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What excited Lean was a change of scale: matchstick to ball of fire, catastrophe to teacups, great expectations to small wonders.
When this is over, it may well be the state's worst fire catastrophe in recorded history by any measure.
SIMPLY stated, property and casualty insurance provides that in exchange for a relatively small amount of money paid by a policyholder, an insurer promises to pay a relatively large amount of money if a relatively unlikely event -- like a fire or other catastrophe -- occurs.
HERE'S an exercise for homeowners or renters who think their property and casualty insurance will reimburse them fully in case of a fire or other catastrophe: Sit down and make a list of the contents of a room in another part of the house or apartment.
He went on: "It is also very unlikely that the plane could have carried on flying for hours after it had indeed suffered a fire or other mechanical catastrophe".
On a slightly different vein, Sidaya (2006) carried out a study whose main purpose was to analyze what strategies small and medium businesses actually adopt when confronted with a major crisis such as a fire, flood, or similar catastrophe and determine what factors proved vital to the survival of the business in Australia.
It has often been characterized by a fire department's urgency, rushing from catastrophe to calamity.
Following the attacks of September 11, Wei became a documentarian of similar catastrophes, from a fire in a Shanghai high rise in 2010, to the massacre at Paris' Bataclan last year.
The Palace will either suffer a major catastrophe such as a fire similar to the one which burned down the old Houses of Parliament in 1834, or a series of cumulative smaller failures – water, gas, electricity, asbestos, stonework, sewerage – which will bring the infrastructure of the Palace to a standstill, or cause irreparable damage to Charles Barry and AWN Pugin's masterpiece.
The Insurance Council of Australia has declared the fire a "catastrophe", meaning claims by those affected by the blaze will be given priority.
