containment

Ex-university instructor charged with setting 4 California fires

Earlier this month, a federal grand jury in Sacramento, California, indicted a former university instructor on charges related to an arson spree near the massive Dixie fire this summer.

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The indictment charges Gary Stephen Maynard, 47, of San Jose, California, with setting four small fires over the course of two weeks in July and August. According to prosecutors, two of the blazes could have trapped firefighters battling the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ex-university-instructor-charged-with-setting-4-california-fires

Colorado wildfire prompts road closure, evacuations

Kruger Rock fire in northern Colorado.

Officials in northern Colorado urged residents near the Kruger Rock fire to evacuate immediately, and a stretch of highway in the area remained closed.

The Larimer County, Colorado, Sheriff’s Office said an investigation has revealed that high winds blew a tree onto a nearby powerline causing it to arc and start the fire.

Related: Self-described ‘shaman’ arrested in California wildfire arson

The late-season blaze started early Tuesday morning near Estes Park, just east of Rocky Mountain National...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/colorado-wildfire-prompts-road-closure-evacuations

Scientific advancements in oil spill containment prove successful

An innovative sub surface oil containment and recovery system, installed in April 2019 over a damaged oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, is successfully preventing more than 1,000 gallons of oil per day from entering the environment. Scientific research and lessons learned following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have allowed the development of unique oil spill response systems such as this to help protect the maritime environment from future threats.

In 2004 during Hurricane Ivan the Taylor...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/scientific-advancements-in-oil-spill-containment-prove-successful/

How & When Will the COVID19 Pandemic End?

  • How the coronavirus pandemic will end depends on our collective effort in developing a mixture of strategies that we have learned from past pandemics.
  • 3 epidemics from the past hold the lessons which will see us through this pandemic.
  • The Spanish flu of 1918 shows how natural immunity will develop and we have to live with the disease for certain years.
  • The 2003 SARS pandemic shows the effectiveness of  containment and social distancing
  • The more recent swine flu epidemic shows how vaccines &...

https://mfame.guru/how-when-will-the-covid19-pandemic-end/

USCG says Gulf oil leak finally contained after 14 years

Diver working on the containment installation amidst oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico. USCG photo

The Coast Guard and a team of contractors successfully deployed a subsea system that is able to contain and collect oil being discharged from the Taylor Energy Co. Mississippi Canyon 20 toppled oil platform site 11 miles south of the Louisiana shoreline. The containment system is actively collecting oil.

The installation of the containment system is a major milestone in the Coast Guard’s efforts to contain the Taylor Energy MC20 oil spill that has affected the waters off the Gulf Coast for 14...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/uscg-says-gulf-oil-leak-finally-contained-after-14-years/