The 2018 California wildfires killed more people and did more damage than any other year on record. More than 7,500 wildfires burned an area of . That was the largest number of acres burned in a recorded fire season, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) and National Interagency Fire Center, as of November 11, 2018.
The fires caused more than US$2.975 billion in damage. That included $1.366 billion in wildfire suppression costs. Through the end of August 2018, Cal Fire alone spent over $432 million on operations.
The Mendocino Complex Fire was the biggest wildfire in California history. This fire caused over $257 million in damage. At least one firefighter was killed.
The Camp Fire did more damage than any other in California history. The fire alone destroyed or damaged more than 17,000 homes and businesses. It also killed 84 people.
More than 100 people were killed by the wildfires in California in 2018. The wildfires caused billions of dollars in damage.
Firefighting
Firefighting is the act of trying to prevent the spread of and put out unwanted fires. The fires can be in buildings, vehicles, woodlands, and other places. A firefighter puts out fires to protect property, people and the environment.
Firefighters usually go through a lot of technical training. This includes fighting fires in buildings, cars and the woods.
One of the major hazards with firefighting is the poisonous environment made by things burning. Four major risks are smoke, oxygen deficiency, high temperatures and poisons in the air. To protect themselves from smoke, firefighters will wear a device called a breathing apparatus.
One way to put out fires is to spray them with water. The water does two things: it vaporizes when it comes in contact with fire. The water vapor leaves the fire with less oxygen, which it needs to keep burning. The other thing water does is make things cooler. That can keep the fire from burning because things will not burn if they are not hot enough.
Trevor Devall
Trevor Jay Devall (born November 10, 1972) is a Canadian actor, voice artist, and comedian, known as the voice of Iron Will and additional voices in "". He also voiced Shaw in "", filling in for Gary Sinise.
Trevor was born Trevor Jay Devall in Edmonton, Alberta on November 10, 1972. He is the youngest of five siblings. He was into theatre and did tap, jazz and Polynesian dance as a child. He attended the University of Alberta for drama and directed stage productions, as well as student movies.
Trevor moved to Vancouver in 1998 to pursue a movie directing career. While working for a talent agency, he made a demo tape for them and began landing work as a voice actor.
In March 2015, it was announced Devall would be the voice of Rocket Raccoon in Marvel's animated "Guardians of the Galaxy".
Since 2007, Devall produced his own podcast, "Voiceprint with Trevor Devall & Guests", where he interviewed fellow Vancouver-based voice actors and answered questions from fans. Each episode featured a different voice actor as the episode guest, though some episodes featured other people in the voice-acting business that may not actually be voice actors themselves; or behind-the-scenes looks at the life of a voice actor. Topics usually included how the guest made it into the voice-acting business, what it is like working in the industry, and the general lifestyle of a voice actor. The series concluded its first season after 36 episodes in December 2013. The second season was announced in the final episode of season 1, as Trevor moves to Los Angeles, California to continue his career and the show.
William Wilson
William Wilson, or variants, may mean:
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is a 2000 American science-fiction romantic-comedy movie directed by Peter Segal. It is a sequel to the 1996 movie "The Nutty Professor".
Eco-socialism
Eco-socialism is an ideology that mixes socialism with green politics, environmentalism, ecology, and anti-globalisation. Eco-socialists believe that capitalism (along with imperialism and globalisation) causes war, poverty, and the destruction of the environment.
Eco-socialists want community ownership of the means of production, and to restore the environment.
Pat Riley
Patrick James "Pat" Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American basketball coach and player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995 and head coach on two separate tenures (1995 through 2003, and 2005 through 2008).
When he was a basketball player, he played for the San Diego Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns.
Riley was born in Rome, New York, but raised in Schenectady, New York. He studied at the University of Kentucky.
Xuanwu District
Xuanwu District is a district of Nanjing, China. About 625,000 people live there.
Its name comes from Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of the old city walls.
Xuanwu District is in central Nanjing. When Nanjing was the capital city of China in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Xuanwu District was the place with China's capitol and its presidential palace. It is still the home of Nanjing's city government.
As the central area of Nanjing, Xuanwu is home to many important places. Some of the most important are Xuanwu Lake, the old presidential palace and city wall, Sun Yat-sen's Tomb and the Ming Tombs, and Purple Mountain.
Its many schools include Southwest University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Forestry University, the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Neo-Luddism
Neo-Luddism or new Luddism is a movement of people who are against modern technology. The word Luddite can be an offensive term to describe someone who is afraid of technology.
The movement is named after the English Luddites, who were active between 1811 and 1816. The Luddites were textile workers. They were against the new textile machinery. They believed that the machines would replace the workers over time. In response, the Luddites destroyed many of the textile machines.
Neo-Luddites are concerned about the effect technology has on the environment, people, and/or communities.
The neo-Luddite movement has connections with the anti-globalisation movement, anarcho-primitivism, and radical environmentalism.
Luddite
The Luddites were an early 19th century radical group which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting against the use of machinery in a "fraudulent and deceitful manner" to get around standard labour practices. They were English textile workers who took an oath to resist machinery in the textile industry.
Luddites feared that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste as machines would replace their role in the industry. They were largely correct but, on the other hand, the textile industry grew to be a major exporter of cloth.
It is not quite right that Luddites protested against the machinery itself in an attempt to halt progress. However, over time, the term has come to mean one opposed to industrialisation, automation, or new technologies in general.
The Luddite movement began in Nottingham and ended in a region-wide rebellion that lasted from 1811 to 1816. Mill and factory owners took to shooting protesters. Eventually the movement was suppressed with military force.
Sakha Republic
The Republic of Sakha also known as Yakutia is one of 85 federal subjects of Russia. It is in the Siberia area of Russia. It is grouped and governed as part of the Far Eastern District. The Far Eastern District contains ten other federal subjects too. Sakha is the largest federal subject of Russia. It stretches across three time zones between UTC+9 and UTC+11. The name Yakutia is also used to refer to the same area. The Yakut people speak a Turkic language.