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Donald's Fire Safety Hits

2005
Contains two episodes including "Donald's Fire Survival Plan" in which Donald Duck and his nephews learn how to prevent and survive fires at home, discussing the "stop, drop, and roll" strategy, as well as E.D.I.T.H., or exit drills in the home; and "Donald's Fire Drill," a comical quiz show on fire safety knowledge.

Fire in the wind

1995
In 1947 in Maine, a raging fire that threatens their farm and the nearby town makes the members of Meg's extended family see their strained relationships in a new light.

Framed & dangerous

2012
Norah and Darcy have to put their differences aside when Zane Munro ask them for help after he has been accused of burning down the school's new field house.

Wildfires

2007
Illustrations and text introduce wildfires, from how fires start, to what a wildfire is, firefighting, prescribed fires, and more.

Big bangs

looking at explosions and crashes
2010
Examines the tools and techniques used by forensic scientists during criminal investigations that involve explosions or crashes, and including a related case study.

New York burning

liberty. slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan
2005
Presents a history of the 1741 slave rebellion that nearly destroyed New York City, and describes the conviction of over one hundred men and women who were either burned at the stake, hanged, or imprisoned and the social and political climate of the 1730s and 1740s.

Shattered

2002
Meena, babysitting Trace Clayton, the son of her parents' best friends, saves the child from a mysterious fire that breaks out in the living room. The first in a sequence of books that follows the lives of seven friends, united by a past tragedy, over the course of seven weeks in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Al Capone does my homework

2013
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden.

The burning city

2001
Whandall Placehold grows to adulthood in the mean streets of Tep's Town, a city ruled by a voracious god of fire who periodically leads the citizens to set their own town ablaze, but his dreams of escape are hindered by the knowledge that freedom comes only at the hands of the sorcerer who killed his father.

The Great Chicago fire

in eyewitness accounts and 70 contemporary photographs and illustrations
1979
Text, photos, and illustrations depict the happening of the 1871 Chicago fire.

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