Reflection:Hard materials
Yesterday in hard materials I have finished my design for my project. My plan was to carve the piece of wood into a normal human and draw arrows on his forehead to tell people that he's the Avatar. With a wave in front of him, where when I turn the handle the waves would be moving back and forth and it would look like he's controlling it.
I had finally finished all the writing work and now I'm finally at the hands-on stage in hard materials.
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Friday 25 May 2012
The Ballntyne fire
The Ballantyne fire
The Ballantyne fire happened in 1947. It was known to be the most terrible fire in New Zealand history. The fire happened at the corner of Colombo street and Cashel street in the center of Christchurch.It was 3:31 pm when an employee found smoke rising from downstairs. Immediately the employee spoke to another colleague inside the Ballantyne department.
There was no sound or sight of any flames except the salesman instructed the employee to alarm the owners and to phone the fire brigade. It was some minutes later that the fire brigade still hadn't turned up and the salesman was getting more worried by the minute , so instead of waiting for the fire brigade he assembled a team of staff members to place fire extinguishers at the bottom of the stairs. The owners of the department store , Kenneth and Roger Ballantyne had been warned about the fire but but they were unsure about the seriousness of the fire.
Another call to the fire brigade was made at 3:40 pm then 250 employees were evacuated from the building immediately. Moments later the fire brigade finally showed up with no time to spare. Once the fire fighters saw what was happening they were in a rush to put out the fire. At 6:00 pm a few fire fighters and some police officers helped to find any dead bodies in the ruins. At 8:00 pm the fire finally died out.
The fire brigade apologized to the remaining employees of the Ballantyne department because they thought it was just a ceiling fire but then they realised it was a real emergency when the employees started calling every 5 minutes. 41 people died in the disastrous fire.
The Ballantyne fire happened in 1947. It was known to be the most terrible fire in New Zealand history. The fire happened at the corner of Colombo street and Cashel street in the center of Christchurch.It was 3:31 pm when an employee found smoke rising from downstairs. Immediately the employee spoke to another colleague inside the Ballantyne department.
There was no sound or sight of any flames except the salesman instructed the employee to alarm the owners and to phone the fire brigade. It was some minutes later that the fire brigade still hadn't turned up and the salesman was getting more worried by the minute , so instead of waiting for the fire brigade he assembled a team of staff members to place fire extinguishers at the bottom of the stairs. The owners of the department store , Kenneth and Roger Ballantyne had been warned about the fire but but they were unsure about the seriousness of the fire.
Another call to the fire brigade was made at 3:40 pm then 250 employees were evacuated from the building immediately. Moments later the fire brigade finally showed up with no time to spare. Once the fire fighters saw what was happening they were in a rush to put out the fire. At 6:00 pm a few fire fighters and some police officers helped to find any dead bodies in the ruins. At 8:00 pm the fire finally died out.
The fire brigade apologized to the remaining employees of the Ballantyne department because they thought it was just a ceiling fire but then they realised it was a real emergency when the employees started calling every 5 minutes. 41 people died in the disastrous fire.
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