Sentences with phrase «on fire protection»

Communities are also rated based on their fire protection status, because fire is one of the top reasons for filing claims after natural disasters.

The great unknown, though, is just how much value each insurance company places on fire protection.

The only way to know if Insurer A will give you a better deal on your fire protection rating than Insurer B is to shop around.

Each fire protection agency (including your local fire department) is reviewed by the Insurance Services Office (ISO) and ranked based on their fire protection services, such as fire equipment, staffing and available water supply.

Not exact matches

The protections are expansive and would, for example, allow a religious organization to fire or discipline individuals based on religious belief, a landlord to refuse to rent to LGBT individuals, and a business to refuse to sell wedding goods to a same sex couple.

Eleven cities, to be exact, across nine states that don't have legal protections against firing an employee based on sexual orientation.

Nor are there «laws on the books» that allow it, as if these states someone wrote in protections for employers to fire gays at will.

But it's also worth considering that an employer who fires an employee simply based on the wrongdoing itself is effectively imposing a penalty — acting like judge, jury, and executioner — without any of the due - process protections that accompany a criminal trial.

Best practices, such as the National Fire Protection Association's Firewise USA program and California's Fire Safe, are a good start but should be expanded, based on research.

Taxes on real estate in Maryland account for about 35 % of city budgets and 30 % of county budgets, funding local services like public education and fire protection.

On the other hand, churches really don't want equal footing, they want totally subsidized municipal services (trash, police, fire protection, civil and national defense) AND they want to dictate to the governments that provide them the terms under which they operate.

Mr Prothero, I would venture to say that you have never been fired upon by an enemy combatant; never been in fear for your life in a foreign land; and obviously never been dependent on the man next to you for the protection he affords.

The Lions Club is hosting its annual Pancake Breakfasts from 7 a.m. to noon on March 4 and 11 at the Union Fire Protection District.

The head - on crash happened shortly after 8 a.m. on Hicks Road about one - quarter mile north of Lake Cook Road, according to a press release from the Long Grove Fire Protection District.

An alarm was called about 1:30 p.m. for a fire in a prairie on 151st Street between Wolf and Will Cook Roads in Orland Park, and the Orland Fire Protection District was helped by five nearby departments before the blaze was put out two hours lafire in a prairie on 151st Street between Wolf and Will Cook Roads in Orland Park, and the Orland Fire Protection District was helped by five nearby departments before the blaze was put out two hours laFire Protection District was helped by five nearby departments before the blaze was put out two hours later.

On the other hand, voters in the East Dundee and Countryside Fire Protection District, and the South Elgin and Countryside Fire Protection District, both approved identical 10 - cent hikes in their corporate tax rates, to 40 cents per $ 100.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced the naming of four Oneida County Assistant Fire Coordinators to help serve as liaisons between the Oneida County Department of Emergency Services and local volunteer fire departments, as well as to work with the volunteers on critical fire protection and fire safety issFire Coordinators to help serve as liaisons between the Oneida County Department of Emergency Services and local volunteer fire departments, as well as to work with the volunteers on critical fire protection and fire safety issfire departments, as well as to work with the volunteers on critical fire protection and fire safety issfire protection and fire safety issfire safety issues.

And yes it does mean looking at tax again but also, a freer labour market, the hiring and firing proposals to make sure that young people aren't turned away from jobs because of the very onerous social employment protection legislation in this country, so we should say to the Liberals on things like that which they are blocking, «Listen we are in a real hole now.

This year, Borough President James Oddo said he worked to restore some brush fire units to FDNY houses in the borough and was working on restarting talks to develop a new Community Wildfire Protection Plan with city and state agencies.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a tentative agreement on Thursday with the New York City firefighters» union for a seven - year labor pact that includes retroactive raises for firefighters, new disability pension protections and increased staffing for 20 of the Fire Department's roughly 200 engine companies by 2019.

The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.

Each taxpayer's portion pays for services, such as roads, police, fire protection, refuse, etc., depending on the town.

Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich has sent complaints to the inspectors general of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency calling on them to investigate New York's permitting process for Competitive Power Ventures» gas - fired power plant project in Orange County.

His reports on defective fire barriers led to congressional hearings and ultimately to a complete overhaul of the agency's fire protection regulations.

In science news around the world, Brazil begins work on a new year - round Antarctic station to replace a facility destroyed by fire 4 years ago, China plans a big boost to its investment in science as part of its latest 5 - year plan, the Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to nix a conditionally approved pesticide after further study, the American Statistical Association weighs in on the proper use of p - values, and more.

At Entergy's Indian Point 2 station on the Hudson River above New York City, inspectors reported that fire fighting equipment is not designed to withstand earthquakes, which could compromise the fire protection system.

It also lends support to the US Environmental Protection Agency, which last week proposed a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from new coal - fired and gas - fired power plants.

In the meantime, the lab has earmarked $ 4 million to help resolve any lingering problems, and in February it launched a new Fire Protection Division «to help prioritize and identify these issues — and get to work on them,» says Los Alamos spokesperson Kevin Roark.

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

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And we rely totally on the active fire protection measures that support our safety management system, e.g. fire detection, fire alarm, fire fighting equipment and fire suppression systems.

It rests on three pillars: simple job security and longevity, really a form of guaranteed continuing employment (often viewed as a fringe benefit that substitutes for higher pay); protection against diverse forms of discrimination, favoritism and capriciousness on the part of employers; and academic freedom, meaning in essence that instructors can almost never be fired on account of what they say or write.

As state investments in higher education have declined on a per - resident basis, spending has grown in other categories, most notably in K — 12 education (from $ 1,378 per resident in 1987 to $ 1,946 in 2015) and public welfare (from $ 645 per resident in 1987 to $ 1,930 in 2015), but also in health and hospitals, police and fire protection, and corrections.

Spending on health and on police and fire protection accounts for between zero and 20 percent of the decline in higher - education funding, depending on whether spending is measured on an overall or per - capita basis.

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Such technical judgments rely on a forensic level of fire behaviour understanding and risk appraisal generally outside the expertise of a risk assessor or contractor installing passive fire protection.

Membership to the Association is subject to strict competency rules, and all members carry Third Party Certification — so you can be assured that those carrying the FIA logo on their websites are fire protection companies that have been certified and will be able to offer their professional services to you.

All this creates a challenge of unknown proportions for the school facility manager who is unlikely to have the expertise to assess passive fire protection and may have only patchy documentation on the safety compliance of the past.

However, the easiest and simplest way to check if a fire protection company has been certified is just to look for the Fire Industry Association logo on the company websfire protection company has been certified is just to look for the Fire Industry Association logo on the company websFire Industry Association logo on the company website.

The suit, modeled on the successful Vergara v. California lawsuit in California, argues that those protections are depriving pupils of their constitutional right in New York to a «sound basic education» because they make it nearly impossible to fire an ineffective or incompetent teacher.

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In 2012, education law professors Preston Green and Joseph Oluwole, and education finance professor Bruce Baker, published an article outlining specific legal and policy problems with VAM and teacher evaluations, focusing on due process challenges, equal protection challenges, and disparate impact firings.

And I think if we end up in a place... where we have no protection against firing for reasons other than competence, teaching — which is already a fairly unattractive occupation because of all the teacher - bashing that's going on — will become an even more unattractive occupation.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Marshall Tuck this week launched a petition calling on his opponent, incumbent Superintendent Tom Torlakson, not to appeal a lawsuit ruling that struck down statutes giving California teachers firing protections and rights to tenure and seniority.

The Fire pack includes factory fitted reinforced front winch bar and recovery points (2) rated to 50 kn, 100 amp power supply to the rear of the vehicle, fire protected fuel, electrical and brake lines and a tow bar and rear recovery points as well as enhanced rear body mounts to handle the continuous high weight, extreme operating environment and strength for the industry leading Falling Object Protection System (FOPS) that is installed on the vehicFire pack includes factory fitted reinforced front winch bar and recovery points (2) rated to 50 kn, 100 amp power supply to the rear of the vehicle, fire protected fuel, electrical and brake lines and a tow bar and rear recovery points as well as enhanced rear body mounts to handle the continuous high weight, extreme operating environment and strength for the industry leading Falling Object Protection System (FOPS) that is installed on the vehicfire protected fuel, electrical and brake lines and a tow bar and rear recovery points as well as enhanced rear body mounts to handle the continuous high weight, extreme operating environment and strength for the industry leading Falling Object Protection System (FOPS) that is installed on the vehicles.

Any design was engineered to the very high B6 or VR6 world standard (ballistic protection when fired on by NATO 7.62 rifle or Kalashnikov AK47; blast protection from DM51 hand grenades, even if two are detonating simultaneously above the roof, and the same grenades detonating 150 mm below the floor).

There are Vehicle Service Agreements available for purchase at any participating Lexus dealership, to cover nearly every component group in your Lexus after the factory warranty expires, and Guaranteed Auto Protection (GAP) that can help ease the financial burden of a deficiency balance on your finance contract in the event of a total loss of your Lexus due to theft, fire or accident.

Along with some cosmetic changes to match the look and feel of the Kindle Fire's UI, a new settings menu lets you turn on pin protection for in - app purchasing — which is enabled by default — and gently nudges you to spend by displaying your unused gift card balance.

On the very same day Amazon unveiled the first generation Kindle Fire in 2011, the company registered well over 500 domain names related to the Kindle Fire and Silk browser products, through the internet brand protection company MarkMonitor.

On the very same day Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire, the company registered well over 500 domain names related to the Kindle Fire and Silk browser products, through the brand protection company MarkMonitor.