Firefighters To Extinguish Blazes With 'Harry Potter' Wand
MyFox Los Angeles
(NewsCore) - BOSTON -- Scientists have invented a way of controlling fires using a wand that puts out flames by zapping them with electricity, a physicist said Sunday. The Harry Potter-style device could enable firefighters to quell flames without ...
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Future Firefighters Could Fight Fire With Blasts of Flame-Bending Electricity
Popular Science
But fundamentally, we're still fighting fires the old fashioned way: point hose/bucket/pressurized container and drench. But a team of Harvard researchers envisions a day when firefighters will snuff out flames not with a physical suppressant but with ...
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A fire truck that suppresses fires without water
By Bill
A new design for a fire truck for suppressing wildland fires, using sand.
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Boat like nothing we've seen
Quad City Times
"We've had fires during floods, and we had no way of getting water to property on the river. "It's just a matter of time before something like that happens again. There's an opportunity for disaster." The fire department currently uses flat-bottom john ...
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Top 10 Actors Who Died in Fires
By JFrater
The 84-year-old Patrick, who played Vaughn Leland in the hit soap Dallas, was found dead by firefighters, with the body of his dog Josh on the floor next to him. It took more than 50 firefighters 30 minutes to put out the fire, ...
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