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Firefighter Suit Chock-Full of Tech
The I-Garment (Integration System for Management of Civil Protection Units) promises to make the dangerous job of firefighting markedly less so. Designed by a consortium of Portuguese firms and...
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Planika Fires Lets You Stoke the Flames Without the Smoke
Nothing screams impeccable taste like having a fireplace in the middle of your coffee table and now, thanks to Planika Fires, you can keep the flames roaring without worrying about smoke or soot. The...
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X Sting Wish Fire Extinguisher Turns Firefighting Into a Shoot Out
When everyday devices become autonomous and start mating in the far future thanks to nanotechnology, items like fire extinguishers will become what designer Adam Scott has envisioned with the X Sting...
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NASA Testing Next Generation Firefighting Gear for Fires... In Spaaace!
In space, no one can hear you scream "Fire." Not that it'd matter, as few people could recognize a microgravity fire anyway. This means space firefighting gear needs to be special. NASA is on it....
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LA Smoldering from Space
The LA fires have actually exploded to double the 152 miles they cover in this photo taken Sunday morning by NASA's Terra satellite. I imagine this is sort of what LA will look like from space...
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If You Lived Here... Your Van Would Be On Fire
Something tells me the Google Street View team should be equipped with emergency response gear and training. What tells me this? This van that's totally on fire, for one thing. UPDATED Yesterday, the...
View ArticleOne Way to Dispose of Your Old iPhone: Melting It With a 65" DIY Death Ray
Hey, I'm not saying this is an environmentally sound way to get rid of old gadgets, or even a safe thing to set up in your backyard if you have children, pets, or a penchant for mischief, but, yes....
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The 7 Best Deep-Fried Turkey Disaster Videos
Today's Thanksgiving, and a whole bunch of people are going to just toss a frozen turkey willy-nilly into a deep fryer, film the exploding fireball that results, and post it on YouTube. (For which we,...
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Search for Missing Remote Ends in House Fire
Click to view A lost remote control is an annoyance. A house fire is a tragedy. A 19-year-old near Cleveland turned the former into the latter when he used a lighter to search under his bed for a...
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How City Hall Nearly Burned Down the Bronx
Firefighting is more than fancy hats and ladder trucks - there's both a science and an art to it. Joe Flood's The Fires shows how New York's Bravest take out a blaze from the top down. Just after...
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6 Tools That Are Saving Arizona from the Wildfires
Now that summer is heating up, certain parts of the world are prone to one heat specific disaster: wildfires. Numerous regions in Arizona, and the Los Alamos Nuclear Plant in New Mexico, are currently...
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The Wildfires Burning Texas Right Now Can Be Seen from Space
Texas is burning right now. More than a thousand homes have already been lost, 5,000 people have been evacuated and more fires are popping up. Some of the fires are so big that you can see them from...
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The Most Intense Firefighter Helmet Camera Videos
Helmet cameras have a tendency to capture inherently cool stuff. You're probably wearing the helmet for a reason, after all. But firefighter helmet cams are especially incredible because they aren't...
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Cheap, Plastic-Filled Furniture Makes It Easier for Fire to Destroy Our Homes
Today, more and more furniture is made using plastic-based materials, which burns drastically faster than the interior decor of yore, sucking all the oxygen out of a room at a faster clip, and making...
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This Magnesium Firestarter Will Impress Fellow Outdoorsmen—And Maybe Save...
If you get lost in the woods, sooner or later you're going to run out of waterproof matches. Right? Or at least that's why I always go hiking with a block of magnesium in my bag. This handy firestarter...
View ArticleLucky Timelapse Catches Montreal In Flames
A timelapse of a city skyline can be stunning in its own right, but every now and then, something crazy will happen out of the blue. It's just that kind of event that photographer Evan Kitaljevich was...
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Firefighters Can Take Smart-Pills That Report Back Important Data About Their...
Firefighters run into flaming buildings for a living, It's not exactly what you might call a safe job. And while they can tell generally how they're doing by noting whether or not they are on fire at...
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A Fire-Starting Pen, For When Your Words Aren't Inflammatory Enough
They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but neither of those implements are really that effective when it comes to starting a campfire. So if survival and copious note-taking are high on your list...
View ArticleWatch a Railroad Bridge Turn into $10 Million Flaming Dominoes
Structure fires are never a good thing, but that doesn't mean they can't be damned impressive. Last Sunday, this railroad trestle in Texas caught fire, and when authorities decided it'd be too...
View ArticleA Boeing 777 Has Crashed In San Francisco [UPDATING]
A Boeing 777 is on fire at San Francisco International Airport. The emergency slides have deployed, though it is not immediately clear what caused the crash and conflagration, nor if there are any...
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