fire burned out ? continued?
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maybe your better off marry a sex offender like this guy\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006052918413\n(copy and paste link)\nis there any female that will marry a reformed sex offender?
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Fires cause most of the destruction after the Earthquake. So surviving buildings would probably suffer the most in the hours after the Earthquake.
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I agree 100% with you on this one. As a matter of fact, just the other night, the electricity went off. I woke up sweating because my A/C went off, went to get the phone in total darkness and remembered that IT NEEDS ELECTRICITY TO WORK, so I couldn't call the electric people, I would just have to wait it out. Looked around for a candle, which I don't buy for necessity and more just looks and the darn thing was burned down because I had used it the other day to make the house smell good...lol!\n\nStarted worrying about an hour later because I had to wake up from work and the alarm was not on (no electricity, remember) so I had to stay awake until it came back on, in the heat, with NO light and no phone!\n\nFor 2 hours I was lost and I didn't like it. But do you think I will be prepared for it next time, probably not :)\n\nGood Question!
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Exhaled air is only about 3% carbon dioxide and is still around 18% oxgyen.  This is not the reason.  If it were, blowing air with a fan or high wind would not blow it out.\nIt blows it out because you are separating the heat from the fuel source.  The bigger the fire, the harder you need to blow.  If they are separated and the fuel source is not hot enough to re-ignite, it blows out.
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You can grow a tree and fireproof it. Or find something with a pretty high combustion point and internalize the tree with. PERHAPS the tree won't burn. =)
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In conclusion we found the water to bead up like a dome until the increase in mass/weight overcame the Penny's ability to hold the water. Then the water ran onto the table across the floor. There was a bare electrical wire which the water shorted out and it caught fire, burning the building down. After the Fire Department left, we decide never to try this stupid experiment again!\nYou may want to reword it some, this this best I could do from what you wrote.
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how  long  is a piece  of  string  ...depends on  were you are  what country   your in   etc etc etc    ...best  Idea  is  to speak  to  your local  fire   prevention  office  ...
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Spontaneous combustion?
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yes that is a violation and should be reported to the city. Check in your yellow pages for the government agencies that handle that. If there is no fire escape, there should be an extra way out.
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The explanations of fire in most standard reference works, not to put too fine a point on it, suck. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, for example, takes the following ineffectual stab: "rapid burning of combustible material with the evolution of heat and usually accompanied by flame." No wonder people have lost faith in science. Time to let a professional show how it's done. We'll start by reviewing the defects of the EB definition.\n\n(1) Rapid burning. OK, fire burns rapidly. Slow combustion, also known as oxidation, includes such nonfiery processes as rusting and digestion. However, to say that fire involves burning is to embark on a circular definition: What is fire? When something burns. What is burning? When something is on fire. We need to address the matter in more basic terms.\n\n(2) Combustible materials. Redundant. If a material is capable of rapid burning, by definition it's combustible. Also, "materials" is needlessly vague. One specific material, oxygen, is always involved.\n\n(3) Evolution of heat. I don't know what this is supposed to mean either.\n\n(4) Usually accompanied by flame. "Usually accompanied by" my arse. Flame is the quintessential pyrolytic phenomenon, not a mere by-product.\n\nNow for a proper definition, devised by myself: "Fire is the rapid combination of oxygen with fuel in the presence of heat, typically characterized by flame, a body of incandescent gas that contains and sustains the reaction and emits light and heat." Let's go through this bit by bit:\n\n(1) Rapid combination of oxygen with fuel in the presence of heat. Oxygen, fuel, and heat are the essential ingredients of fire. \n\n(2) Typically characterized by flame. The pup qualifier "typically" allows me to sidestep the issue of apparently nonflaming fires, like you get with burning charcoal. I suspect charcoal fires do create flame--you just can't see it due to the lack of impurities or incompletely burned fuel in the plume. (You can't see a fuel fire at an Indy or CART race either, because the cars run on clean-burning methanol.) But that's a matter we can leave for another day.\n\n(3) Body of incandescent gas. Flame defined. Most encyclopedia and dictionary definitions blow past this entirely, allowing persons such as yourself to imagine that fire is "pure energy" or similar nonsense. We say "body" because the gas has a characteristic structure and composition. We say "incandescent" because (a) it sounds scientific, (b) it means "luminous with intense heat," precisely what we are attempting to convey, and (c) if the Teeming Millions are going to learn one vocabulary word today, by God "incandescent" should be it.\n\n(4) Contains and sustains the reaction. Flame isn't just the result of fire; it is the fire. What's more, without the flame's heat the fire would go out.\n\n(5) Emits light and heat. Duh. However, we mustn't overlook the obvious.  \n\n>>>why do things that are put in it come out totally destroyed?\n\nOf course most things that go into fire aren’t totally destroyed. Most metals, glass, ceramic and so forth all emerge unscathed from fire. Even wood and paper aren’t totally destroyed, they leave an ash and charcoal residue as well as fine particles that we can see as soot and smoke.\n\nFire will ‘destroy’ anything organic that can be completely oxidised at the temperature that it burns at, but that is simply because the oxidation process converts the organic material to carbon dioxide,  and water. IOW the material isn’t destroyed it is just converted to gas and that gas blows away.\n\n>>>>>what fuel does it need from say, paper,\n\nThe paper IS the fuel the fire needs. The fire converts the paper into gases and ash. Or more accurately fire is the process of converting paper into gases and ash.
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In a fire, Oxygen is not the fuel, it is the oxidizer.  Depending upon what is burning, the fuel could be any number of things.\nOxygen does not burn, but is required for combustion.\n\nIn order for something to burn, 3 things are necessary,\n-Fuel\n-An oxidizer (Oxygen)\n-[activation] Energy\n\nUnless these 3 things are present, the object in question will not burn.\nIf we assume fuel and Oxidizer are plentiful, then the only thing left which will keep something from burning is that extra bit of energy needed to set off the reaction.  After one gets a fire going, usually, this energy is provided by the excess heat the fire generates, but it needs to be supplied initially by some form (for example, lighting a match to start light a candle).\nIf one were to take away the fire's ability to provide its own activation energy, it would go out unless supplemented by some outside source.\n\nWhen a gust of wind blow out a fire, it is blowing away the energy the fire needs to burn, it is cooling it off too much for it to continue burning.
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set the place on fire... then your out of work and you didnt have to quit or get fired.\n\nhaha no pun intended
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There are a couple different statistics based on the type of fire or how the fire was started.   I suggest reading the websites I listed in the sources section, they both seem official... you're going to have a hard time getting anything from 2005 to current, but 2004 is available.
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So what does your question have to do with the car being set on fire?
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................ about ..... Bush fire  there ..................
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Does the building have a name?  Google it.  Do you know the date of the fire?  Perhaps look it up in archives at the library or online.
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Massive power outage.  They tried to do routine maintenance last night and botched it all to hell.  It's going to be many hours for it to come up...if it does.