With a dangerous fire season expected across northern New Mexico, Angel Fire Resort is setting aside a portion of sales from its summer opening weekend for a regional firefighter fund. Created by the resort, the Northern New Mexico ...
Bert Rubinsky, CEO of Medical Grade Innovations (MGI), is announcing he has been issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on fabric with antimicrobial properties. The patent number is 13/207,392. The fabric, ...
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North Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- Fire officials are investigating what caused a North Las Vegas recycling plant to go up in flames Sunday afternoon. It happened around noon near Craig and the I-15. Firefighters said the wind was a huge ...
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Smoke could be seen all over the bluegrass region today and the Lawrenceburg Fire Department says it was because of a fire at a glass recycling plant. Firefighters say it started around noon when a pile of glass behind Dlubak Glass ...
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Strong Santa Ana winds in Southern California coupled with record high temperatures and low humidity have led to a series of wildfires. One of the largest blazes in Ventura County forced evacuations of neighborhoods in Camarillo and ...
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A Florida bill that would impose restrictions on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, by state law enforcement officials is one signature away from becoming the first law of its kind in the country. On Wednesday, Florida's ...
A major fire ripped through Smurfit Kappa’s paper mill on Wednesday night (17 April). Some 9,000 tonnes of cardboard bales were well alight [nearly a quarter of its stock supply], covering seven acres of a 22-acre site. West ...
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West Midlands Fire Service said more than 15 fire engines were at the Smurfit Kappa plant, a mill that packaging papers, in Nechells. About 100 firefighters remain at the scene of the blaze in Mount Street, which broke out shortly after ...
Wichita, Kan.-based polymer and fiber producer Invista has acquired Greenville-based Ashburn Hill Corp. including its TECGEN® brands of flame-resistant (FR) apparel and its Angleton, Texas-based manufacturing operation. "Invista has ...
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New ways in which people can use their voices, hand gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers are being developed by software engineers using Intel tools, it was reported last week. In coming years, their research is ...
Software engineers are using Intel tools to explore new ways people can use their voices, hand gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers. In coming years, their research is expected to yield tools that could help developers ...
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Heart attacks and cardiac events are the leading cause of firefighter Line of Duty Deaths (LODDs), resulting in over half of LODDs in 2011. But new technologies, such as the Wearable Advanced Sensor Platform (WASP), show promise in reducing ...
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Software engineers at Intel are exploring new ways people can use the human voice, gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers. Intel's Barry Solomon uses hand gestures in a demonstration of a perceptual computing toolkit ...
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Motorcyclists do it. Construction workers do it. And the rule for more and more skiers and snowboarders is: Not without my helmet! While it used to be mainly small children and safety fanatics who used ski helmets, many winter sports ...
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Streamlight is an ISO 9001:2000 registered company located in Eagleville, Pennsylvania that manufactures flashlights powered by various rechargeable and disposable batteries. Streamlight flashlights are often used by public safety ...
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