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This is the inner workings of a 35 year old smoke alarm, complete with 35 year old dust :)
I also processed this in black and white, after the fact. I'm fabulous at second guessing myself... :)
Happy Macro Monday!
A weekend of partying for someone very special...And when the honoree requested spiced cake with caramel icing, I had to try...This is my first attempt at caramel but turned out pretty good! I might have over done the candles a bit because the smoke alarm went off! lol
I visited the House of Nobility the year, since I got the thumbs up to photograph the interior. The Blue Room holds some exquisite 18th century East of India porcelain.
Had fun playing around with today's challenge although my wife thought I had become some kind of weekend arsonist!! Smokin' .....
Thanks to everyone for helping me to hit Explore!
Our Daily Challenge - SMOKE ....
... some buildings, like some humans .... radiate heat.
Instruction 51: 'Buildings are like humans and have their own character.' - Alexey Titarenko
This photograph, which comes to you by courtesy of the letter A, is my first picture for the February Alphabet Fun: 2021 group
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Fire Prevention Week is just around the corner. October 9th through 15th, 2011, fire services through out Ontario and North America will be promoting fire safety. The theme this year is "Protect Your Family from Fire!" As part of my provincial role, I'll be visiting fire departments throughout southwestern Ontario and assisting them as they promote Fire Prevention Week.
Currently, there are 463 fire departments in Ontario. Only 31 are full-time. 176 are composite departments (volunteer & full-time), and 256 are volunteer fire departments.
Didn't know that, did you?
Fire Prevention Week officially runs from Oct. 4-10, 2015, and it launched on Oct. 2 as Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto and Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Stephanie Cadieux joined City of Surrey fire chief Len Garis and Councillor Dave Woods for a smoke alarm demonstration that punctuates the need for working alarms in every bedroom.
About half of residential fire deaths occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. when residents are asleep.
Fire preparedness activities at fire halls and schools across the province will take place over the next week along with a series of tweets from Minister Yamamoto and a social media campaign delivered through Twitter aimed at providing fire safety tips to all British Columbians.
Fire Prevention Week aims to draw public awareness to fire safety and provides an opportunity to review evacuation plans, practice fire drills, test the batteries in fire alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, and ensure fire extinguishers are serviced and functioning.
Learn more at: ow.ly/SWC26
Fire Prevention Week officially runs from Oct. 4-10, 2015, and it launched on Oct. 2 as Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto and Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Stephanie Cadieux joined City of Surrey fire chief Len Garis and Councillor Dave Woods for a smoke alarm demonstration that punctuates the need for working alarms in every bedroom.
About half of residential fire deaths occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. when residents are asleep.
Fire preparedness activities at fire halls and schools across the province will take place over the next week along with a series of tweets from Minister Yamamoto and a social media campaign delivered through Twitter aimed at providing fire safety tips to all British Columbians.
Fire Prevention Week aims to draw public awareness to fire safety and provides an opportunity to review evacuation plans, practice fire drills, test the batteries in fire alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, and ensure fire extinguishers are serviced and functioning.
Learn more at: ow.ly/SWC26
Day 178 of the 365 Journey.
After 15.5 hours of taking pictures and driving about 100 plus miles all over the bay area, I was pretty beat. I didn’t get a chance to really eat any of the actual food during the reception but I managed to grab a piece of cake to take back to the hotel room on my way out! As long and exhausting as the day was, it really was a lot of fun. I can’t wait to start editing pics! MMMMmmmmmmm….cake!
Strobist:
Shutter Speed 1/200
Aperture 2.8
ISO 500
Lens – Tamron 17-35 Wide Angle
Focal Length –17MM
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580exII at 1/64 power with 45’’ Shoot thru umbrella approx 5 feet from subjects and 4 ft tall. Directly in front of subject..
Dogs in distress! Fire! Danger!
There is a story to explain Buddy and Lucky's obvious distress in this video. To wit: Because it was so hot here last week we decided on the spur of the moment to drive to a lodge high in the Sierra's. Convict Lake is at seven or eight thousand feet, a picture perfect lake framed by dramatic granite cliffs. The cabins are a bit funky but mainly quite nice. At four in the morning, the smoke alarm went off and not just beeping: "Fire...Fire" a voice kept repeating after intervals of a high pitch screech. The dogs were panic stricken at this screeching and strange voice warning of fire and danger. Stumbling out of bed from a REM sleep, at first alarmed that maybe there was indeed a fire, then realizing it was a false alarm, I was unable to reach the alarm to quiet it. I dragged a chair from the other room and finally pushed something that turned it off. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, having fallen back into solid REM asleep, it went off again. Back on the chair and this time I tried to take the battery out but the alarm was hard wired to the electric current of the cabin. Finally managed to pull the socket from the back of the alarm and set the alarm on the kitchen table. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, the alarm goes off again, powered by its internal back-up battery. I could not remove the internal battery because the device had been sealed, presumably to prevent people from tampering with it. I once again pushed the 'false alarm' button to quiet it and put it into the freezer compartment of the refigerator. Ten minutes later it went off again, and although muted, you could still hear the screech and voice announcing fire and danger. That was the end of the night.
First thing in the morning, with the smoke detector still doing its thing in the freezer, when I opened the door to the cabin the rattled dogs jumped into the car and refused to get back out. This is the portrait of the moment.....
The whole experience reminded me of a previous road trip confrontation with an alarm clock...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Fire Department says that legally mandated smoke alarms were absent at an Exposition Park home where an elderly man died and an LAFD Firefighter was injured on July 29, 2014. Use Permitted via Creative Commons - Mandatory Credit: LAFD Photo by Peter Sanders
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Fire Prevention Week officially runs from Oct. 4-10, 2015, and it launched on Oct. 2 as Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto and Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Stephanie Cadieux joined City of Surrey fire chief Len Garis and Councillor Dave Woods for a smoke alarm demonstration that punctuates the need for working alarms in every bedroom.
About half of residential fire deaths occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. when residents are asleep.
Fire preparedness activities at fire halls and schools across the province will take place over the next week along with a series of tweets from Minister Yamamoto and a social media campaign delivered through Twitter aimed at providing fire safety tips to all British Columbians.
Fire Prevention Week aims to draw public awareness to fire safety and provides an opportunity to review evacuation plans, practice fire drills, test the batteries in fire alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, and ensure fire extinguishers are serviced and functioning.
Learn more at: ow.ly/SWC26
Here is a clever standalone battery-powered smoke alarm with SMS capability. It does not need mains power. When its smoke detector detects a fire condition, it awakens the integrated GSM module. The GSM engine sends a warning text to a maximum of four mobile numbers. The FIRETEXT smoke alarm has a 9V Lithium battery that will provide a minimum of 36 continuous activations, and average use should result in a battery life of two to four years.
More at firetext.me.
Used in a personal journal entry today. dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.com/2025/06/beep-fire-fire.html
First Alert Onelink wireless Smoke Alarm. These talk and communicate with each other. If there is a fire in the kitchen all of the alarms will responsd by speaking the area.
The first arriving 24 firefighers quickly extinguished a non-injury structure fire in the 7100 block of S Brynhurst Av in Hyde Park, South LA. The overhaul operations to ensure all hot spots were addressed and the roof cleaned up were captured by local photographer.
LAFD Incident: 010821-0251
© Photo by Yvonne Griffin
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I planned to cook chilli; I put some oil in a large saucepan to heat up before putting the mince in to brown. The doorbell rang, I answered it and was chatting to a friend in the living room when the smoke alarm went off. Flames were flaring up from the pan on the stove. I removed it from the heat, the flames quickly died down and I put the saucepan outside. But the alarm kept going off as there was still quite a bit of smoke about so I fanned it with my blue spotted hankie😳
I took the photo using the "live" facility on my iPhone and picked out one of the shots.
The poster contest is a longstanding annual event used by the SFMO to promote fire safety awareness throughout Tennessee schools. This year’s contest theme corresponded with the National Fire Protection Association’s Fire Prevention Week campaign: “Don’t Wait – Check the Date! Replace Smoke Alarms Every 10 Years.”
Every day 7 people die in home fires and most die in homes without working smoke alarms. The American Red Cross working with volunteer participants, fire departments and other local agencies are canvassing at-risk neighborhoods to install free smoke alarms. The Felton Fire Department collaborated with the American Red Cross Central Coast Chapter and hosted a “Sound the Alarm” Campaign on August 24, 2019.
Photography by Virginia & Albert Becker | American Red Cross
The day after Valentine's Day, 65 Red Crossers converged at the El Dorado Mobile Home Park in Sunnyvale, where - along with the Sunnyvale Fire Department - they installed 322 free smoke alarms. Their efforts made 280 residents living in 98 homes safer from home fires.
Photography by Terry Unter/American Red Cross
Together with the San Jose Fire Department, Red Cross staff and volunteers spent their Saturday morning installing free smoke alarms at the Coyote Creek Mobile Home Community.
Photography by Larry Dietz/American Red Cross