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The Grampians in Victoria have been burning for days, and are expected to burn for weeks. Total Fire Ban declared for Victoria tomorrow, and Catastrophic conditions expected on Boxing Day. Stay safe, all.

With El Niño and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole, Australia is bracing for a hot and dry summer. With a lot of fuel load from the last three growing years, the country is a tinderbox waiting to be sparked off. A positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) plus El Niño in Australia likely to cause hot and...

I've been getting a few reports from clients reporting they've been harassed by some sort of unidentified 'cult' posing as FIRE adherents and offering early retirement financial advice. Example of a report in the cults subreddit: [Has anyone been approached by F.I.R.E.?] My best guess is not a...

This is a good example of a building that collapsed due to fire. Of course, this in no way proves the collapse the towers was real, but proves buildings could collapse due to fire. Period. Ok, it's true that there was NOT a total collapse, actually only the upper floors collapsed and the...

“...Fire can't weaken steel or cause it to fail! It's steel for crying out loud!” How many times have we heard THIS argument? This seems to mostly be an argument advanced by people who really haven't bothered to examine how steel is made, or how steel is manufactured and fabricated. This is a...

As I am reading through the threads catching up on the past few months of not lurking through the sub-forum, I see the argument that fire wasn't enough to destroy 3 buildings in one day rearing its ugly head still. First of all, I am not arguing that fire alone caused the collapse of the 3...

I didn't see a thread on this, so... There is a massive wildfire raging in the forests and mountains around Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where I work. LANL is one of the oldest and largest national laboratories, home of the atomic bomb as well as of copious non-weapons related science...

Hi. This is my first post and excited to be with other fellow skeptics. Came across this video recently and didn't have an answer as to how, this could be possible. Maybe you guys already encountered this. I personally feel this Yogi is another trickster, but not sure how he could accomplish the...

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/12/copper_thieves_christmas_tree.html The Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but in Birmingham it was copper thieves who torched a Christmas tree in downtown's Linn Park.

Back in 2008 the FDNY, Department of Homeland Security, NIST, and a few other major city Fire Departments conducted tests to study the effects of fire under heavy wind conditions. (Article here) Well I completely forgot that the complete studies were released in early 2009 and I haven't seen...

The Associated Press State & Local Wire September 9, 2001, Sunday, BC cycle Two killed in fire in Salina SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 182 words DATELINE: SALINA, Kan. An adult and a young girl were killed in an early morning house fire Saturday. Patrick Steven Hubbard, 22, and...

Can anyone explain to me what the deal is with this new meme among Truthers where they deny the existence of fires in pictures that show a great deal of smoke? Is this some new denial tactic? Some new persuasive techniques? Are they just playing games to get on our nerves? Is it a desperate...

Heard interview on radio tonight about new book "FIREFIGHT" - book details impact of Flight 77 into building and resulting fire and rescue operations. Written by 2 firefighters describes how firefighters fought the massive fires in the building...

The truthers claim that burning jet fuel was not the cause of the collapse, i agree as most of the fuel would be burnt off after 10 mins. The truthers claim that burning office equipment, furniture etc, has never resulted in a collapse, this is a false claim because most people who do...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EEDD103EF933A15751C1A9679C8B63 A NATION CHALLENGED: THE TRADE CENTER; City Had Been Warned of Fuel Tank at 7 World Trade Center Fire Department officials warned the city and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1998 and 1999 that a...

So lightning appears to have struck the steeple of a Nashville church, and started a fire. The article headline in the paper read "Members 'blessed' as church survives major fire damage" There are statements quoted in the article such as "it could have burned everything down", and a few other...

How long before the twoofers jump on the fact that the 9/11 damaged Deutsche bank building is still standing after its recent fire? Will they take into account that the building was being dismantled ? Will they take into account that firefighters had adequate water supplies to fight the fire ?

From editorial by Steve Milloy... Herbert Levine, a fireproofing inventor, reportedly said "If a fire breaks out above the 64th floor, [the WTC] will collapse" after his fireproofing was banned due to reports of danger from the asbestos it was based on. Because of this, the Twin Towers were...

WTC fires, thick black smoke. Claimed by troofers to indicate low temperature and lack of oxygen. http://www.infowars.com/images2/world/madrid_%20wtc_fires.jpg (Image linked from infowars.com without permission. @#$% you, Alex Jones. :p ) Buncefield Oil Terminal Fire, December 11, 2005. Thick...

http://429truth.org/ I can't tell if this is a parody or not

Can a get a couple of links for a few non-WTC examples please? Someone's arguing the whole "never happened before 9/11" thing, and I need something to counter it with.

I've been doing to reading up on the windsor tower and it's quite interesting. The tower collapsed from floor 17 and above (besides the core), it turns out that no floors abover floor 16 had fire proofing. Sound familiar? Floor 9 also was missing fire-proofing and that ended up looking like...

Several homes were destroyed in a brush fire in Malibu. During an interview with an eyewitness the following was said This has lead me to surmise using my common sense and applying what I have learned on the LC site that explosives were set to destroy the houses.

As you know, a CT will rarely show footage or pictures of the south side of WTC7. The reason for this is because there were billowing clouds of smoke pouring out of it for hours and that does not comply with their theory. They like to claim that there were only small fires in WTC7. So my...

Slightly off topic - Below is invitiation I received about seminar in New Jersey Many FDNY personalities will be attending who were involved with 9/11 (Capt Fuentes was buried in debris from WTC collapse and severly injured), Vincent Dunn is author of Collapse of Buurning Buildings - the bible...

Of course, they suspected that Palestinian insurgents had hidden themselves in the crowd, so I imagine they think they were justified. What I wonder about is how a 12 year old girl looks like a bearded insurgent through a rifle scope? Palestinian girl, 12, killed by Israeli sniper fire...

http://vincentdunn.com/wtc.html Surprised no one else found this. Just had it emailed to me.

I'm sure it's a comfort to Yvette Cade, lying in her hospital bed with burns over 60% of her body, that the judge has been removed from domestic violence cases. This appears to raise a question I'd asked a number of times (maybe even here): Has a court order of protection ever stopped a guy...

I just recently watched Fire in the Sky again and was interested in the "true story" behind this supposed encounter. Not surprisingly, the movie has composited some characters, and left out some details here and there. Surprisingly, the basics behind the initial encounter and the following...

From Times Online: I guess he won't be doing much business for a while. :D