Have you ever been riding in a tractor on the road and looked out and saw flames coming out of the tractor? Let me just say that that is quite the freaky site. One year at my grandparents U-Pick strawberry field in Helvetia, Oregon, It rained and rained and rained so much that even the four wheel drive pickup trucks got stuck, so we had to bring everybody up the driveway on/in wagons that were either pulled by four wheelers or by tractors so that there was less of a chance of getting people stuck. After the strawberry season had ended a person who was helping my grandparents and actually lived in Eureka and I were, tasked with taking a wagon that had been rented from a pumpkin patch that was about 20 minutes away from the strawberry field and about 1hr by tractor away, to the pumpkin patch with a tractor that had been rented from John Deere for the strawberry season to pull the wagon. After we had traveled about 45 minutes we saw a small, tended brush fire up ahead in the woods by the road, but really didn’t pay much attention to it until I looked forward and thought that I saw an orange flame leap out of the hood of the tractor, but the person I was with, said that he thought that it was just the fire that we had seen before, until just before we were ready to turn into the driveway and …show more content…
all of the sudden flames started leaping out of the hood fire the thing that destroys our stuff fire the thing that helps us live but yet fire was trying to burn the tractor that I stood in. As soon as we saw flames coming out of the tractor we shut the tractor off and jumped out of the tractor and got far away just in case the flame decided it should go for the gas tank and then it would be like a ticking time bomb getting ready to explode and through flaming diesel all over, but just then the lady that lived at the pumpkin patch came with a fire extinguisher so that we could put out the fire. After we had put out the fire we opened up the hood to see if we could find the cause of the fire and you won’t believe what we saw, What was left of a bird's nest was sitting there on top of the exhaust pipe. Now we new why there had been a fire, for the dry sticks that the bird had used to build its nest had heated up to their combustion point.
After the fire had been put out completely we had the farmer who owned the pumpkin patch bring his tractor down, to help get the burned tractor up to the barn so that we could work on the tractor. Once we had gotten the tractor up to the barn we hooked up the air compressor, and blew out the leftovers from the nest and cleaned the eggs off of the exhaust pipe. Once it was all cleaned out we could see that the only real damage was that some of the important wires had been melted, so they would need to be replaced but the tractor still ran
okay. Luckily they did not have to pay for the repairs, for the tractor was a rented tractor and it was not our fault that it caught on fire. Now I guess that what I am trying to get at is that you should probably check the engine on your tractor before you drive it or else you may not get as lucky as us or the tractor in the picture but hopefully now you understand that freaky picture I told you about. Also some other things that you should check before you drive your tractor are the wiring the hydraulic lines and the oil because these could all cause you problems.
Just standing here looking at the ranch brings back lots of memories, both good and bad. The barn where the terrible accident happened no longer exists. It looks like a fire was started on the site and all that remains now are the burnt ashes. The grass has disintegrated and all that is left is the dry almost could be described, as malnourished soil, no water to quench its thirst I’m told that burning the barn was the first thing that Curley did after taking over the ranch from his father. All the other buildings remain intact as they were when I was here.
Fires were a very common obstacle at the time, but nothing was even close to the fire of 1871. On October 8th, firefighters received a call from the neighbor of Catherine O’Leary. Neighbors reported seeing a number of flames coming from the cow barn. Firemen instantly spotted the fire, but miscalculated how big it really was. This event was historically known as the Chicago Fire of 1871 (“People 7 Events”).
The United States Department of agriculture Forest Service investigation report on the thirty mile fire.
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)
To begin with, during the year of 1870 and 1871 Chicago was facing extreme drought. During that time period the city of Chicago was built mostly from wood, making everything extremely flammable. Richard Bales author of “The Great Chicago Fire” states in an online article, “October 8, 1871, just after nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the barn behind the home of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary at 13 DeKoven Street. How the fire started is still unknown today, but an O'Leary cow often gets the credit.” Although we are not certain what and how the fire started, we know that it quickly spread. Legends say that the O’Leary’s cow knocked over one of the fire lamps therefore starting this massive fire. You might be asking yourself, how is it possible for a small fire to spread so quickly? “Hot air rose from the flames and mixed with the cool air above it, creating convection whirls. Witnesses called them "fire devils." A fire devil could pick up a burning piece of wood and send it flying. New fires started where the flaming objects landed. (McHugh)” Firefighters were exhausted from fighting a large fire the night before; and were sent to the wrong neighborhood at first. After finally arrivin...
About a week later a tornado razed a better part of North Houston. It brought rain. It brought hail. It upended cars; it flooded houses. And in its trail it left fallen branches and trees, and removed, in whole, one tiny tomato-onion-potato-and-green-bean garden located behind my garage.
On April 17, 2013, the community of West, Texas, suffered a devastating and heartbreaking event in the evening hours. After a fire broke out inside the West Fertilizer plant, a massive explosion leveled the facility, caused millions of dollars in damage to surrounding buildings, and took the lives of over a dozen people. Sadly, the majority of those killed were volunteer firefighters who had responded to the fire and were unable to retreat to a safe distance before the explosion. Nearly 200 injuries were also reported to have been treated at local hospitals (Wood, 2013). The explosion was said to be caused by the combination of the fire and large stores of ammonium nitrate fertilizer at the plant.
In the summer of 1871, was said to be very dry with little to no rainfall, leaving everything dry and hazardous to catching on fire. During this so-called drought, it wasn’t uncommon for a fire to break out; they were pretty regular throughout
July through October only had a few showers that did not contain much water, and even when it did rain, it flooded. They were going through a very long drought, and they had already had a fire the night before and the blaze destroyed four blocks. The wind wasn’t on their side either. The wind was rushing up from the south east, and the gust of wind spread the fire from building to building in a matter of seconds. The fire alarms were not helpful either, because many of them were very hard to get to. And of course back then, at that time, there were no phones! When William Lee raced to the fire alarm at Gull’s drug store the “ fire was only 15 minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city of Chicago to a fiery
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In May 1972, Lily Gray and her 13 year-old neighbor Richard Grimshaw began their trip in Lily’s new Ford Pinto. Due to a mechanical failure, the car stalled and slowed to a stop in the middle lane of the freeway. The Pinto was then rear-ended by a car which reportedly, had been traveling at about 30 miles per hour. The collision resulted in a rear-end fire which killed Lily Gray and left Richard Grimshaw with 3rd degree burn...
Truck driving is a difficult job which requires great responsibility of transferring the goods from one place to other far place with proper safety. Genuine CDL training is required by every aspiring truck driver to attain essential skills as a professional driver. These training programs are meant not only help the students learn about the possible ways to handle and manage their trucks in most adverse traffic and weather conditions, but also, this training helps them to learn how to prevent any major loss of the goods during the transference.
...r it is arson, an uncontrolled camp fire, or a cigarette butt it doesn’t take much for humans to spark a disaster. Yet there is as well a few set by good old Mother Nature. On top of the effects on the earth as well as humans, there is only one thing we all can do and that is listen to our old pal Smokey the Bear when he says, “only you can prevent wildfire.”
I lived with my father for my entire life, but due to his work I did not spend much time with him. My father worked at a different city; and thus he comes home only a few times a month. My father is a mechanic. He works at a company that is distant from our home. This was due to the company being the only one and the first where cars were being assembled in Ethiopia. Sometimes on the weekends I used to go to his work place. He would give me a trip of the place; the station was filled with vehicles, trucks, and motorcycles. It was separated by sections. In each section there were only one type of vehicle and the assembly process was shown step by step. From a fuse to large engine of the car, components were getting attached.