Worried about Colorado's drought and the approaching fire season, Harold Petersen spent weeks this spring clearing brush, trimming trees and raking pine straw away from their home to create a fire barrier.
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A plant spokesman said the utility recently added additional layers of the fire barrier and reconfigured critical safety systems to ensure that operators can shut down the plant if a fire breaks out.
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For enhanced fire safety, fireproof and smokeproof materials were selected for the interior, which was configured with fire barriers, and the trains were equipped with fire and smoke detectors and a battery supplied emergency ventilation system.
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The congressional Office of Compliance, which reports on health and safety violations, cited a lack of fire barriers, inadequate exit signs and exit capacity, deficient emergency lighting, limited sprinkler coverage and dangerous storage of flammable and toxic materials.
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The congressional Office of Compliance on Thursday cited a lack of fire barriers, inadequate exit signs and exit capacity, deficient emergency lighting, limited sprinkler coverage and dangerous storage of flammable and toxic materials in the Capitol and surrounding office buildings.
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"All of our apparent vulnerabilities _ inadequate building exit capacity, inaudible alarms, missing fire barriers _ loom much larger now as the prospect of an emergency has become more imminent, " said the report from the general counsel of the compliance office.
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During the past decade, and especially during the past five years with money from the National Fire Plan to reduce hazardous brush and trees, Youtz has constructed quite the fire barrier to the immediate south of Pinetop-Lakeside at the boundary of the Fort Apache Reservation.
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Despite the effort to establish fire barrier zones around Edo, there were also cases where homes were built inside the " hiyokechi ", and stores along the " hirokMji ", which significantly reduced their efficacy, sometimes to the point where there was an even higher fire risk than before.
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It is useful to have clarity in construction communications, to differentiate between the " opening ", whether sealed or not, and the penetrants, which are optional components of a penetration, as sometimes openings ( penetrations of the fire barrier ) are created for future use, especially in electrical service rooms.
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One predicted problem with large green roofs is that fire may be able to spread rapidly across areas of dry grasses and plants when they are dried, for instance, in summer by hot weather : Various countries are stipulating fire barrier areas made of, for example, wide strips of ( partly decorative ) gravel.
