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At 11:40PM on May 9, 2022 the Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to the 6400 block of N Independence AV in Woodland Hills for a reported structure fire.
Crews arrived to find heavy smoke showing from a one story, commercial (concrete tilt-up) building.
The fire intensified rapidly and with fire now showing through the roof, the incident transitioned to a defensive operation.
Firefighters knocked back the bulk of the fire and returned to offensive mode to reach the final pockets of fire. Ultimately, 74 firefighters extinguished the fire in 69 minutes with no injuries reported. LAFD Arson responded to investigate the cause of the fire.
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LAFD Incident: 050922-1835
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A vehicle fire in a fully loaded equipment and hay barn bring mutual aid from CT,NY, and MA . Unfortunately the fast moving fire totally destroyed the structure and it's contents.
The terrace of "Nalbero" is signed EFESTO! Efesto's structure is characterized from elegance , versatility , safety and quality.
Ophiomorpha burrows in subtidal fossiliferous aragonitic limestones (Cockburn Town Member, Grotto Beach Formation, lower Upper Pleistocene, 114-127 k.y.) at Ophiomorpha Bay, Cockburn Town Fossil Reef, western margin of San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas.
Trace fossils are indirect evidence of ancient life. They are structures representing the behavior of ancient organisms. Terrestrial traces are moderately common in the Quaternary limestones of San Salvador Island (& elsewhere in the Bahamas). The marine facies also have trace fossils.
Ophiomorpha is a moderately large, curvilinear, subcylindrical burrow having a externally pelleted lining that is constructed below the seafloor by callianassid shrimp (life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/soft_05.jpg). Differential weathering and erosion often results in empty Ophiomorpha tubes (intraburrow porosity) and significant interburrow porosity. For more info. on this, see below (= my personal notes from a talk presented by Al Curran).
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"Macroporosity and Permeability Related to Callianassid Bioturbation and Ophiomorpha Ichnofabric in Pleistocene Shallow-Marine Carbonates: Examples from the Bahamas and South Florida"
Al Curran (Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA)
Presented 18 June 2010 at the 15th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions, Gerace Research Centre, San Salvador Island, Bahamas
Looking at callianassid bioturbation & Ophiomorpha ichnofabric & environments conducive to callianassid habitation.
Ophiomorpha consists of branching, lined burrows - the tubes are smooth on the interior and distinctly pelletted on the outside. Callianassid shrimp (life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/soft_05.jpg) construct the lining. Ophiomorpha burrows can go quite deep. This ichnogenus goes back to the Middle Jurassic. The burrow is the habitation location for the shrimp - it hardly ever goes out after the larval stage.
Ophiomorpha architecture varies - shafts, tiered mazes, irregular boxworks. Shaft Ophiomorpha architecture is not found in the Bahamas or in carbonates.
Callianassids are decapod crustaceans (Thalassinidea). There are 155 living species of Family Callianassidae. Actually, there are now >200 species.
Callianassids are part of the marine benthos - they are mostly burrowers. They are gone north of Myrtle Beach. There’s a high number of species in the tropics. 95% of callianassids are intertidal to shallow marine.
Ichnofabric - all aspects of texture & internal structure of sediments from bioturbation.
Glypturus acanthocinus Stimpson, 1866 is the callianassid shrimp seen on San Salvador Island. This is the callianassid species that makes the mounded topography seen in Pigeon Creek in southeastern San Salvador Island, Bahamas - biogenic topography. Glypturus acanthocinus is an ecosystem engineer - it lives 1 to 1.5 m below the substrate. It’s hard to catch.
Glypturus acanthocinus burrow architecture - a tiered spiral is shown in the literature & by resin casts.
Callianassid tropical habitats - backreef lagoons, adjacent to & within coral reefs, leeward shelf of isolated platforms, platform shelves.
There’s probably >1 species of callianassid on San Salvador Island.
Shallow subtidal = backreef lagoonal environments & tidal channel environments.
Graham’s Harbour - it's ~1.5 m down to bedrock at the beach; bare areas are heavily callianassid burrowed & in grassbeds (despite what the literature says).
An excurrent structure occurs at the tip of the mound (sand volcano). An incurrent structure occurs at the base.
The pockets of burrows accumulate coarser-grained sediments, but this hasn’t been seen yet in the rock record.
Ophiomorpha walls are quite thick - up to 1 cm thick. Can get giant callianassid Ophiomorpha tunnels.
Ophiomorpha walls are a mix of sediments and fecal pellets (fine-grained sediments/mud).
Some have shafts/tunnels with blind endings (terminus structures).
Have also seen examples from Exuma and Rum Cay and from a stromatolite-bearing tidal channel at Lee Stocking Island (all in the Bahamas).
Some Ophiomorpha burrows have incorporated shells.
Shafts/tunnels are commonly 1.5 to 4 cm wide.
Favriina coprolites - callianassid fecal pellets - have networks of holes within them - the pattern is species-specific.
Ichnogenic macroporosity:
1) intraburrow porosity - tube interior
2) interburrow porosity - between burrows (in close proximity) - they form a framework - in such situations, the matrix is more likely to be removed than the framework itself.
Cockburn Town Fossil Reef on San Salvador Island - can see both intraburrow and interburrow porosity. Do the porosity patterns seen here occur at depth?
Miami Limestone & Biscayne Aquifer - the main water supply in southern Florida.
Floridan Aquifer - a deeper aquifer than Biscayne.
Biscayne Aquifer porosity - matrix porosity (mm scale or less) + macroporosity (caves & Ophiomorpha burrows).
Miami Limestone - cf. ooid shoals (intertidal/shallow subtidal of Joulter Cay - callianassids occur there).
Miami Zoo - the blocks that animals climb on & the facing stones there have Ophiomorpha ichnofabric.
Miami Limestone - air-rock - largely pore space - both intraburrow and interburrow porosity are present from lots of Ophiomorpha.
Florida's Alice Wainwright Park has Miami Limestone with Ophiomorpha, from Glypturus acanthochinus callianassid shrimp - have tiered spiral burrows. There is >1 Ophiomorpha maker species, apparently.
Examples of ichnogenic macroporosity:
1) Ophiomorpha macroporosity - Miami Limestone of southern Florida & Upper Pleistocene of Bahamas.
2) Thalassinoides (www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/jpg-Portland-Harbour/8PTH-U-Sa...) (Ex: superperm in the Ghawar Oil Field, Arabia)
3) mangroves
The church of St Dunstan-in-the-West is in Fleet Street in London, England. An octagonal structure, it is dedicated to a former bishop of London and archbishop of Canterbury.
First founded between 988 and 1070 A.D., there is a possibility that a church on this site was one of the Lundenwic strand settlement churches, like St Martin's in the Fields, the first St Mary le Strand, St Clement Danes and St Brides. These may well pre-date any of the churches within the City walled area. It is not known exactly when the original church was built, but it was possibly erected by Saint Dunstan himself, or priests who knew him well. It was first mentioned in written records in 1185. King Henry III gained possession of it and its endowments from Westminster Abbey by 1237 and then granted these and the advowson to the 'House of Converts' i.e. of the converted Jews, which led to its neglect of its parochial responsibilities. This institution was eventually transformed into the court of the Master of the Rolls.
The church has been associated with the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers (old English for shoemakers) since the fifteenth century. Once a year the company holds a service here to commemorate the benefactors John Fisher and Richard Minge, after which children used to be given a penny for each time they ran around the church.
Samuel Pepys mentions the church in his diary. The church narrowly escaped the Great Fire of London in 1666. The Dean of Westminster roused forty scholars from Westminster School in the middle of the night, who formed a fire brigade which extinguished the flames with buckets of water only three doors away.
However, Pepys only knew the old medieval building, which was taken down in the early 19th century. The present building was built on its predecessor's churchyard to allow the widening of Fleet Street.
A fragment of the old churchyard remains near Bream's Buildings.
The new building was designed by John Shaw the Elder (1776–1832) who died before the church was completed so it was left in the hands of his son John Shaw the Younger (1803–1870) in 1833. It is based on the design of St Helen's Pavement in York. The Shaws were prominent architects of Fleet Street who designed two other buildings (now offices) close to the church. The communion rail is a survivor of the old church, having been carved by Grinling Gibbons during the period when John Donne served as vicar (1624-1631).
Apart from losing its stained glass, the church survived the London Blitz largely intact, however, bombs from German bombers did damage the open-work lantern tower.The building was restored in 1950.
The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.
The church has often been associated with the legend of Sweeney Todd.
he church's facade holds an extraordinary chiming clock, with mannequins which strike the bells with their clubs. They perhaps represent Gog and Magog, the whole clock is mounted in a separate pavilion and dates from 1671 and adorned the previous church, perhaps commissioned to celebrate its escape from destruction in the Great Fire of 1666.[8] This was the first public clock in London to have a minute hand. The figures of the two giants strike the hours and quarters, and turn their heads. There are numerous literary references to the clock, including in Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown's Schooldays, Oliver Goldsmith’s the Vicar of Wakefield and a poem by William Cowper. In 1828, when the medieval church was demolished, the clock was removed by Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford to his mansion in Regent's Park, which later became the St Dunstan's College for the Blind. It was returned by the generosity of Lord Rothermere, the press baron, in 1935 to ostensibly mark the Jubilee of King George V.
There is also a statue of Queen Elizabeth I, placed above the entrance to the old parochial school in 1766, which was taken from the front of the old Ludgate which had been demolished at that time. This statue dates from 1586 and hence contemporary with her, it is thought to be the oldest outdoor statue in London. Within the porch below are three statues of ancient Britons also from the gate which were probably meant to represent King Lud and his two sons.
Adjacent to the Virgin Queen is a bust of Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper proprietor; co-founder (together with Lord Rothermere) of the Daily Mail, first popular daily newspaper, and the Daily Mirror in 1903. Northcliffe acquired The Times in 1914, and is regarded as one of the founders of modern mass circulation journalism. Next to Lord Northcliffe is a memorial tablet to James Louis Garvin, another pioneering British journalist.
St Dunstan-in-the-West is the only church in England to share its building with the Romanian Orthodox community. The chapel to the left of the main altar is closed off by an iconostasis formerly from Antim monastery in Bucharest, dedicated in 1966.
Rieske [2Fe-2S] protein (green) docked at the Qo site of cytochrome b (white). Partial structure from 3CX5.pdb.
Becán, Structure IX from the top of Structure VIII
Becan is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Becan is located near the center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day Mexican state of Campeche. The name Becan was bestowed on the site by archaeologists who rediscovered the site, meaning "ravine or canyon formed by water" in Yukatek Maya, after the site's most prominent and unusual feature, its surrounding ditch.
Archaeological evidence shows that Becan was occupied in the middle Pre-Classic period, about 550 BCE, and grew to a major population and ceremonial center a few hundred years later in the late Preclassic. The population and scale of construction declined in the early classic (c 250 CE), although it was still a significant site, and trade goods from Teotihuacan have been found. A ditch and ramparts were constructed around the site at this time. There is a ditch that runs the circumference of the city which covers approximately 25 hectares. Around 500 the population again increased dramatically and many large new buildings were constructed, mostly in the Rio Bec style of Maya architecture. Construction of major buildings and elite monuments stopped about 830, although ceramic evidence shows that the site continued to be occupied for some time thereafter, although the population went into decline and Becan was probably abandoned by about 1200.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becan)
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On May 6, 2023 at 5:45PM the Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire in the 640 block of S San Pedro Street in Downtown Los Angeles. The first arriving fire officer reported finding a two story commercial building with an outside fire which was extending into the building. He requested three additional task forces and the firefighters initiated an offensive operation.
Facing both rolling steel and heavy duty security doors, firefighters used rotary saws to cut their way into the building. Once inside, fire attack found the fire extending to just the area at the front of the building. The 38 firefighters on scene (prior to the assignment of the additionally requested fire companies), operating under the command of Battalion Chief Nicholas Ferrari, quickly got water on the blaze and achieved a full knockdown in 30 minutes. The fire was held at the front of the building and prevented from extending back through the structure.
One male firefighter sustained a non-life threatening leg injury while working to gain access to the building. He was transported to the hospital for care.
The fire was determined to have originated outside and extended into the building. A thorough search of the structure found no occupants inside.
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LAFD Incident: 050623-1278
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sculpture of tipi at Valley Springs rest area on I-90
David's thoughts about this picture selected in his top 25 of 2010:
This picture is unique point-of-view, facing vertical up from the ground. This is sculpture of tipi skeleton located in Valley Springs rest area in South Dakota.
First conceptional approach with the topic structure close-ups.
Shot with Nikon D5100.
ISO 400
38 mm
f/4.5
1/80 sec
Editing in PS Lightroom 5.
About 16:45, a structure fire was reported at 3629 Palmdale Blvd cross of Landon Avenue, LAC131's, with smoke showing 5 miles out. LAC Engine 131 arrived on scene to find a single story, single family dwelling well involved, with a majority of the fire to the rear of the structure. In addition to Engine 131, Engines 93, 37, 92, Quint 24, Squad 131, Patrol 92 and Battalion 17 got knockdown about 12 mintues later. No injuries and cause is unknown.
A view of the Union Switch & Signal Model S-8 electro-mechanical interlocking machine, showing both the mechanical levers (large levers extending to the floor) and electrical levers mounted above the frame.
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A tiered retaining wall winds between Rocky Top Drive and the Tijeras Canyon Arroyo in southeast Albuquerque.
Feb 17.13 - 3rd Alarm Apartment Structure Fire at 3526 Smith Ave in Burnaby BC
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