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The building was inaugurated in 1891 as the new main fire station in Gothenburg. The tower was used to hang hoses to dry.
The first volunteer fire department was formed in Gothenburg in 1832. In 1872, Gothenburg got the first professional fire department in Sweden. As Gothenburg expanded rapidly, the need for a new, modern main fire station increased. This new fire station was designed by architect Georg Krüger.
On the ground floor there was a carriage hall and stables for twelve horses. On the two upper floors there were lodgings with space for about 30 firefighters plus five apartments for fire officers. From the first floor, firefighters could ride on a pole to quickly get down to the carriage hall.
In 1914, the fire station received its first fire truck. This led to the horses being replaced with fire trucks, and in 1919 the last horse left the station.
When a new modern fire station was built in 1988, the building was converted into offices on the upper floors and a market hall on the ground floor. Over time, the market hall has developed into a food court with a number of restaurants. The pole the firefighters used can still be seen between the restaurants.
Owner of the building: Higab.
www.higab.se/vara-hus/briggen/ (website in Swedish)
THE biggest live exercise of its kind ever held in Greater Manchester – Exercise Triton II – came to an end this morning (Friday, July 16, 2016) after months of intense planning.
Around 36 organisations across the region and nationally have been taking part in this major emergency planning exercise which saw dozens of emergency vehicles at sites across Greater Manchester and Chinook helicopters flying across the skies.
The complex scenario used was designed to test how local authorities, emergency services and other partners are equipped to tackle a major emergency working together.
Participating ‘players’ also included the military, government, health and utility companies, as well as voluntary agencies.
The exercise started on Monday, July 11, 2016, with ‘warnings’ from the Met Office regarding adverse weather and from the Environment Agency about the growing risk of regional flooding.
The emergency services, including Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), and partners put procedures in place to ensure that where possible properties and critical infrastructure were protected and the public were warned. This theme was carried on through Tuesday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
To ensure that both players and plans were tested to their full, a dramatic scenario developed on Thursday, July 14, whereby the bank on the Dove Stone Reservoir in Oldham was breached and water cascaded through a number of boroughs within Greater Manchester.
This meant that evacuation procedures had to be put in place and rest centres set up. Later in the day, a coach ploughed into the River Tame in a mock crash and a full-scale search and rescue operation was carried out.
Paul Argyle, GMFRS’ Deputy County Fire Officer and Chair of Greater Manchester Resilience Forum, said: “Exercise Triton II was a hugely complex emergency planning exercise and I would like to thank all of the agencies that have taken part this week.
"This was a very detailed scenario which had impacts across every part of the region and necessitated a full range of partners taking part.
"The scale of the destruction and chaos in the exercise was deliberately designed to test the region at full stretch.
"We have to do this to ensure we are well prepared to deal with any future real-life event or disaster that might occur – and it is also invaluable that those taking part got the chance to practise essential response skills that would be used during a major incident like this.
"I would particularly like to thank all the volunteers who took part in this exercise. The patience and understanding of local residents and communities on Thursday (as response plans went into effect at 'live' sites) was also greatly appreciated.
“All players have now been 'stood down'. Our next task is to evaluate how the exercise went, step by step. We will want to find out what worked well and crucially to identify and learn any lessons that could help us in the future in real-life situations. I would like to point out that incidents as extreme as this are highly unlikely, but ensuring we practice our response means that we are ready to respond to a variety of scenarios."
A rare American sports car the Avantii II was made by the Avanti Motor Corporation. Production of the Avanti II models began in 1964 and continued until 1984.
View the entire photo and video shoot of this neo-classic 1980 Avanti II.
El teatro auditorio de Roquetas de Mar se ha convertido en uno de los referentes inexcusables de la cultura en Andalucía.
El Teatro Auditorio de Roquetas de Mar fue construido en treinta meses, tiempo record para un edificio de su envergadura, y costó 15,5 millones de euros. Obra del arquitecto, Miguel Ángel Morales , el edificio está organizado volumétricamente mediante cuerpos geométricos fácilmente reconocibles, que dan cabida a requerimientos funcionales muy específicos interrelacionados entre sí, de forma que proporciona al conjunto un sentido escultórico y abstracto. Estas interrelaciones se acentúan interiormente con el tratamiento de los espacios y la luz natural, con la sutil combinación de la luz natural directa, la luz cenital, los espacios vertidos entre plantas, los continuos cambios de escalas de los espacios interiores y un largo etcétera, que contribuye a estremecer los sentimientos del visitante.
Another shot out at Jim Baker Reservoir. I used the Tamron SP 180mm f2.5 LD IF to try and compress the scene.
This truck has sat in this spot for years, I have never seen it move yet it appears to be holding up well.
1967 Dean Van Lines Special Brawner Hawk II, with a Ford V8. Driven by Mario Andretti in the Indy 500.
The best thing about the Indianapolis airport is that they always gave cars to sketch - and they rotate them, so I get to sketch different cars every time I come here. Very thoughtful of them.
Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct. Three species of elephant are generally recognized today: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant (also known as the Indian elephant). However, some researchers postulate the existence of a fourth species of elephant in West Africa. All other species and genera of Elephantidae are extinct. Most have been extinct since the last ice age, although dwarf forms of mammoths might have survived as late as 2,000 BCE. Elephants and other Elephantidae were once classified with other thick-skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata.
Elephants are the largest living land animals on Earth today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 105 kilograms (230 lb). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This male weighed about 24,000 lb (11,000 kg), with a shoulder height of 3.96 metres (13.0 ft), a metre (yard) taller than the average male African elephant. The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.
Elephants are a symbol of wisdom in Asian cultures and are famed for their memory and intelligence, where their intelligence level is thought to be equal to that of dolphins and primates. Aristotle once said the elephant was "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind." The word "elephant" has its origins in the Greek ἐλέφας, meaning "ivory" or "elephant".
According to observations, healthy adult elephants have no natural predators,[19] although lions may take calves or weak individuals.[20][21] They are, however, threatened by human intrusion and poaching.
Examination of an automotive lamp to determine the cause of filament premature rupture.
Courtesy of FRANCISCO RANGEL
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta Family
Magnification: 588X
Horizontal Field Width: 508 μm
Vacuum: 1.6e-6 mbar
Voltage: 30 kV
Spot: 3.1
Working Distance: 29.7
Detector: SE