Fire Fighting

In this section we will learn how mooring lines are called in maritime English, especially: Head and Stern lines Breast lines Spring lines 

The objective of this section is to gain an understanding of characteristics of buoys and the buoyage system. 

If you've been to China, you will have noticed the lack of fire detectors in homes and office buildings. We won't be solving this problem with today's ChinesePod lesson, but we will be providing you with the language tools to alert others if there is a fire. You ...

Aircraft Fire Protection Systems for the Engines and APU provide Fire and overheat detection and extinguishing systems (as opposed to just fire or smoke detection like in other systems). The engines and the APU each have their own fire and overheat detection systems. These consis ...  Show more

Tune in to explore how the new fire training facility is setting the standard for fire safety and training with guests Sean Daniels, interim fire chief, and Pete Goslin, longtime volunteer firefighter. 

Fire is chaos. Fire doesn’t care what it destroys or who it kills—it spreads without mercy, leaving total destruction in its wake, as California’s Camp and Woolsey fires proved so dramatically this month. But fire is to a large degree predictable. It follows certain rules and pre ...  Show more