Today Julia joins the bonus podcast to talk about what they learned that didn’t make the final cut of the episode! Featuring fun fact about why there are so many fire fighters, children who fought fires, why three-pronged plugs are fire safety devices, and a tangent from me about fish.
Stuff we talk about in this episode:
- Cooking actually caused more fire deaths in 2014–2018 than in 1980–1984.
- Experimental Study of Induction Cooker Fire Hazard
- The five different types of fire extinguisher
- What Type of Fire Extinguisher Should Be Used on an Oil or Grease Fire?
- How To Use A Fire Extinguisher
- Our prettiest pollutant: just how bad are fireworks for the environment?
- Effect of fireworks events on urban background trace metal aerosol concentrations: Is the cocktail worth the show?
- Young flames: The effects of childhood exposure to fire on adult attitudes. (PDF downlaod)
- U.S. fire department profile
- What fire departments do
- Private vs. public ambulance services: What's the difference?
- History of fire extinguishers
- The unequal vulnerability of communities of color to wildfire
- Inequality in Agency Responsiveness: Evidence from Salient Wildfire Events
- The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US Counties: a century of data (PDF download)
- Why we work with fire (these are images Julia is talking about re: different controlled burn scenarios)
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