Ford recalled 527,000 SUVs today in response to reports of engine fires. The recall affects the Escape sports utility vehicle in the model years 2001 to 2004. A Ford representative said the engine fires were linked to a flaw in the anti-lock braking system. There have been no reported accidents...
Australian Reconstruction Task Force RTF soldiers in southern Afghanistan have fought off a number of Taliban attacks on a new construction project over the last few days of February, 2008. The attacks occurred approximately 15km from Tarin Kowt, where RTF engineers are helping to construct a patrol base...
The siren sounds and a fire engine speedspast, bringing with it endless questions from young children -- "Where arethey going?"; "Why do they wear all that gear?"; and "Do they live at thefire station?" In the new DVD from Why Guy Productions, the Why Guy toursa fire station...
PASADENA, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it received a contract from the Medical Research Council to serve as Client Technical Advisor for its new Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Officials did not disclose the contract value. The 30,000-square-meter,...
WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- Fuel Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTEK), a world leader in advanced engineering solutions for the optimization of combustion systems in utility and industrial applications, today announced that it has signed an extension to the exclusive teaming agreement with ITOCHU Hong Kong Ltd., a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation. The...
The Colombian Government, with assistance from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, is probing the fatal July 7 crash of a Boeing 747- 209BSF freighter. At about 2:52 a.m. EDT on July 7, the cargo aircraft (N714CK), operated by Kalitta Airlines as a wet lease to...
The National Transportation Safety Board NTSB has found no evidence that the June 28 ABX Air freighter fire at San Francisco International was intentionally set. The fire burned a hole through the top of the fuselage of the fully loaded Airborne Express Boeing 767 cargo...
Teens playing with fireworks torched part of a military surplus warehouse in Ogden, authorities said. The blaze was sparked Wednesday night by two 15-year-old boys playing with fireworks, Ogden police said. Firefighters said the boys tried to put out the fire, but it quickly spread in brush...
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (SugarLand, Texas) -- Three major subsidiaries of Dongfang Electric CompanyLimited (SSE:600875) (Deyang, Sichuan), the flagship company of DongfangElectric Corporation (Chengdu, Sichuan), have signed major equipment-supplycontracts for two coal-fired power plants in India. The subsidiaries,Dongfang Boilers Group Company Limited DBC Deyang, Dongfang SteamTurbine Works Deyang and...
WASHINGTON AFP — Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station spent six hours in space Wednesday to retrieve an explosive bolt believed the cause of the Soyuz spacecraft's dangerously high-speed descent and landing on two recent missions, NASA said. While US flight engineer Greg Chamitoff monitored the...
Chubb Insurance Encourages All Eligible Policyholders to Sign Up for Free Program Now WARREN, N.J., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has saved customers' homes in Northern California and Montana as a result of dispatching its Wildfire Defense Service to dozens of residences...
LAS VEGAS -- Helix Electric, one of the largest open shop electrical contractors in the nation, has announced that it has completed the electrical subcontracting work the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Greenspun College of Urban Affairs at 4505 Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas. The Greenspun Family Foundation donated $37...
A man aged 33 has been charged with the murder of two French students in a south-east London bedsit. Nigel Edward Farmer, of no fixed address, is accused of killing Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23. The two bio-engineering students were tied up and stabbed up...
Baltimore-based power generation company Curtis Engine & Equipment Inc. and Worcester County have teamed up to prove the age- old idiom that one man's trash is another man's treasure by opening the Eastern Shore's first methane power plant -- a structure that converts landfill gases into viable electricity. ...
Multi-Year, $6.5 Million Program Aims to Better Define Arc Flash Hazards and Protect Workers PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Cooper Bussmann, Inc. has contributed US$500,000 to the Arc Flash Collaborative Research Project organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE and the National Fire Protection Association NFPA. The...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A cargo aircraft crashed on Monday (7 July) shortly after takeoff from El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia. The Boeing 747-200 freighter was being operated by Kalitta Airlines for another carrier, Centurion Air Cargo. All eight crew...
Police released an e-fit image last night of a man they are hunting in connection with the brutal murder of two French students in a south-east London bedsit. The black and white image is a computer-generated impression of a white male seen running from the scene eight...
MIAMI AFP — A US cargo plane taking flowers from Bogota to Miami crashed into a house shortly after take off on Monday, killing three people, officials said. The Boeing 747, owned by Michigan-based company Kalitta Air, fell on the rural home 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of...
MOORESTOWN, N.J., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin's Aegis Fire Control System successfully launched a Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) and guided it to a successful intercept of an airborne drone target during a U.S. Navy test at the White Sands Missile Range WSMR in New Mexico in late June....
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-7 July 2008-Simtronics ASA wins new water mist technology orderC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Norwegian fire and gas safety systems maker Simtronics ASA (OSE: SIMTRO) said on Monday (7 July) that its subsidiary Water Mist Engineering AS has received a NOK3m order for water mist technology...
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