Mike Burroughs
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Mike Burroughs
@MikeBurroughsFI
Forensic Fire Investigator
United Kingdom Katılım Şubat 2013
72 Takip Edilen61 Takipçiler
@DannyHopkin @OfrConsultants I have just completed the questionnaire and would encourage my friends, colleagues and followers to do the same>
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Twittersphere, can you help team @OfrConsultants better understand kitchen fire hazards by telling us a bit about how you cook? 🍳🔥
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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@rorymiles Excellent, Thanks Rory ... also thanks to whoever invented slow motion!
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Who doesn't need a visual reminder that piloted ignition is all about creating a mixture of flammable vapour and air with a concentration equal to the lower flammability limit?
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@PyroClaire Every fire scientist should have one 🧐🔬(no I don't have shares!) I'll spare you the selfie but always amazed by my thermal reflection in a window. Great for finding overheating electrical joints, aim at the plug next time you boil the kettle ... also works on ice cubes in gin😉
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Might have bought a new toy in the sales. I have no regrets
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@GuillermoRein For the UK, I would suggest Mark Hardingham who is newly appointed chair of National Fire Chiefs Council and Chief Fire Officer of Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service.
NFCC also has a wildfire group.
... but I suspect you have global ambition as well!
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I have been thinking and I want to create Fire Day. Who do I need to talk?
*Fire Day encourages the public to learn more about fire, and to support the prevention and fighting of accidental fires in buildings and in the wild*
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@ClaireMBelcher @GSI_Exeter @UofE_Research @SarahBaker189 Good to see you all back. Keep up the good work and keep well!
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Hooray first day back in wildFIRELab today! Back to lab based research @GSI_Exeter @UofE_Research
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@WFSUK1 @LondonFire Congratulations to both of you. I know Lynsey well so also know the accolade is richly deserved. I have yet to meet Dr Anne but I am sure the same applies
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'Dany Cotton Inspiring Leader' award joint winners - Dr Anne Scoging & Lynsey Seal @LondonFire who both display outstanding leadership characteristics alongside being very dedicated, professional & caring individuals who will be shocked & exceedingly humble knowing they have won
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Setting something on fire & sending it into the sky towards an unknown destination, during the grassfire season, whilst the NHS & fire & rescue services respond to a global pandemic, is a strange way of showing your support.
So strange in fact, that we would say: DO NOT DO THAT
Night Sky Lanterns ®@NightSkyLantern
#ShineALight Support UK NHS with Union Jack Sky Lantern while #StayAtHome nightskylanterns.co.uk/support-uk-nhs…
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@LondonFire "An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure" Benjamin Franklin 1736. As true now as it was then
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Fires in #London are at their lowest ever level since records began in 1966. The reduction in fires over the last ten years have been largely down to our integrated & targeted approach to fire safety bit.ly/38alwcF
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Great branch committee meeting this morning with old and new members present @CFRSFireSafety @DSFireUpdates @robcude looking forward to our AGM on Wednesday 16th April 2020. All welcome
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Excellent workshop. Well attended but only one serving UK Fire Officer and one former UK Fire Officer (me!) and not many from other countries present. Researchers and firefighters really need to talk to each other more!
This is a big issue in many countries and growing in others
Dr. Ragni Fjellgaard Mikalsen@Ragniragniragni
Workshop ‘Large Outdoor Fires & the Built Environment’ by @IAFSS at the @Interflamconf 2019 today. Learning about urban fires, wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, wildland fires, and informal settlement fires from leaders in the community🔥👍
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Well said, and many congratulations to Katie and her team.
Tamy Emma Pepin@TamyEmmaPepin
Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press. Amazing work. And here’s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) 💥🔥☄️
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Yes you are ... both right and biased!! (and I mean that in a good way)
Fire Engineering is DEFINITELY where it's at
Lynsey Seal@lynsey_seal
I’m possibly biased but fire engineering is where it’s at 👍
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If we do not properly (shouty PROPERLY!) understand how fires start, spread, how people and buildings behave, and how the environment is affected then we have no chance of selecting effective actions.
That means quality investigation and research, and a way of sharing findings
Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥@GuillermoRein
“Fundamental fire science is an area crying out for better research” i stand by this words every single time someone dies in a fire
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A firefighter death affects firefighters all over the world. Thoughts with their families and friends. Respect and thanks to our firefighting colleagues everywhere
Lynsey Seal@lynsey_seal
Thoughts are with our colleagues in Paris
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Thanks Claire. People, please follow her link to Wiki's Swiss cheese.
Very common in accident investigation, I particularly like the diagram they use because it looks less like cheese than holes drilled in metal ... which means the faults are due to design and/or implementation
Dr Claire M Benson 🔥@PyroClaire
This is a huge number of, possibly sub-standard, fire doors. A system is only as good as it's parts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_che…
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I occasionally worry that I am being distracted by Twitter ... then something like this comes along. Fabulous addition to my library.
Thank You Lynsey and Ben
Thank You Barbara and Arup
But above all Thank You Margaret Law #Legend #inspiration #FireSafety #womeninscience
Lynsey Seal@lynsey_seal
As I’ve probably mentioned before Margaret Law’s collection of papers is the only fire text which has made it into my home library (rest kept at work). Wonder what insights she might’ve had about the fire industry today?
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