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• Kevlar
  ...gency Service's protection gear if it involves high heat (e.g., tackling a fire), and Kevlar body armor such as vests for police officers, security, and [[ ...prevent punctures, and due to its excellent heat resistance, is used for [[fire poi]] wicks. In Table tennis, plies of Kevlar are added to custom ply blade
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• Polyphenyl ether
  ...have the highest volatilities. The opposite is true for flash points and fire points. Spontaneous ignition temperatures of polyphenyl ethers lie between ...This is reflected by increased evaporation loss, lowering of the flash and fire points and increased viscosity. Other chemical reactions caused by radiati
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• Lubricant
  *Stop the risk of smoke and fire of objects ...t i.e. high flow rate. If the system is shut down suddenly (pulling into a service area after a high speed drive and stopping the engine) the oil that is in t
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• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  ...[[Jōji|Jōji era]] (1366), 43rd year of the sexaganary cycle (year of the fire horse), Senjuin Nagayoshi|貞治五年丙午千手院長吉|jōjigonen hino | Presented to {{nihongo|Tadatsugu|忠次}} by [[Oda Nobunaga]] for good service in the [[Battle of Nagashino]]; curvature: {{convert|2.9|cm|abbr=on}}
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• Glazed architectural terra-cotta
  ...d production in 1966. From its fortuitous founding in time to rebuild the fire-ravished city of Chicago until its closing, it was the major producer of ar ...tion of Historic Glazed Architectural Terra-Cotta], from a [[National Park Service]] website
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• Firestop
  ...[fire test]] in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This was an [[R & D]] test leading to a [[fire-resistance rating]] of three hours.]] ...ce rating|fire-resistance rated]] wall and/or floor assemblies, based on [[fire test]]ing and [[certification listing]]s.
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• Plaster
  ...t in reducing or eliminating structural damage or destruction provided the fire is promptly extinguished. ===In fire protection===
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• Architectural metals
  The initial cost of copper was traditionally high, but its length of service more than compensated for the price. Copper could also be shaped to the ben ...teel. Although iron and steel are not combustible, they lose strength in a fire if they are not protected from the heat. Almost all structural steel has to
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• Cemesto
  ...turdy, light-weight, [[waterproof]] and [[List of fire-retardant materials|fire-resistant]] composite [[building material]] made from a core of [[sugar can ...line station]]s and [[factories]].<ref name=Celotex/> The [[National Park Service]] used the building material widely in its [[Mission 66]] building program
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• Roman concrete
  Rebuilding Rome after the [[Great Fire of Rome|fire in 64 AD]], which destroyed large portions of the city, the new building co ...ste Isolation, Distribution Category UC-70, National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1982.)</ref>
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• Floor
  ...e used to [[ornament (architecture)|ornament]] a floor or perform a useful service. Examples include [[Floor medallions]] which provide a decorative centerpie *[[Compartmentalization (fire protection)|Fire protection]]
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• Adobe
  ...5 to 40 percent clay will yield strong bricks. The New Mexico US Extension Service recommends a mix of not more than 1/3 clay, not less than 1/2 sand, and nev Adobe roofs can be inherently fire-proof, an attribute well received when the fireplace is kept lit during the
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• Thuja plicata
  ...rthern [[Idaho]] and westernmost [[Montana]].<ref name="Silvics">US Forest Service, Silvics Manual: [http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/Volume_1/thuj ...usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=THPL ''Thuja plicata'']</ref><ref name="FEIS">Fire Effects Information System [http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/
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• Masonry
  *Masonry is very heat resistant and thus provides good fire protection. ...ere it provides a well-drained support for the log (this will increase its service life).]]
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• Drywall
  ...ession and all by hand (see [[lath and plaster]]).<ref name="National Park Service: Preservation Brief 21: Repairing Historic Flat Plaster--Walls and Ceilings ...ate]] as a retarder, various additives that may increase [[mildew]] and/or fire resistance (fiberglass or [[vermiculite]]), [[wax]] emulsion or [[silanes]]
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• Permeable paving
  ...dous materials generators (if containers are exposed to rainfall), vehicle service and maintenance areas, and vehicle and equipment washing and steam cleaning ...oducts specifically for industrial applications. Working examples exist at fire halls, busy retail complex parking lots, and on public and private roads, i
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• Concrete
  ...ommodity summary - cement - 2007 | publisher=US [[United States Geographic Service]]|date=2007-06-01|url=http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/ceme ...ucts of the steel [[rebar|reinforcement bar]]s, freezing of trapped water, fire or radiant heat, aggregate expansion, sea water effects, bacterial corrosio
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• Iron
  ...type of [[stainless steel]] used for making cutlery, and hospital and food-service equipment.<ref name="Metallo"/> | width="80pt"|Fire diamond for powdered iron metal
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• Wood
  ...ces thousands, of years old. Every broken limb or root, or deep wound from fire, insects, or falling timber, may afford an entrance for decay, which, once ...important. The results of a series of tests on hickory by the U.S. Forest Service show that:
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• Confined space
  ...]s, including risks of [[toxic]] or [[asphyxiant]] [[gas]] accumulation, [[fire]]s, falls, [[flood]]ing, and entrapment may be classified as permit-require ...asphyxiation, inhalation of toxic gases, fumes or vapours, engulfment and fire and explosions.
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• Chemical accident
  ...n the [[UK]], [[Brandweerinformatiecentrum voor gevaarlijke stoffen]]/Fire service information centre for dangerous goods in [[Belgium]]. *[http://www.big.be Brandweerinformatiecentrum voor gevaarlijke stoffen/Fire services information centre for dangerous goods]
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• Dry cleaning
  ...is maid spilled [[kerosene]] (paraffin) on it. He subsequently developed a service cleaning people's clothes in this manner, which became known as "nettoyage ...where the customer could collect them. This was due mainly to the risk of fire or dangerous fumes created by the cleaning process.
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• Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program
  The '''Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program''' (FFFIPP) is admini .../www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/implweb.html "Traumatic Occupational Injuries,"] ''Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program'', Accessed July 15,
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• American Society of Safety Engineers
  ...brate its 100th anniversary in 2011 and commemorate 100 years of dedicated service to workplace safety and health at events across the nation during this mile ...include academics, construction, consultants, engineering, environmental, fire protection, healthcare, industrial hygiene, international, management, manu
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• Factories Act 1961
  ...1972]]<ref>S.3</ref> and gives powers to the [[Employment Medical Advisory Service]] to order medical examination and supervision of employees. ...nded to require fire certificates for a wide class of works presmises.<ref>Fire Precautions (Factories, Offices, Shops and Railway Premises) Regulations 19
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• Flame arrester
  * to stop the spread of an open fire * to confine fire within an enclosed, controlled, or regulated location
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• National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System
  | Non-profit_name = National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System | Non-profit_logo = <br /><small>Logo of the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System</small>
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• National Fire Protection Association
  ...arged with creating and maintaining minimum standards and requirements for fire prevention and suppression activities, training, and equipment, as well as ...ith the stated purpose of standardizing the new and burgeoning market of [[fire sprinkler]] systems. The scope of the NFPA's influence grew from sprinklers
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• Workplace stress
  .... American workers under pressure technical report. St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company.</ref> Many studies suggest that psychologica High levels of stress are associated with substantial increases in health service utilization.<ref name=NIOSH_Stressatwork/> Workers who report experiencing
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• Asbestos
  ...lectrical and chemical damage. When asbestos is used for its resistance to fire or heat, the fibers are often mixed with [[cement]] or woven into fabric or ...ade containing chrysotile including brake linings, cloth behind fuses (for fire protection), pipe insulation, floor tiles, and rope seals for boilers.{{Cit
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• Institute of Occupational Medicine
  ...e [[cost-effectiveness]] of production<ref>Simpson G. (1984) An ergonomics service to industry: The IOM Ergonomics Branch. Ergonomics; 175: 1-6.</ref>. One of ...se of breathing apparatus, standards currently used by the UK Mines Rescue service.
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• Air safety
  ...before certification authorities will permit these aircraft in commercial service. ===Fire===
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...ng Environments (Mining, Industrial, Manufacturing, transport and storage, service industries and offices); ...d identification, risk assessment and risk communication, data management, fire evacuation and other emergency responses);
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• SENSOR-Pesticides
  ...name=retail/> The ubiquity of pesticides puts emergency responders such as fire-fighters and police officers at risk, because they are often the first resp ...e Action Network North America|newspaper= Pesticide Action Network Updates Service|date= 2005-09-15|url= http://www.panna.org/legacy/panups/panup_20050915.dv.
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• Benzene
  ...go incomplete [[combustion]]. It is produced in [[volcano]]es and [[forest fire]]s, and is also a component of [[cigarette]] smoke. Benzene is a principal ...y contain low levels of benzene from tobacco smoke, wood smoke, automobile service stations, the transfer of gasoline, exhaust from motor vehicles, and indust
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• Emergency management
  ...[[civil defense]] or within the conventional structure of the [[emergency service]]s. However, emergency management actually starts at the lowest level and o ...cuation of flood victims to be performed by mutual aide agreements between fire departments and rescue squads, should be identified early in planning stage
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• Occupational safety and health
  ...of certified experts to cover the risks in the organisations which use the service: ...s risk assessment. Recent major changes to the laws governing asbestos and fire safety management embrace the concept of risk assessment.
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• Hexavalent chromium
  ...taken by the air district from June to August at the elementary school and fire department in Davenport registered measurements of hexavalent chromium that ...n February 2008. The cause was lung disease at age 42. His death was ruled service-related. His brother believes it was hexavalent chromium.<ref>[http://news.
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• Wildfire
  {{Redirect|Crown Fire|the 2010 wildfire in Southern California|2010 California wildfires}} [[Image:Wildfire in California.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|alt=A daytime fire engulfing large trees|A wildfire in California, USA on 5 September 2008]]
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• Health and Safety Executive
  ...he [[explosion]] and [[fire]] at [[2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire|Buncefield]] in 2005. Though it formerly reported to the [[Health and Safet ...nisations, and other persons are provided with an information and advisory service and are kept informed of, and adequately advised on such matters.
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• Wildfire suppression
  ...ng [[aircraft]], these wildfire-trained crews suppress flames, construct [[fire break|firelines]], and extinguish flames and areas of heat to protect resou ...en exchanged for those who encourage wildland fire use, or the allowing of fire to act as a tool, such as the case with [[controlled burns]].
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• Fire Safety Journal
  | title = Fire Safety Journal | abbreviation = Fire Saf. J.
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• Lead
  | width="80pt"|Fire diamond for lead granules ...Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
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• Synthetic cannabis
  ...trade names AM-HI-CO, Dream, Spice (Gold, Diamond), Zoom, Ex-ses, Yucatán Fire and others have been declared to contain ''Salvia divinorum'', Hawaiian Woo ...ssession and use of Spice, or any other mood-altering substance, among its service members.<ref name="usafban">{{Cite web|url=http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp
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• Dunmurry train explosion
  ...A) incendiary bomb on board a [[Ballymena]] to [[Belfast]] passenger train service on 17 January 1980. The train was a [[Northern Ireland Railways]] afternoon service carrying passengers between [[Ballymena railway station]] and [[Belfast Cen
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• Oktoberfest
  ...n Germany|police]], fire department and other municipal authorities in the service center at the ''Behördenhof'' (authorities' court), a large building speci ...entrance on September 26, 1980 at 22:19. The bomb consisted of an empty [[fire extinguisher]] filled with 1.39 kilograms of [[trinitrotoluene|TNT]] and mo
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• Salt Lake City Public Library hostage incident
  ...tration of a [[Tibet]]an [[sand painting]] ceremony, Draper leapt onto the service desk in the Fiction section brandishing a [[M1911]] pistol and claiming to ...and evacuating the five-story building in under five minutes, by using the fire alarm. Several staff stayed onsite to provide police with floor plans and o
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• Brink's robbery (1981)
  ...]. Paige was hit multiple times and killed instantly. Trombino was able to fire a single shot from his handgun, but was soon struck in the shoulder and arm ...Keenan was shot in the leg, but managed to duck behind a tree and return fire.
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• Black Tom explosion
  ...Others attempted to fight the fires and eventually called the Jersey City Fire Department. ...It soon became clear that the fires of the smudge pots had not caused the fire, and that the blast had not been an accident. It was traced to a [[Slovaks|
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• Beltway sniper attacks
  ...anded in the custody of what was then the [[Immigration and Naturalization Service]], which subsequently deported them. ...l Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], the [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]], the [[Virginia Department of Transportation]] and police departments in
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• Anniston, Alabama
  ...denied [[African Americans]] their [[civil rights]]. One of the buses was fire-bombed outside of Anniston on [[Mother's Day]], Sunday, May 14, 1961. As th ...&nbsp;m)</span> wide. Anniston's nearest major airport with full passenger service is [[Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport]].
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• John F. Kennedy assassination
  ...he Texas School Book Depository. Circle "A" indicates where he saw a man fire a rifle at the motorcade ...ey heard what they first thought to be a firecracker or the exhaust [[back-fire|backfire]] of a vehicle just after the president started waving.<ref>Althou
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• Wall Street bombing
  ...[[Washington Post]]'' called the bombing an "act of war."<ref>History News Service: [http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2001/091701a.html Beverly Gage, "The F ...ce the [[Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire|1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire]].]]
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• Counter-terrorism
  Police, fire, and emergency medical response organizations have obvious roles. Local [[f [[Fire department]]s, perhaps supplemented by public works agencies, utility provi
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• Insurgency
  In a Western context, Rosenau cites a British [[Secret Intelligence Service]] definition as "a generalized intention to ('''emphasis added''') “overt ...uman rights, civil institutions and individual protections, public safety (fire, ambulance, sanitation, civil defense) and population security.
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• History of terrorism
  ...greatest intensity between 1938 and 1943, the [[Imperial Japanese Army Air Service|Japanese]] used [[incendiary bombs]] against Chinese cities such as [[Shang ...its [[Esenboga airport attack]], on 7 August 1982, two ASALA rebels opened fire on civilians in a waiting room at the [[Esenboga International Airport]] in
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• Terrorism
  ...POLITICS: U.N. Member States Struggle to Define Terrorism], [[Inter Press Service]], 25 July 2005.</ref> Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those ...to "elevate her grievances beyond the norms of civilized society" through fire and destruction, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney said. The case _ which wa
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• Feroz Abbasi
  ...He was handed over to US forces, who referred to him as "the [[Special Air Service|SAS]] guy" in reference to his extensive training<ref name="Begg">Begg, Moa ...forced there into and it will be said to them, Take ye the penalty of the fire which ye will want to reject as false. And indeed we will make them taste o
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• Abu Sayyaf
  ...bu Sayyaf gunmen knocked on door in a farm in Patikul, Mindanao and opened fire after asking residents if they were Christians or from another religion. Si .../international/abu_sayyaf.html Profile: Abu Sayyaf], [[Public Broadcasting Service]]
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• Black site
  ...-01.htm US Groups Hail Censure of Washington's "Terror War], [[Inter Press Service]] on May 20, 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/A ...[Richard Fides]] said the country had no black sites, but its intelligence service spokesman [[Vladimir Simko]] said he would not disclose any information abo
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• Jewish Defense League
  ...mbing of an automobile at a Soviet diplomatic residence, the 1985 and 1986 fire and pipe bombings of a rival JDL member's cars, the 1986 firebombing at a h ...as the recipient of a parcel bomb that was detonated by the Toronto Police Service's bomb squad.<ref>Henry Stancu, "Police detonate bomb sent to Zündel's hom
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• Murat Kurnaz
  | title=German Soldiers under fire: New Testimony May Back Kurnaz Torture Claims ==McClatchy News Service interview==
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• Zacarias Moussaoui
  ...ted by [[Harry Samit]] of the [[FBI]] and [[Immigration and Naturalization Service|INS]] agents in [[Minnesota]] and charged with an immigration violation<ref '''4/22/2002:''' Moussaoui tried to fire his court-appointed lawyers. Judge Brinkema took the request under adviseme
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• Anthrax
  ...were formulated by the USPS in conjunction with local responders including fire, police, hospitals and public health. Employees of these facilities have be ...Army]] personnel are routinely vaccinated against anthrax prior to active service in places where biological attacks are considered a threat. The [[anthrax v
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• Butter
  ...nd an offering to the gods&mdash;especially [[Agni]], the [[Hindu]] god of fire&mdash;for more than 3000 years; references to ghee's sacred nature appear n ...from [[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]] Foreign Agricultural Service (1999). [http://www.fas.usda.gov/dlp2/circular/1999/99-07dairy/toc.htm Dair
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• List of vegetable oils
  | author=Economic Research Service ...hting [[dental caries|dental cavities]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Science Service, Inc.|journal=Science News|date=March 23, 1991|url=http://www.highbeam.com/
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• Passive analogue filter development
  ...age filters continued to be designed up to that point and many remained in service into the 21st century.<ref>Irwin W. Sandberg, Ernest S. Kuh, "Sidney Darlin ...WWII by [[Norbert Wiener]] with the specific application to anti-aircraft fire control analogue computers. Rudy Kalman ([[Kalman filter]]) later reformula
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• Crystal radio
  | title = Crystal fire: the invention of the transistor and the birth of the information age ...existing large metal objects, such as [[bedspring]]s,<ref name="Kent" /> [[fire escape]]s, and [[barbed wire]] fences as antennas.<ref name="Binns" /><ref>
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• Blaser R93 Tactical
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