IMFSE Lund

Lund University LTH V-Building, where one becomes a jedi master in fire:

Fire suits, or astronauts in training?

Ah, boiled potatoes, lingonberry, meatballs, brown sauce, the essence of hearty Swedish foods:

Dennis, proud of his little fire experiment:

With the president of Lund University:

Ninja like concentration is necessary to study fire:

Never too cold for a barbecue (Boras, Sweden):

Robert organizing a great field trip. Here learning about fire doors:

Marta & The Mustaches present about risk assessment:

Group lunches in V building:
Prof Henrik & Marcus, displaying pure joy in anticipation of correcting 20 risk assessment exams:

The preferred method of travel around Lund:

Getting a feel for people density in human behaviour. Otherwise known as a good reason for spontaneous dance party:

Here we have unequivocal, scientific proof that wearing a tie in Sweden does not make you any smarter or better than your neighbor:

!Caught on Camera: Intense learning!

Class trip to SP fire in Boras, Sweden:

The class with our fearless teacher, Daniel Nilsson:
Birthday celebrations on an international level:

The beautiful Lund cathedral:

Minutes, wait.... possibly seconds, after completing the last exam of the semester, smiles and drinks:

Student absorptivity=1, unfortunately, teacher emissivity here approaching zero.

Marta secretly places the cameras for the evacuation experiment:

So, after all these years, this is what the promised land looks like:

A quick bike ride only 5 minutes outside Lund:

A winter Siberia could sympathize with:

And finally, the amazing graduation garbs:

Malmö

Malmo is only 20 minutes from Lund by bus, and the first city as you cross the bridge from Copenhagen to Sweden. It is the third largest city in Sweden with around 300,000.

I wasn't expecting much, which is perhaps why I did not end up visiting until nearly the last month here, but I was pleasantly surprised. They have a well preserved old town, and although it does not match the scale of the one in Stockholm, it is full of very old tiny cottage like houses and cobbled streets.

The most famous attraction is a tall building in the middle of nowhere called the turning torso. Other than that they had some really nice parks filled with tulips, some rivers, waterfronts, a few plazas, and a castle from the 1400s constructed as a stronghold for Denmark when they controlled this area.

Other than that, due to it's location, Malmo has been the first port of entry to Sweden for immigrants, and hosts a large population from Arab countries (Iraq, Iran, & Lebanon mostly), plus Poland. About 30% of the city is immigrants (probably the most of any city in Sweden). That certainly seems to be a point of political contention and media attention nowadays given the slow trend taking place in Europe that seems to be anti-immigratory.















I tried to blend in, guess it didn't work:




Part of Malmo castle with a moat:






Their main train station has videos and slide shows projected on to the wall. No fair:

Blue and Yellow Furniture

Photos from an obligatory trip to a Swedish IKEA.

Excited and anticipatory:


The ingång...almost there...

Realizing in diappointing fashion that it is same thing except the language:


Got tired walking through that maze...mid-point nap in the bed department:


Thinking of offering them my couch testing services:


Possibly the cheapest meal you can find in all of Sweden. 8 meatballs, 3 potatoes, brown sauce, and lingonberry jam...$2. I'll take seconds.

Rhode Island Fire

Here is a first hand video of a fire that occurred in a club in Rhode Island in 2003. A good account of how humans may act in a fire and reminder or even first time lesson to learn how incredibly fast a fire can grow and become uncontrollable and deadly. 100 lives were lost.




(Here is a link to the video as well...http://youtu.be/2DObOdAceGo