By Chris Furguson The City of Brawley upped the ante on their pursuit of a suspected arsonist within the city after another major fire happened in the downtown section of the city after an emergency meeting on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the suspected arsonist has increased from $5,000 to $50,000 after the council voted in closed session. The meeting, part of which took place in closed session, was called after the A Plus Furniture store burned in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Fighitng the fire caused smoke and water damage to two nearby businesses. The April 10 fire was the latest in a series of blazes terrorizing the downtown area of Brawley. At least four downtown Brawley buildings have burned in the past eight months with many other smaller fires being reported and stopped. A three-alarm call was made during the April 10 fire, which involved agencies from as far as Calexico, Niland and the Naval Air Facility – El Centro. The investigation into all the fire activity is still ongoing and anyone with information is urgenty asked to contact Detective Sergeant Kelly Brown at (760)351-7777.
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Two University of Calgary researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130328142356.htm# into chemical energy.
Their technology opens the door to homeowners and http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130328142356.htm# being able to easily store and reuse solar and wind power. Such energy is clean and renewable, but it’s available only when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing.
The research by Curtis Berlinguette and Simon Trudel, both in the chemistry department in the Faculty of Science, has just been published in the journal Science.