Update: Clay Fire in Riverside County nears full containment at 98%
Clay Fire initially started 5 p.m. Jan. 21 in Riverside County. After being active for three days, it has burned 39 acres. As ...
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Behavioural study of FLGQ and Country burnt clay brick prism in stack and staggered bond subjected to uni axial loading
Prisms with and without mortar joint patterns were constructed using FLGQ and country burned clay brick. A detailed description of test and results is provided below. The stack and staggered bond ...
Orange County Register20d
OCFA firefighter suffers cardiac arrest, dies, fighting house fire in Laguna Niguel
A veteran Orange County Fire Authority engineer suffered cardiac arrest and died after searching for any residents during a kitchen fire at a Laguna Niguel home early Sunday morning, Jan. 5 ...
BBC22d
Homes built with clay, grass, plastic and glass: How a Caribbean island is shying away from concrete
But every other structure has touches of the earth. Clay, harvested from the land nearby; timber from the trees further back on the farm; repurposed glass bottles of all colours that glitter as ...
CNN22d
Huge fire at Ghanaian clothing market destroys hundreds of stalls
A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital Accra has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest ...
kcra.com23d
2 teenagers died in fire at Somerset home; neighbors still in shock
NEIGHBORS ABOUT HOW THEY’RE COPING WITH THIS TRAGEDY. THIS IS WHAT’S LEFT OF A SOMERSET HOME AFTER A NEW YEAR’S DAY FIRE. I’M STILL A LITTLE EMOTIONAL STRUCK. YOU KNOW, IT’S EVERY TIME I ...
MyJoyOnline23d
Fire destroys Kantamanto Market, displaces hundreds of traders
Hundreds of traders have been displaced following a devastating fire that engulfed Kantamanto Market in Accra's Central Business District, reducing nearly the entire market to ashes. The blaze ...
Wall Street Journal25d
Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Likely to Elude Biden
Cease-fire talks between Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Israeli government have hit an impasse in recent days, Arab mediators said, making any deal unlikely before the end of the Biden ...
NBC 6 South Florida25d
Video shows smoke pouring out of downtown Miami high-rise from apparent fire
Video showed how smoke billowed from a downtown Miami high-rise on Tuesday morning as emergency crews responded to an apparent fire at the scene. Miami police said they were on scene in the area ...
Smithsonian Magazine26d
Archaeologists Discover Rare Clay Commander Among Thousands of Life-Size Terra-Cotta Soldiers in China
The 2,000-year-old military general figurine is the tenth of its kind to be excavated from the emperor Qin Shi Huang’s tomb, which may hold up to 8,000 clay statues Sonja Anderson Daily ...
Khaleej Times26d
Al Barsha building fire: Residents evacuated, street near Mall of the Emirates closed
A fire that broke out in a building near Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates on Sunday night was swiftly put out with no reported casualties. In a statement to Khaleej Times, the Dubai Civil Defence ...
The Straits Times26d
Three foreigners die in hotel fire in Bangkok’s backpacker district
BANGKOK-Three people from the United States, Brazil and Ukraine were killed after a fire broke out at a hotel near Bangkok’s popular backpacker district on the night of Dec 29, the authorities ...