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  2. Firefighting - Wikipedia

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    Firefighting is a profession aimed at controlling and extinguishing fire. [ 1] A person who engages in firefighting is known as a firefighter or fireman. [ 2] Firefighters typically undergo a high degree of technical training. [ 2][ 3] This involves structural firefighting and wildland firefighting. Specialized training includes aircraft ...

  3. Glossary of firefighting - Wikipedia

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    Alarm: (1) system for detecting and reporting unusual conditions, such as smoke, fire, flood, loss of air, HAZMAT release, etc.; (2) a specific assignment of multiple fire companies and/or units to a particular incident, usually of fire in nature; (3) centralized dispatch center for interpreting alarms and dispatching resources.

  4. Highest and best use - Wikipedia

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    The highest and best use of the site is to demolish the house and sell the site as a commercial lot. The market value would be $225,000 ($250,000 site value minus $25,000 demolition cost). However, if the demolition costs rose to $55,000, the highest and best use would be the existing residential use, because the value as a commercial lot (now ...

  5. Real Estate Definitions Every Seller Should Know - AOL

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    Assessed value: The value of real estate property as determined by an assessor, typically from the county. "As-is": A contract or listing clause stating that the seller will not repair or correct ...

  6. Firefight - Wikipedia

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    Firefight or fire fight most often refers to: Firefighting, the profession of controlling and extinguishing fires. Shootout or firefight, a combat between armed groups using firearms. Firefight or fire fight may also refer to: Firefight: Modern U.S. and Soviet Small Unit Tactics, a 1976 board game. Fire Fight, a 1996 video game.

  7. Four unities - Wikipedia

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    The four unities is a concept in the common law of real property that describes conditions that must exist in order to create certain kinds of property interests. . Specifically, these four unities must be met for two or more people to own property as joint tenants with legal right of survivorship, or for a married couple to own property as tenants by

  8. Phase I environmental site assessment - Wikipedia

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    Any piece of real estate can be the subject of a Phase I ESA. In the United States, an environmental site assessment is a report prepared for a real estate holding that identifies potential or existing environmental contamination liabilities. The analysis, often called an ESA, typically addresses both the underlying land as well as physical ...

  9. Allodial title - Wikipedia

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    Allodial title constitutes ownership of real property (land, buildings, and fixtures) that is independent of any superior landlord. Allodial title is related to the concept of land held in allodium, or land ownership by occupancy and defence of the land. Most property ownership in common law jurisdictions is fee simple.