another year, another triangle shirtwaist factory fire anniversary...

never forget by watching the PBS doc on your PBS roku channel tonight.

happy triangle shirtwaist factory fire anniversary!!!

and by happy, i mean sad.

everyone take a moment to reflect while spec-ing your panic hardware today!

the fire in greenpoint

i saw smoke rising over the navy yard when i was leaving work yesterday evening. then kylie sent me this pic of what she thought was a fire at the disaster eggs. turns out it was a recycling facility across the street at 860 humboldt street. the firefighters finally stamped out all the embers this morning.

"that pile of garbage saved her life"

a lady in new york fell three stories from her fire escape while she was trying to escape a fire survived relatively uninjured because she landed in a pile of uncollected trash bags. hahahahahah.

EMERGENCY! kitty kat on fire!

watch this firefighter save a little little kitty kat. meorwwww.

you think youre cold?

at least youre not in chicago (wait, are you in chicago??) where this building froze after the firefighters put out a fire that was inside. brrrrrr

i'm sorry, what?

what exactly is happening down there in australia?

australia is burning up into a crispy crisp.

have you heard? are the koalas' pawz ok?!! i demand a comment from the prahm meeyinistah!!

plain people

during a sunday night moonshiners marathon i was having last night some ads came on for my new favorite show (hopefully). it's called amish mafia. you can read about it here. someone is pissed about it (obvi) here.

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OH SHIT

damn nature, you scary

Brunnhilde's Immolation

THIS JUST IN: thomas wilhelm witnessed a fire on his vacation

from flim thomas wilhelm

thomas heatherwick likes putting things on the ends of long sticks, to great effect

the 2012 London Olympic cauldron is undeniably beautiful. i didn't make the connection until later that the designer, thomas heatherwick, is responsible for some other breathtaking stuff on sticks. check out a slideshow of all the olympic cauldrons beginning with amsterdam in 1928

nerd alert: photography

Famous photographs with the subjects removed.
 Can you name all four?

via animal

holy hell that car was on top of that person UPDATE

story

update: dude survived with burns and broken bones, and filmed a little thank you video to his rescuers. he wasnt wearing a helmet. dummy.

this was at burning man.

i want that. (via)

london burning : timelapse

(via)

what would YOU save?

if your house was burning...

thx erin!

arizona's on fire.

More than 2,500 firefighters were combating the blaze as of Tuesday morning, officials said. Four structures had been lost, but hundreds more were threatened.

“It’s hard to breathe,” said Judy Cline, who runs an antiques shop in Greer and was packing her possessions into her pickup truck Monday as the winds whipped and the smoke rolled in. “It’s like a thick fog. You can’t see anything.” (via)

happy 100th anniversary, triangle shirtwaist factory fire ;(

ever wonder why we have labor rights, emergency exit signs, and my favorite construction industry term, "panic hardware" (push bars) on doors, etc? well, the triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 is why. today marks 100 years since this horrific tragedy, and i've included the segment of ken burns' new york documentary which, incidentally, is required 2Pz viewing. netflix that s up.