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Alarm System

Description: Patent for a fire alarm system which activates when a certain temperature is detected by the device.
Date: May 25, 1909
Creator: Giese, Leo
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Automatic Fire-Alarm.

Description: Patent for the automatic fire alarm system relates to a fusing wire that reacts to any heat or fire by closing circuit inside of the battery resulting in sounding off the alarm, and thus, improving the fire-alarm system structure.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Fred, Mason K.
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Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.

Description: Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date: December 31, 1896
Creator: Flatau, Louis, S.
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Automatic Fire-Alarm.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic fire-alarm, which will sound an alarm, release water from pipes, and alert the fire station.
Date: March 17, 1914
Creator: Singleton, Joseph J. C.
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Best Practices for TxDOT on Handling Wildfires

Description: This is a report on the record setting wildfires in 2011 in the State of Texas. The research in the report follows lessons learned in responding to wildfires and the application of those lessons toward establishing best practices.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Nash, Phillip T.; Senadheera, Sanjaya; Beierle, Micah; Kurnfer, Wesley & Wilson, Dannia
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Fires in Texas: Annual Fire Statistics, 2011

Description: Report of statistics collected by the Texas Fire Incident Reporting System (TEXFIRS) by the Texas State Marshal's Office and Department of Insurance for calendar year 2011. It includes general analyses and breakdowns by specific types of fires, with some explanatory notes.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance.
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Fires in Texas: Annual Fire Statistics, 2009

Description: Report of statistics collected by the Texas Fire Incident Reporting System (TEXFIRS) by the Texas State Marshal's Office and Department of Insurance for calendar year 2009. It includes general analyses and breakdowns by specific types of fires, with some explanatory notes.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance.
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Fires in Texas: Annual Fire Statistics, 2010

Description: Report of statistics collected by the Texas Fire Incident Reporting System (TEXFIRS) by the Texas State Marshal's Office and Department of Insurance for calendar year 2010. It includes general analyses and breakdowns by specific types of fires, with some explanatory notes.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance.
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Fires in Texas: Annual Fire Statistics, 2012

Description: Report of statistics collected by the Texas Fire Incident Reporting System (TEXFIRS) by the Texas State Marshal's Office and Department of Insurance for calendar year 2012. It includes general analyses and breakdowns by specific types of fires, with some explanatory notes.
Date: October 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance.
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Improvement in Fire-Escapes.

Description: Patent for improving fire-escapes and provides a portable instrument that "may be used for letting persons directly down from buildings, or for carrying them from the upper stories of buildings to others buildings at a distance" (lines 9-12).
Date: August 28, 1877
Creator: Staples, George S.
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Improvement in Fire-Escapes.

Description: Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
Date: September 11, 1877
Creator: Shishmanian, George N.
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Hydrant.

Description: Patent for hydrant with plurality of hose attachments. Attachment of hose opens head for egress of water, detachment closes head for egress of water.
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Duey, Otus E.
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Projectile for Fire-Escapes.

Description: Patent for a rope fire escape "in the form of a harpoon to which a chord or rope is attached, said device being projected from a gun or by any other means against the burning building with sufficient force to embed itself therein so that any suitable apparatus may be elevated to the building necessary for the escape of the inmates or so that the person or persons may descend by the rope attached to the harpoon" (lines 14-22).
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Martin, Johan
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Grate.

Description: Patent for an improved grate that is adapted "for use in stoves as well as in fire paces, and which, being composed of separate bars, may be repaired by inserting new bars, thus saving that portion of the grate which remains intact, as cannot be done with grates formed of a single casting" (lines 18-23).
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Chollar, Benjamin Franklin
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