Fire! Fire! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire! Fire! write by Gail Gibbons. This book was released on 1987-03-01. Fire! Fire! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The alarm sounds. Fire! Fire! Big trucks roll out of the firehouse and race to the scene. Out come the soft hoses and aerial ladders. Whether the fire is in the city or in the country, on the waterfront or in a deep forest, firefighters are on the scene in moments, ready to attack the blaze.
The Hamlet Fire
The Hamlet Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hamlet Fire write by Bryant Simon. This book was released on 2020-07-23. The Hamlet Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.
Fire
Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire write by Stephen J. Pyne. This book was released on 2019-08-12. Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal economies of hunting and foraging, agricultural and pastoral uses of fire, fire ceremonies, fire as an idea and a technology, and industrial fire. In this revised and expanded edition, Pyne looks to the future of fire as a constant, defining presence on Earth. A new chapter explores the importance of fire in the twenty-first century, with special attention to its role in the Anthropocene, or what he posits might equally be called the Pyrocene.
Fire in America
Fire in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire in America write by Stephen J. Pyne. This book was released on 2017-01-27. Fire in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Fire Star
Fire Star - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire Star write by Chris d'Lacey. This book was released on 2011-01-20. Fire Star available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A research trip to the Arctic and a new book - life can't get much better for David Rain. As soon as David finds himself in the icy climes, he starts to write his story of bears, dragons and the mysterious fire star. Soon he realises that his tale is beginning to mirror real life, and that an old adversary is on her way to meet him. Can David thwart her terrible master plan? Or will his world be destroyed for ever?
