and how the stats affect each class, like their hit, dodge, and critical rates. I tried googling it, but all i got was a bunch of people complaining about skills not proccing in awakening.
I have put together a map to be used with Collector for ArcGIS for our city's Fire Department to conduct fire hydrant inspections. They gather 3 readings in the field (Static Pressure, Residual Pressure and Pitot Pressure) which they then add into a third-party software to determine Rated Flow at 20psi. Based on Rated Flow the hydrant is assigned a color: Red 0-499, Yellow 500-999, etc..
With an online Bachelor of Science in Fire Science degree from Anna Maria College, aspiring and seasoned firefighters learn about fire dynamics, data collection, statistical analysis, British Thermal Units, and budgeting.
Other important tactical decisions must be made based on the calculations of the fire scene. For example, a hydrant has a certain diameter, which means it can dispense a certain number of gallons of water in a minute. Meanwhile, hydrants supply attack lines (the water hoses firefighters use), which shoot up to 300 gallons of water in a minute. Firefighters need to use mental math when choosing how to attack a fire safely and avoid damaging the integrity of a building. Our fire science curriculum also trains firefighters to use a method called the Fire Flow Formula to determine how much water they will require to suppress a fire.
The study of fires is also an important part of improving the safety of the profession, and the safety of the general public. An online fire science degree helps teach the nuances of data collection and statistical analysis. For example, the U.S. Fire Administration tracks the number of structure fires and the estimated dollar loss.2 Fire deaths are also monitored to identify trends and reduce the fire death rate. Math is a central component to ensure accurate calculations and help officials advocate for resources based on trends.
Becoming an effective fire service leader means understanding fiscal policies, economic indicators, and budgeting best practices. An online degree from Anna Maria College helps prepare you to see a holistic picture of the profession so that you can not only run a fire department tactically, but keep it operating in a fiscally sound manner.
Understanding the budget transmittal process, as well as the concept of elasticity, whereby funding levels grow relative to the growth of income, inflation, and need, is another core competency that will set you apart in the firehouse.
Wildfire is a global reality, and with the onset of climate change, the number of yearly wildfires is increasing. The impacts of wildfires range from the immediate and tangible to the delayed and less obvious. The potential for loss of life, property and natural areas is one of the first threats that wildfires pose. From a financial standpoint, fires can lead to a downturn in local economies due to loss of tourism and business, high costs related to infrastructure restoration, and impacts to federal and state budgets.
Measuring the effects of wildfires takes many forms, several of which use remote-sensing technologies. Remote sensing, observing and measuring an object without coming into contact with it, is performed by instruments on board NASA aircraft and satellites. These instruments measure the radiation being emitted by or reflected off of an object, whether it's radio waves, visible-light waves or energy from another part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared imagery is particularly useful in studying wildfires during the fire and in the aftermath.
This problem-set references a few recent California fires including the 2014 King Fire, a fire NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the US Forest Service have collaboratively studied in depth. The King Fire burned more than 100,000 acres in Placer County, California, in September 2014. It was a uniquely severe fire that produced a great deal of smoke threatening global air quality. Unprecedented fire data contributing to the advancement of science was acquired by a variety of sensors including the AVIRIS instrument flying aboard NASA's ER-2 aircraft high above the King Fire; the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flown on two satellites, Aqua and Terra; and the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard Landsat 8.
The scorched area left after a fire is called a burn scar. A lot can be learned from burn scars. The most obvious is the amount of territory that was touched by the fire. Less obvious but more important to fire scientists is the severity of the fire. Wildfires are classified as burning at different levels of severity: low, medium and high. Severity is a function of intensity, or how hot the fire was, and its spread rate, or the linear (kilometers per hour) speed at which it travels. Fire severity describes how fire intensity affects an ecosystem. A high-severity fire is going to cause some irreparable damage to plant life, while a low-severity fire will be recoverable for many large trees. Severity is measured by the damage left after the fire, but can be estimated during a fire event by calculating spread rate and measuring flame height which indicates intensity. For a more thorough discussion of fire severity as it relates to fire intensity, read this paper.
Marshall runs the fire prediction team at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (known as Cal Fire), headquartered in Sacramento, which gives him an increasingly difficult job: anticipating the behavior of wildfires that become less predictable every year.
At that particular moment in California last September, several unprecedented fires were burning simultaneously. Together, they would double the record-setting acreage of the 2018 wildfire season in less than a month. But just as concerning to Marshall as their size was that the biggest fires often behaved in unexpected ways, making it harder to forecast their movements.
To face this new era, Marshall had a new tool at his disposal: Wildfire Analyst, a real-time fire prediction and modeling program that Cal Fire first licensed from a California-based firm called TechnoSylva in 2019.
The work of predicting how fires spread had long been a matter of hand-drawn ellipses and models so slow analysts set them before bed and hoped they were done in the morning. Wildfire Analyst, on the other hand, funnels data from dozens of distinct feeds: weather forecasts, satellite images, and measures of moisture in a given area. Then it projects all that on an elegant graphic overlay of fires burning across California.
Other huge, destructive fires appear to ricochet off the weather, or each other, in chaotic ways. Fires usually quiet down at night, but in 2020, two of the biggest runs in California broke out at night. Since heat rises, fires usually burn uphill, but in the Bear Fire, two enormous flame heads raced 22 miles downhill, a line of tornadic plumes spinning between them.
In large measure, his approach lies in returning to old land management techniques. Rural people in his region once controlled destructive fires by starting or allowing frequent, low-intensity fires, and using livestock to eat down brush in the interim. They planted stands of fire-resistant hardwood species that stood like sentinels, blocking waves of flame.
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Please be aware of the relevant information within the health and safety induction notes. In particular note the fire service and university security services will not attend a fire alarm during weekday office hours. Should the alarm go off at such a time they must be explicitly called before they will attend (using a call point break glass unit is a human action and thus counts as calling for assistance unlike smoke and heat detectors etc).
The running person symbols will direct you to the nearest fire safe stair core (cores 1 & 2 in the north wing and cores 3 & 5 in the south wing), through the core to the ground floor and out the fire safe corridor/link to the fire exit. In general you should not be evacuating via the atrium stairs or main mezzanine stairs as those routes could expose you to higher risks from smoke and fire. The 3 lecture theatres have additional fire exits at the front of the room where you should again follow the running person symbols which will take you through the basement area and into the fire safe core stair cases, up to ground level and out the fire safe corridors/links to the fire exits.
Some fire exit routes may require the use of a green break glass button to release a locked door. This will trigger the intruder alarm but is the correct action if the fire/evacuation alarm is sounding.
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