Professors call laptops a class distraction Nov 13, 2009
Latecomers, dozers and loud-whispers have always plagued college classrooms. But the ability to access Facebook, e-mail, games, and the Internet on a BlackBerry, laptop, or iPhone is a new frontier of distraction - and some professors are trying to do something about it. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Crews Get Control Of Loma Fire Oct 27, 2009
Evacuations Lifted Monday. POSTED: 8:15 am PDT October 26, 2009UPDATED: 5:18 pm PDT October 26, 2009. (KSBW 8, CA)
Loma Fire Rages On In Santa Cruz Mountains Oct 26, 2009
Homes Evacuated As Loma Fire Rages On - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast. Homes have been evacuated after a wildfire broke out early Sunday in the Santa Cruz Mountains. (KSBW 8, CA)
Heat, Red Flag warning continue through today Sep 22, 2009
According to Cal Fire, more than 140 personnel with two dozers and five water tenders were battling the blaze. As of mid-afternoon, it was 0 percent contained but a resident of the area reported at 2:30 p.m. Monday that fire fighters seemed to have gained control. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Oak Glen Fire nearing full containment Sep 4, 2009
Firefighters, including some from Big Bear City Fire Department, are on the line creating containment lines around the fire with the assistance of hand crews and bulldozers ... There are 41 engines on the fire with more ordered, five water tenders, 18 hand crews (more on order), four dozers, seven helicopters, six airtankers and Martin Mars and DC-10. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
Raging Fire Threatens Mount Wilson Sep 3, 2009
Includes late updates. While nothing is ever guaranteed in fires like this. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Fire grows to 1,260 acres Sep 1, 2009
So far, resources include 14 smoke jumpers, two hotshot crews, three engines, three single-engine air tankers, one helicopter and two dozers. "One hundred percent of our effort has been on protecting the private land," Schuster said. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
Fires Rage Near Wofford Heights Sep 1, 2009
Kern County Fire Department has dispatched 7 Engines, 11 Patrols, 3 Hand crews, 2 Dozers and a Water Tender to this fire in addition to several management resources totaling approximately 100 personnel. Also on scene are resources from US Forest Service and B.L.M. At this time there is air support from 1 Air Tanker and Helicopter 408, both are involved with water drops. (KERO 23, CA)
Oak Glen evacuated due to fire Sep 1, 2009
There are 41 engines on the fire with more ordered, five water tenders, 18 hand crews (more on order), four dozers, seven helicopters, six airtankers and Martin Mars and DC-10. The above story is an update to a previous story. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
Gloria Fire Fully Contained Sep 1, 2009
Fire Charred 6,437 Acres. POSTED: 8:41 am PDT August 31, 2009UPDATED: 8:58 am PDT August 31, 2009. (KSBW 8, CA)
Gloria Fire Continues To Grow Aug 29, 2009
The Gloria Fire continued to grow Friday evening, charring more than 6,000 acres near the community of Soledad. Fire Has Charred Over 6,000 Acres. (KSBW 8, CA)
Full Containment Of Lockheed Fire Pushed Back Aug 21, 2009
Lockheed Fire Expected To Be Contained Saturday. POSTED: 10:12 am PDT August 20, 2009UPDATED: 10:48 am PDT August 20, 2009. (KSBW 8, CA)
Fire Crews Make Progress Against Wildfires Aug 20, 2009
California's Three Major Wildfires 50% Contained. POSTED: 10:10 am PDT August 19, 2009UPDATED: 10:37 am PDT August 19, 2009. (KSBW 8, CA)
Lockheed Fire 80 Percent Contained Aug 18, 2009
Fires Burn Across California. POSTED: 9:22 am PDT August 16, 2009UPDATED: 11:50 pm PDT August 17, 2009. (KSBW 8, CA)
Lockheed Fire Consumes 5,036 Acres Aug 15, 2009
Firefighters Continue Battle Against Lockheed Fire - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast. The Lockheed Fire had consumed 5,036 acres of remote wilderness in the Santa Cruz Mountains and was 15 percent contained as of Friday evening. (KSBW 8, CA)
Thousands Forced From Homes By Coast Fire Aug 14, 2009
Cal Fire has ordered additional engines, dozers, crews and aircraft to assist in suppressing the blaze. Ash was falling in the areas of Boulder Creek, Davenport and Monterey. (KCRA 3, CA)
Knight Fire burns up nearly $12 million Aug 12, 2009
As of Aug. 3, there were 1,352 personnel working the fire, Santiago said, including 30 Type I hand crews, six Type II hand crews, nine helicopters, three air tankers, 62 engines, 10 dozers, 24 water tenders and 172 in management. However, the progress of the containment allowed many those firefighters to either be sent out to other fires or return to their home units to respond to any new incidents, according Kaunert's release. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
La Brea fire explodes to 10,000 acres Aug 10, 2009
Engines, hand crews and dozers will continue attempts to contain the blaze on the south side of the Sierra Madre ridge line today, Pasinato said. Total personnel assigned to the fire was estimated at 644 as of 7 p.m. Sunday. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Knight Fire continues to burn Aug 1, 2009
The cause of the fire, which started at 3:35 p.m. Sunday, is still under investigation, according to Debbie Santiago, public information officer for the South Central Sierra Interagency Incident Management Team. The fire has cost 1,342,400, Santiago said Thursday, and is burning through heavy timber and brush with extreme potential. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Knight fire spreads to more than 600 acres Jul 29, 2009
Most of this river canyon county is very steep and completely inaccessible for dozers and fire engines ... Firefighting personal and equipment include 16 Type 1 (20 person hand crews), 27 fire engines (staffed with five firefighters), two water tenders, seven dozers, six fixed-wing air tankers, four heavy air tankers (Forest Service contract out of Stockton), two Cal Fire medium air tankers (out of the Columbia Air Attack Base), four heavy helitankers (heavy lift helicopters outfitted to carry a... (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Knight fire keeps burning in remote Tuolumne County Jul 28, 2009
Well be bringing in several more dozers, Snyder said. Lots of equipment. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Dogs (and owners) strut their stuff in annual parade Jul 18, 2009
Divas and dozers, ballerinas and beach bums, those were a few of costumes worn by canines during Tuesday's 4th annual Dogs on Parade. Beginning at 6:45 p.m. proud owners began gathering in the Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza for the march through downtown, Tuesday Market and back. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Kenai fire flares, Interior blazes joined into 'Railroad Complex' Jul 13, 2009
More than 400 firefighters and support personnel are working on the effort, which includes 10 fire engines, three bull dozers, seven helicopters, five Hotshot crews and 10 regular crews. No evacuations have been ordered. (Anchorage Daily News)
210 years to grow Jul 5, 2009
They sit inside cages in their massive dozers, safe from bits of falling forest ... He and Rodwell cut the 10-metre piece, and the two dozers winch and push the weighty log up the steep hill. (The Age, Australia -- Features)
Rock Fire threatens landfill Jul 1, 2009
We were operating our dozers. It came in very handy to have heavy equipment right there and staff on hand. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Man of (wheels and) steel Jun 19, 2009
The event, June 27-28 on the west bank of the Flats, is a career fair by day and a concert by night, featuring all genres of music, including Grammy award-winning blues legend Robert Lockwood Jr.; Phil Dirt and the Dozers; and the All-Stars, a vintage rock-n-roll cover band. The event is also a benefit for Cleveland s only career and technical high school, Max Hayes, and of course, a car show, with 75-100 custom, classic, vintage, mild and wild vehicles of all kinds. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Ready for a hot time Jun 18, 2009
If we need additional engines, tenders, dozers or aircraft, we hire them during a fire, Erdmann said. The summer firefighting teams are paid for in part by the West Oregon Forest Protective Association. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Poker run and benefit set for May 30 for Janet Larson May 28, 2009
Additional stops will be at Westside, Newton, second; MVP, Falmouth, located 5 miles north of Newton, third; Dozers, Montrose, fourth; Roadhouse, 8 miles south of Mattoon, fifth. The run will end at the Ice House at about 5 or 6 p.m., with food, raffles, auctions, a 50/50 drawing, and entertainment by the Sawyer Brothers Band. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Cooke Sales & Service closes with no notice to employees May 20, 2009
Cooke offered a complete line of crawler dozers, excavators, backhoes, forklifts and wheel loaders. The closed business in Fulton had numerous pieces of heavy equipment parked outside the business on Monday. (Fulton Sun, MO)
Strike team assists in Santa Barbara blaze May 19, 2009
Cal Fire had a strike team with dozers come back. Ours might be getting released sometime Friday depending on winds and weather. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
The Weeklies: Dawn brings surprise after long night calving May 17, 2009
The mine held a groundbreaking on a heat enclosure building that will house not only its 4400 Terex truck, roughly the size of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but eight huge CAT trucks, three blades and up to four D-11 dozers. The doors to the building will be three-stories high, 38 feet wide and 30 feet high, the largest doors anywhere on the mine. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Lodi City Council approves Wal-Mart Supercenter by 3-2 vote (1836) May 15, 2009
" stucknlodi wrote on May 14, 2009 11:21 AM:" Maybe when the Super Wal-Mart finally starts construction, we will finally see the members of this so called party called Lodi First forming a human chain along the property to try and stop the bull dozers from moving in. Then their faces will be revealed. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Homer brush fire expands to 65 acres; response expanded May 13, 2009
Three dozers were also on the perimeter plowing through brush, he said. The Pioneer Peak Hotshots were en route from Palmer Tuesday night. (Anchorage Daily News)
Kobelco will layoff 66 at Calhoun plant Apr 11, 2009
Kobelco Construction Machinery, which builds bulldozers and hydraulic excavators, said it plans to lay off 66 employees at its Calhoun plant as demand for heavy equipment has dropped ... The plant also manufactures excavators and dozers for the New Holland Construction brand. (Calhoun Times, GA)
Snow funds are denied for Morton County Mar 20, 2009
"We've been plowing steady since then. We have 22 plows we can run throughout the whole county. That's not enough, and there's not enough time to do it. ... We hired a private snowplower, plus some private dozers," Morman said. He said their repeated requests for aid from with governor's office and the state emergency officials have been refused. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Letters to the editor Mar 16, 2009
Mr. Baca was a heavy equipment salesman in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, selling backhoes, crushers, dozers, shovels, trucks, and loaders for 25 years. His former employer would benefit, and maybe he can get a job with Westland Development. (Rio Rancho Observer, NM)
Probes begin into fires as crews battle for control Feb 24, 2009
"Thirteen CFA tankers and 20 DSE crews are on site with five private dozers," he said. "The immediate threat has eased because of the cooler night conditions, however there are strong winds forecast for today so we do expect smoke and fire activity to increase as the day warms up.". (ABC Online)
Firefighters battle second blaze in week’s time Feb 21, 2009
The Texas Forest Service in La Grange responded with two dozers. Firefighters battled the blaze until after 7:30 p.m.. (Sealy News, TX)
Mammoth Grading calls it quits Feb 20, 2009
Mammoth also lists an inventory of 161 pieces of equipment, including 26 excavators, 24 crawler dozers and 21 vibratory compactors, all essential equipment for site preparation and underground utilities work. That equipment is likely to be sold through bankruptcy proceedings to help pay Mammoth s creditors. (Triangle Business Journal)
Greek Cafe is a no-brainer Feb 18, 2009
Tri-Plex wrote on Feb 17, 2009 1:22 PM:" Awesome. So we can spend some big bucks to stabilize this rotting shell so we can have a vacant building on Park Street for years to come. I'm in agreement that another parking garage would be agood fit for that site. Bring in the dozers! ". blackearth wrote on Feb 17, 2009 10:39 AM:" This building will still be far from "saved" unless someone decides to remodel the building. Could there be a building in Uptown that might be brought much closer to usable... (Montana Standard, MT)
Big building for some big rigs Feb 15, 2009
A composit wide angle photo of 18 individual images that show the new addition to Wyoming Machinery that includes two triple bays for over the road and service trucks, five super bays for dozers and road graders and four mega bays for 240-ton trucks ... The mining boom of the past few years has put pressure on the store as the number of dozers waiting for repairs continues to grow ... - 5 super bays for dozers, road graders and rubber-tired dozers. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
State tries to get a handle on scrap tires Feb 13, 2009
It's estimated that Wyoming's 13 active surface coal mines in the Powder River Basin alone employ up to 500 haul trucks -- not counting rubber-tire dozers, scrapers and other large, "off-road" rubber-footed vehicles -- to produce more than 430 million tons of coal annually. At that scale, the mining industry alone can generate more than 43 million pounds of tire waste each year. (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)
Photos by NORMA MARTINEZ Feb 12, 2009
Howie also said Jack Hackett of Hackett and Co. brought in his brush clearing equipment, including big dozers. With instruction from firefighters, they put down a fire line which really helped with breaking down the blaze, the chief said. (Rockport Pilot, TX)
Officials Investigating Gas Leak Off Highway 100 Feb 8, 2009
Wagner said construction crews were performing grading work for two new lanes north of the current highway when one of the dozers punctured a gas line. She was unsure how deep the pipeline was. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Australia ablaze as bushfires kill 36 Feb 7, 2009
That will tend to be in terms of fuel, logistic support, dozers, some personnel and they will help control what is a very difficult situation, Mr Brumby said. Several of the fires are believed to have been deliberately lit, and arsonists are hampering firefighting efforts with some blamed for re-lighting fires that had already been extinguished. (Times Online)
Victoria's bushfire toll now 36, more lives at risk Feb 7, 2009
That will tend to be in terms of fuel, logistic support, dozers, some personnel and they will help control what is a very difficult situation, Mr Brumby said. Police anticipate the death toll from the Victorian bushfires will rise through the day as they investigate vehicles abandoned in the inferno. (The Australian)
