College partying and extinguishers still don't mix.

Miami linebacker Willie Williams, the most controversial recruit in school history, kept his promise to behave off the field. But his surprising on-the-field struggles likely have ended his Hurricanes career.

Considered one of the top high school prospects in the nation, Williams made headlines during the recruiting process when police accused him of grabbing a UF student against her will and tampering with three fire extinguishers during his visit to the university.

In today's New York Daily News:

The bar - whose name and attitude seems to resemble Hogs N Heifers, the iconic biker bar in Manhattan's Meatpacking District - also was cited for 17 fire code citations, which resulted in it being closed.

Among them was a faulty fire alarm system, missing fire extinguishers and a 315-person crowd inside the bar Tuesday that far exceeded the legal occupancy of 50 people, police said.

After the Station Night Club,  you would think bar owners with pay more attention. 

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Emergency services crew later said they could not believe how lucky the driver was as the stump which punched through the roof of the vehicle missed her by only inches.

The fire in the crashed vehicle was quickly brought under control by another man, who arrived soon after with a portable fire extinguisher. Local fire crew from the NSW Fire Brigades and the Rural Fire Service attended the scene and made sure the fire was out.

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Fauquier Virginia:

Each of the former Liberty High School students faces felony charges of breaking and entering, and damaging a building. The latter is a Class 6 felony, punishable upon conviction by one to five years in prison; up to one year in jail, and/or a fine of up to $2,500.

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After fire,  OSHA violations come to light.

CBCL was one of the businesses damaged last month when the former mill building caught on fire. Acidic smoke from the fire caused the mandatory evacuation of half of Great Falls' 2,200 residents for several days.

The smoke contained hydrochloric acid that resulted from the burning of polyvinyl chloride in CBCL. Water used to extinguish the fire mixed with the plastic chips to form the hydrochloric acid, according to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.

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Interesting post on Homeland Security Watch from Friday.  It seems that a test of RFID use in the the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program shows security holes at the data layer.

A very worth while read posted on Homeland Security Watch.

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Fire Extinguishers at work:

Jim Piatt, an employee of Midwest Maintenance Inc., said a power washer being used to clean a wall outside the old courthouse, now the Lexington History Center, caught fire. Workmen put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher.

Inside, employees were unaware of the excitement. "If anything is on fire, our alarms would be going off. They're quite shrill, and we have not heard anything," said Debra Watkins, the museum's volunteer coordinator.