These cut off power or even sacrifice themselves to help prevent electrical problems from escalating into fires.
Once the unrest escalated — with fires cropping up around the city and people throwing items at officers — the department failed even further thanks to inadequate planning, unexpected changes in command roles and vague arrest policies.
Projected climate change is likely to further escalate fire related emissions from savannas, due mainly to changes in weather related attributes (temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, wind speed and solar radiation) and fuel related attributes (fuel load and moisture content) [5, 6].
But in recent years, calls for the military to leave Makua have escalated, and fire has often been the catalyst.
The stage was set for the football players' visit to the bowling alley Feb. 6 and for the state troopers' armed reply Feb. 8. Jack Bass, the co-author with Jack Nelson of the definitive history of the episode, "The Orangeburg Massacre," wrote of that night's events: "After two days of escalating tension, a fire truck was called to douse a bonfire lit by students on a street in front of the campus.
Last month, frustrated youths took to the crumbling streets of Conakry for three days, throwing stones and setting tires on fire in escalating protests over high gas prices.
DAKAR, Senegal — Frustrated youths took to the crumbling streets of Guinea's capital, Conakry, for the third day in a row on Tuesday, throwing stones and setting tires on fire in escalating protests over high gas prices.
Protests erupted and the police opened fire, igniting an escalating cycle of demonstrations and violence.
The ratings agency said Tesco was coming under fire amid an escalating supermarket price war in the UK while its remaining international operations were being buffeted by "economic and political headwinds".
The passage of a resolution late Tuesday night demanding an immediate cease-fire in the escalating bloodshed between Israel and the Palestinians was praised today as the most significant response by the Security Council since the conflict erupted more than 17 months ago.
