Sentence examples for consequences of a fire from inspiring English sources

It also recommended that GDF Suez undertake a risk assessment of the likelihood and consequences of a fire and the most effective protection for exposed coal surfaces.

Smoke and Heat Exhaust Ventilation Systems (SHEVS) are technical solutions used to limit the consequences of a fire in a building, related to the spread of the smoke.

The design and construction of the mining vehicle will have an important impact on the fire behavior and could possibly mitigate the consequences of a fire and allow fire personnel to extinguish a fire that otherwise would have had a too high heat release rate.

Worries about the radiological consequences of a fire in a spent fuel pool might seem otherworldly to those of us who have seen spent fuel pools and understand that they are 40 feet deep pools of water with very thick concrete walls lined with a thick, penetration-free steel liner.

FINALISTS -- The Courier-Journal, of Louisville, Ky., for its portrayal of how delays in the state's criminal justice system harmed victims and criminals alike; The Providence Journal, for coverage of the causes and consequences of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people; The Seattle Times, for articles that revealed sexual misconduct by coaches.

(Metereology, botany and sociology must be combinable to predict the consequences of a forest fire, say, even though each may have its own autonomous theoretical vocabulary).

As each colleague around him was discovered, confessed and suffered the consequences of a Major-induced firing, the former Tory leader kept his lips sealed.

They tell people to think of the consequences of firing a bullet, aiming to change community attitudes toward guns as if combating a disease — a public-health approach, as the center's director, Amy Ellenbogen, puts it.

Prescribed fire is increasingly being viewed as a valuable tool for mitigating the ecological consequences of long-term fire suppression within fire-adapted forest ecosystems.

To assess the consequences of fire management and fragmentation on fire regimes and forest communities, we simulated forest landscape change using LANDIS-II, a stochastic, spatially dynamic forest succession model that simulates the growth of tree species cohorts (defined by species and age), dispersal and colonization, and mortality.

"People had speculated about the ecological consequences of the fire regime in Australia," says Neil Burrows, a conservation scientist at the Department of Parks and Wildlife of Western Australia who was not involved in the new research.