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Wildfire Preparedness: the Five Aspects of Readiness

A classic 70’s tune gives us the lyrics, “She ran calling ‘Wildfire’…..†Then a love song, but today, possibly the beginnings of an action / adventure / horror movie. With rainfall low, and temperatures and winds high, the wildfires we’re currently battling across the country are heavily taxing our first responder assets. More fires will surely follow if these conditions continue.

First responder assets aside, these fires have affected local civilians. Thousands have evacuated, and many find nothing but charred vacant lots when they return. What are some innovative ways civilians can protect themselves, their property, and actually help firefighters in the process?

At the household level, most of us have smoke detectors. That’s good, because in a house fire, as in a wildfire, where there’s smoke, there’s F.L.A.M.E.:

Family – Something as massive as a wildfire will affect your whole family. Prepare them now.

Landscaping – Simple and subtle steps can make your property much more fire resistant.

Awareness – In an emergency, time is crucial. Stay aware of the threat and get the warnings early.

Moisture – Some say you fight fire with fire. We say you fight fire with water.

Evacuation – Even after taking all the other steps, a wildfire is something best avoided.

Family

A prepared and involved family is far more able to handle any type of disaster than those who wait for last-minute instruction. Therefore, one of the best things you can do for your family is to prepare them for one of the most common and least forgiving enemies; fire.

1. Take the family on a fire-safety tour through the house. Locate dangers such as overloaded electrical outlets and safety items such as extinguishers and escape routes.

2. In emergencies, redundancy is our friend. You should have more than one smoke detector, fire extinguisher, and escape route from rooms or the house. Hint: If you’re a heavy sleeper, buy a “baby monitor.†Put the transmitter near the farthest smoke detector and the receiver in your bedroom.

3. Make sure everyone in the family knows how to use a fire extinguisher, and how to call 911.

4. Have regular fire drills. Let each family member have a turn being the one who discovers the fire and who has to warn others. On at least every other drill, have everyone evacuate blind-folded on their hands and knees (while exercising due safety) to mimic the realistic conditions of a fire evacuation.

5. Revisit every family emergency plan with the whole family during wildfire season and certainly if one is in your area and possibly heading your way.

Landscaping

Though tragedies usually take the lead in newscasts, stories still abound of how some homeowners managed to protect their properties from wildfire by simple and subtle changes with their landscaping and home. Take these steps now, since in a fire, time is of the essence.

1. Your main landscaping consideration is to remove any dead, dry vegetation, whether on the ground or in your trees, that could transfer fire to your house. Since this aspect of wildfire preparedness has been adequately covered by others, here are a few good outside sources:

 General wildfire landscaping tips: http://www.firewise.org/resources/files/wildfr2.pdf .

 Florida wildfire landscaping pointers: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FR/FR07600.pdf .

 More on landscaping during wildfire season: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FR/FR04700.pdf.

 Fire-resistant plants: http://web1.msue.msu.edu/emergency/pubs/wildfire_resistant.pdf.

2. Be ready to seal your house before evacuating. Create covers for any opening on your home such as attic vents (roof turbines can be covered with metal trash cans), crawlspace openings, etc. Gather your material (such as plywood) and cut, paint, and label (where it goes) each cover now, keeping them stored on your property for immediate use. Put a couple of hooks over each opening you might cover and drill corresponding holes in the plywood covers. The hooks will hold the cover in place while you drill in the screws. This allows one person to do the job and frees up others to perform other necessary tasks. Hint: Also make covers for your windows (including garage door windows) just as if you lived in a hurricane zone.

3. Create a “fire tool box†and include everything needed to prep your house in advance of a wildfire. Store extra garden hoses, water sprinklers, “Y†connectors for extra hoses, wrenches to turn off your gas, rolls of heavy-duty aluminum foil (to cover the openings you didn’t make covers for), machetes and gloves for last minute brush clearing, etc. Store extra tools because you won’t have time to replace tools that might have been broken or lost.

4. Make sure first responders can see your home’s address. Put your house number on your mailbox, near your front door, and painted on the curb by your driveway.

Awareness

A common theme in all our publications and presentations is the fact that in an emergency, our most crucial asset is time (see our other articles at www.disasterprep101.com). The two key elements of time in a wildfire are one, to have as much done in advance as possible, and two, get as early a warning as possible.

1. Don’t wait for a wildfire to approach to start your landscaping. Perform that now and keep your property as fire-retardant as you can.

2. Don’t wait for the smell of smoke to warn you a fire is on its way. If fire conditions are right, monitor news channels and listen for community warnings.

3. Learn to recognize your community warnings. Does your community have a reverse 911 system? Sirens? Will the local TV or radio station broadcast the alert? If your community doesn’t have any of these systems, why not start them in your neighborhood? At the very least, have a phone tree.

4. Buy an NOAA Weather Alert Radio since they’re being incorporated into the overall Emergency Alert System. You should also know who your local Ham Radio operators are. See http://www.arrl.org.

Moisture

Water is the king of firefighting and fire suppression substances. The best protection for your property lies in your ability to keep a “dome†of moisture in one form or another all over and around your home.

1. One publication under “landscaping†above lists beneficial plants that hold their moisture well. Regardless of the types of plant life in your yard, keep them well hydrated (while following watering ordinances).

2. When setting up your sprinklers, give your yard adequate spray coverage, especially over areas that might worsen the fire such as an above-ground propane tank or wooden deck attached to your house. The best sprinkler for surface areas is the professional directional type rather than the small garden variety that only sprays a weak pattern over a small area. Your garden store rep can help.

3. Put sprinklers on your roof, being sure to anchor them in place since the high winds generated in some wildfire wind storms can blow them off the roof.

4. If you have an in-ground sprinkler system, great! It will give you even water coverage over the grounds and provide a good foundation for the comprehensive water system you’ll need. To your in-ground system add separate “fire†lines that feed water to sprinklers that either spray directly against your house, or outward from your yard to cover vegetation surrounding your property. Too, have a sprinkler line permanently installed on your roof to save you the time of manually putting sprinklers up there. Also, install an additional input valve to allow water from a secondary source like a water pump drawing from your swimming pool.

5. If you have a pool, pond, well, or creek, you have a reservoir that should be put to good use so you don’t draw off the municipal water firefighters need to prevent fire from nearing your property in the first place. It’s a simple matter to keep a gas-powered generator (which self-reliant families should have) and a water pump (such as a pressure-washer), and use the two to draw water from your pool and feed it to your sprinklers. If you have a well with an electric pump, hook your generator to the pump to keep it running should local power fail. Exercise caution when setting up your generator so it doesn’t start its own fire.

6. A final consideration with sprinklers is position. Cover the outer perimeter of your yard, spray against the outer walls and roof of your house, and cover the crowns of your trees if possible. Also, consider outward-pointing sprinklers anchored to an elevated position such as an upper floor deck or porch, or your roof.

Evacuation

We strongly recommend evacuation, even if you’ve taken all the above steps and feel they might work. It’s best that you be pre-prepped and ready to leave at a moment’s notice since time is our most valuable asset. The more ready you are in advance, the more time you have.

1. All your landscaping steps should be taken care of now and maintained, especially during fire season.

2. In wildfire-prone areas, and especially during wildfire season, keep your bugout kits and vehicle ready at all times (with fuel tanks topped off). Hint: With your documents, keep the non-emergency numbers for local authorities so you can call to find out when it’s safe to return.

3. Perform last-minute landscaping ONLY if time allows, since you’ll want extra time to perform the household shutdown steps. However, don’t do anything until you’ve loaded your car with provisions and have nothing left to load but people and pets (in their carriers and/or ready to go).

4. Inside the house do the following:

 Move all flammables (such as furniture and curtains) away from windows making sure each is closed and latched. Lower and close any metallic blinds.

 Leave your fireplace damper open, and close the fireplace protective cover.

 Close all interior doors but don’t lock them.

 Turn off your heat/AC system, and cover any window air-conditioners or floor heater vents with aluminum foil and duct tape inside and out.

 Turn off all gas coming into the house whether from underground line or above-ground tank.

 Turn on inside and outside lights so your property is visible in heavy smoke. Firefighters may need to use it as a beacon.

5. To protect the valuables you don’t have room for in your evacuation vehicle, consider these:

 For waterproof valuables, put them in a bathtub, storage tub, or trashcan you’ve filled with water. (Notice we didn’t recommend your pool, since you should be using it to feed your sprinklers.)

 Large valuables such as antique furniture, etc. should be carried into the center of the house on the lowest floor (the same place you’d go in a tornado).

 Major appliances, such as your oven, fridge, freezer, dishwasher, clothes washer, and dryer, tend not to be consumed by flame or crushed by debris and thereby offer a protected storage location for other valuables. Hint: Disposable diapers are surprisingly flame resistant, and might be useful as wraps for some items stored in an appliance.

6. Lock up the house, leave a note on the door telling authorities you’ve evacuated, check with neighbors to make sure they’re on their way to safety, hop in your vehicle, and leave. Hint: If the area is getting smoky, listen to your radio for road closure information, turn your headlights on low, and set your climate controls to “re-circulate†so as not to draw in smoke from outside the vehicle.

Naturally, this is an article that could go for a few dozen more pages since it’s such an important topic and certainly one where we could offer extensive detail. For now, this will have to do. Will the above information make you fireproof and prevent any damage to your property? No. But it’s very likely to help, especially if you take these steps now. Taking these measures also helps firefighters since any time a wildfire is delayed or a home protected, you take one more item off the shoulders of first responders. Prep now, stay safe, and remember that preparedness is not only a social responsibility; it’s your only true protection.

About the Author

Paul Purcell is a security analyst and preparedness consultant with InfoQuest in Atlanta, GA, and he’s also the author of “Disaster Prep 101.†For additional preparedness-related articles visit http://www.disasterprep101.com. Permission granted to reprint this article provided all portions remain intact. © 2007 Paul Purcell.

In the refrigerator, the amount of moisture that is supposed to store lettuce?

1 / 4 of the temperature of your refrigerator

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If you buy a bottom-freezer refrigerator or a traditional model? Your choice of price and prefer the look and layout of your kitchen. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages with respect to the functionality in this short article.

Refrigerators are often the most critical part of most kitchens. Even if you do not cook, you need to store drinks, takeaways, and maybe some snacks and frozen entrees. You must make your choice carefully to the refrigerator you buy is right for you. The three most common types of refrigerators and freezers are Refrigerator above, freezer bottom, and side to side.

The time to honor refrigerator with freezer on top would be the best option for someone who does not cook and expects to store drinks, takeaway and frozen foods. The door style refrigerator has shelves to help organize gallon milk containers and products. It also lets you store your frozen foods to be at a height easily accessible. The vegetable drawers are regulated to control humidity, making them ideal for keeping fruit and vegetables.

Refrigerators and freezers background have become the preference for those who often cook with fresh foods and not using your fridge freezer as often. This means that fruits and vegetables height are best when in a traditional design, usually around and a little more difficult to achieve.

The freezer refrigerator freezer bottom drawers making it less cumbersome to remove these elements. Is not it strange that we adapt to our machines, instead of developing models adapt to the way we live?

Yet another style of refrigerator to consider is the style side by side. It has a refrigerator on one side and Refrigerator on the other. Thus, almost all positions, whether unprocessed or cooked, are easily accessible, because it's the same height. The side by side fridge freezer can be less energy efficient, but the Energy Star models exist.

See link at the end of this section to review a wide range of refrigerators and freezers background. Most models are available white, off white and black.

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There is a new way to keep the house cool when the weather warms. We know that without air conditioning ducts. The most common incentive to save in one of these systems is because of its efficiency. The explanation is simple. The standard type of equipment using the air conditioning ducts is to redistribute the cold air at lower levels, then powering back up throughout the residence. A post system filtration unit in height, usually only a few inches below the ceiling. Thus that fresh air can travel down through residence without forced by a fan. With a gravity provides much of the effort to secure significant savings account in their energy costs.

Often, the filtration systems are an air conditioner inside and out. The compressor is placed beside an outer wall from home. Two pipes run in the residence through a wall, the supply of refrigerant to the indoor units. With this type of air conditioning system, you can enjoy the benefits of more than one internal drive. This means that you have the opportunity to cool only certain areas of your home if necessary. For example, you can disable housing unit all day, and your life will always pleasant air conditioning during the day. This simple step alone could cut your energy costs in half does not even feel the difference.

As cold air is released from near the ceiling, the floor will not be as cold as they can get air central. Furthermore, the region can cool quickly. Because the temperature is distributed air leakage of air conditioning equipment is usually much more the central cold.

You can also get some practice attached to the filter unit air conditioners. Some types of work as an air filter, and air moisture can be extracted without changing the temperature. Many mobile shutters automatically to distribute air in the living space as a whole. Some units even can provide heat in cold weather.

However, without also leads has some attacks against them. Usually there are up to 30 percent more than other forms of temperature control. Moreover, they pretty much have to be installed by a professional. To some extent, is much more difficult than the development of a conditioner central air and much more complicated than installing a window air conditioner.

After weighing the pros and cons of air conditioning systems without ducts, may determine that these systems operate well for you. Many people find it more effective, easier to use and very reliable. And finally, is sure to recover the additional cost of such equipment through lower energy bills.

Ductless air conditioning is becoming more and more popular as people discover its many advantages. Find out more about how to keep your cool at the Residential Air Conditioning site.

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Choosing a Dust Collector for Air Cleaning

Oleg Systems Co. engineers industrial dust collectors and dust collection systems. Dust collecting equipment is available in numerous designs utilizing a number of principles and featuring wide variation in effectiveness, initial cost, operating and maintenance expense, space, arrangements and material of construction.

Factors influencing dust collection equipment selection include:

* Concentration and particle size of contaminant;
* Degree of collection required;
* Characteristics of air or gas stream;
* Characteristics of contaminant;
* Methods of disposal.

Depenging on above factors, the following Oleg Systems dust collector types can be utilized:

ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPIRATORS

  The principle of collection relies on the ability to impart a negative charge to particles in the gas stream causing them to move and adhere to the grounded or positively charged collector plates. Most precipitators are made for horizontal air flow with velocities 100 to 600 fpm.

- Fabric Collectors

  Fabric arresters are high efficiency, medium cost collectros. Dust collection is obtained by building up a mat of the material on the dirty side of the media. This mat provides the actual filtering or straining bed. By means of this bed a high degree of removal is obtained even on submicron size particles.

- Intermittent-Duty Fabric Collectors

  These types may use either envelope or stocking arrangement of the fabric but will generally employ shaking or vibrating as a means of reconditioning. Periodically Uusually at 4 to 6 hour intervals0 the air flow must be stopped to effect reconditioning – thus the classification “intermittent”.

- Multiple-Section, Continuous-Duty, Automatic Fabric Collectors

  The disadvanteges of stopping the air flow to permit vibration and variations in the airflow can be overcomed by using of sectional arresters allowing continuous operation of the exhaust system as automatic dampers periodically take one section out of service for reconditioning the fabric while the remaining sections take the entire gas volume.

- Reverse-Jet Fabric Collectors

  The reverse-jet type differs from the conventional arrsters in its use of high pressure air to clean the fabric. One type uses high pressure air (30″ – 40″ WG) froma travelling “blow ring” to dislodge the collected cake from inside the fabric tube. Another type uses high pressure compressed air (100 PSI) to break the dust cake from the exterior of the fabric tube or envelope by the intermittent application of reverse-jet compressed air.

- Reverse-Flow Collapse, Continuous-Duty Collectors

  Reverse-flow collapse cleaning is generally used with glass media which is fragile and requires a gentle cleaning technique. Reversing the glass flow provides a gentle collapse of the fabric usually in a “four point star” braking the dust cake which falls by gravity into the hopper.

WET COLLECTORS

  Wet collectors are available in many different designs. They have the ability to handle high temperature and moisture-laden gases. The collection of dust in wetted form eliminates a secondary dust problem in disposal of collected material. Also, some dust represent explosion or fire hazard when dry and wet collectors eliminate or at least reduce the hazzard.

- Chamber or Spray Tower

  Consists of a round or rectangular chamber into which water is introduced via spray nozzles. There are many variations in design but the principal mechanism is impaction of dust particles on the liquid droplets created by nozzles. These droplets are separated from the air stream by centrifugal force or impingement on water eliminators.

- Packed Towers

  Collectors in this group are essentially contact beds through which gases and liquid pass either concurrently, counter=concurrently or in cross-flow and are used primarily for applications involving gas, vapor and mist removal.

- Wet Centrifugal Collectors

  Wet centrifugal dust collectros utilize centrifugal force to acceslerate the dust particle and impigne it upon a wetted collector surface. These collectors are more efficient than the chamber type. Some are availbale with different number of impingement sections.

- Wet Dynamic Precipitators

  This type uses water sprays within a fan housing and obtains precipitation of the dust particles on the wetted surface of an impeller with special fan blade shape. No internal pressure drop is involved although mechanical efficiency is somewhat lower than the mechanical efficiency of standard exhaust fans.

- Orifice Type Collectors

  In this group of wet collectors designs, the air flow through the collector is brought in contact with a sheet of water in a restricted passage. Water flow may be induced by the velocity of the air stream or maintained by pumps and weirs.

- Venturi Scrubbers

  This collector uses a venturi-shaped construction to establish throat velocities considerably higher than those experienced with the orifice type. The collection mechanism of the venturi is impaction. As with wet collectors in general, the collection efficiency of the venturi increases with higher pressure drops. Different pressure drops are achieved by designing for selected gas velocities in the throat. The venturi iteself is a gas conditioner causing intimate contact between particles in the gas and the multiple jet streams of scrubbing water.

DRY COLLECTORS

- Cyclone Dust Collectros

  Cyclone Collectors are frequently applied for the removal of coarse dusts from an air stream, as a pre-cleaner to more efficient dry or wet dust collectors and / or as a separator in product conveying systems using an air stream to transport material. Principle advantages are low cost, low maintenance and low pressure drop (in order 0.75″ to 1.5″ WG), but this type dust collector can not be used for collection of fine particles.
 
- High Efficiency Centrifugal Collectors

  Have been developed whereby higher centrifugal forces are exerted on dust particles in a gas stream. Improvement in dust separation efficiency has been obtained by 1) increasing velocities through a cyclone shape dust collector, 2) utilizing a skimmer or other design feature, 3) using a number of small diameter cyclones in parallel and 4) placing units in series in some unusual applications.

- Dry Type Dynamic Precipitators

  In this collector, dust is precipitated by centrifugal force on to specially shaped blades on an exhauster wheel and then conveyed through a dust circuit in the fan casing to the dust storage hopper.

- Louver Type Dust Collectors

  Centrifugal forces can be applied to a particle by a rapid change in direction of air flow by series of plates set at an angle to the air stream. Coarse particles traverse the air stream and will project back to the dirty air side by the forces that can be produced from such an impact.

- Settling Chambers

  Dust is settled out in a large chamber when conveying velocities are reduced to the point where the particles are no longer conveyed. Extreme space requirements and the presence of edde currents to nullify the effective velocity mean that settling chamber type of dust collectors can be used only for removal of extremely coarse particles.

- Potable Unit Collectors

  To fill the need for dust collection from isolated, portable or frequently relocated dust producing operations, a number of unit collector designs are availbale having capacities in the range of 200 to 1,000 CFM. Featuring small space and designed to recirculate the air, collectors of this type have been used extensively, especially in the metal working industry.

For additional information please refer to http://www.olegsystems.com/dustcollector/Index.html.

Oleg Chetchel
Canadian Industrial Process Engineer
Oleg Systems Co.
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What happens if I use a hole through a wall to fit an air conditioner that has been designed for a window?

I figure the lateral and top louvers will be obstructed by the walls of hole. However, bearing in mind that the hole is bigger than the AC case, there will be additional space around it and thus the louvers will be neither fully obstructed, nor fully outside. Will this impede the functioning of the AC to the point that it would damage it?

It may be possible to find a sleeve that would replace the outer covering on the existing AC unit. That is usually the only difference between a window unit and a wall unit. The sleeve would have the vent louvers farther back and would have better mounting to the wall. A support cross member would be recommended. You might get lucky and find one in a junkyard or from an AC company that has removed one from another location. A sheet metal shop should be able to make you one for a slightly high cost.
The problem with the vents not being either fully in or out would be more of an insulation concern. If the hot air your are trying to expel through the vents is exhausted into the walls or room your are trying to cool it would defeat the purpose.

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Rachael Ray, kaufte ich mir einen Stock Edelstahl-Kochgeschirr ungebundene (die orange Griffe) und machte einige Bratkartoffeln mit ihnen. Dann erkannte ich, dass der Container braun war, während Er versuchte sich zu waschen, und ich kann nicht heraus. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, wenn brennendes Öl oder nicht, weil jemand sagte mir, dass es in der Tat Stock, der gebrannt hat und jetzt mein Kochgeschirr ist ruiniert. Wahr oder nicht? Oh, und ich bin mir bewusst, Rachael Ray Kochgeschirr ist gar nicht so mit seinem großen 18 / 0 Bewertung, war aber nicht wirklich daran interessiert, geben viel Geld für den guten Dingen ein Neuling … Nun, ich fand das orange Nizza behandelt.

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