From the IllinoisFireSafetyAlliance.com: Last week, I came across an inspiring story about Camp “I Am Me,” a unique summer camp held in Ingleside, Illinois. This year marks its 26th annual session, where around 70 burn-injured children will get the chance to experience a special kind of summer camp. Organized by the nonprofit Illinois Fire Safety Alliance (IFSA), the event takes place at YMCA Camp Duncan and offers a mix of regular camp activities along with programs tailored specifically to meet the needs of burn survivors. Despite the significant cost of $2,400 per child, the camp remains free for participants thanks to generous donations. The camp serves children aged eight to sixteen who have suffered burns due to accidents involving scalding water, chemicals, fires, or electrical injuries. Although they make up just a fraction of the hundreds of burn victims in Illinois annually, the IFSA works closely with hospital burn units to spread awareness and extend support to more children. Their vision is to provide this life-changing opportunity to every burn-injured child in the state. At Camp “I Am Me,” the kids don't just enjoy typical camp activities—they also participate in character-building workshops, journaling exercises, and therapeutic sessions. These activities happen in a supportive atmosphere that encourages personal growth and boosts self-esteem. For many of these young burn survivors, these resources and opportunities aren’t available back home. One of the camp’s coordinators mentioned how many kids feel isolated during their recovery process. They often face teasing or bullying because of their visible scars, which can be both physical and psychological. But camp gives them a sense of belonging and reassurance that they’re not alone. It's a transformative experience that leaves a lasting impression on their lives. Interestingly, over a third of the camp’s volunteers are former campers themselves. Alongside them are firefighters, medical professionals, educators, and members of the private sector who dedicate their time to make this possible. On average, there’s nearly one volunteer for every camper. On Wednesday, June 22, the camp celebrated Appreciation Day starting at 11:00 a.m. with a grand parade featuring fire trucks and emergency vehicles from across the state. The sound of sirens filled the air as these vehicles arrived at camp. Following the parade, guests enjoyed lunch at noon before a heartfelt ceremony at 1:00 p.m. to honor donors, supporters, and volunteers. As the day wrapped up, campers got to unwind at the Fun Fair, complete with carnival games, face painting, dunk tanks, bounce houses, and loads of prizes. This camp truly exemplifies how communities can come together to support those in need, creating a safe space for healing and growth. It’s heartening to see such dedication and compassion in action.

Spiral Chute Separator

Spiral chute is a device that combines the characteristics of spiral concentrator, spiral chute, shaker, and centrifugal concentrator, making it the best equipment for mining and beneficiation, especially for placer mining on seashores, riversides, sand beaches, and streams. ideal.

This equipment is suitable for sorting iron ore, ilmenite, chromite, pyrite, zircon, rutile, monazite, phosphobitite, tungsten ore, tin ore, tantalum ore with a particle size of 0.3--0.02 mm. Ores, niobium ores and other non-ferrous metals, rare metals and non-metallic minerals with different specific gravity. This equipment has the advantages of stable sorting process, easy control, wide range of allowable change of ore concentration, high enrichment ratio and high recovery rate.

structure:
The spiral chute is composed of an ore feeder, a cross (tripod), a feed chute, a spiral chute, an intercepting chute, an accumulating bucket, and a chute pillar.
How to use

Stand up the spiral chute, calibrate the vertical line, fix it in a suitable position with an iron frame or wood, send the ore to the top two feeding ports of the spiral by the sand pump, add supplementary water, adjust the concentration of the ore paddle, The ore paddle naturally swirls from the height to the bottom, and an inertial centrifugal force is generated in the rotating inclined plane flow rate. The ore is separated from the sand by the gravity and centrifugal force of the swirling flow due to the difference in the specific gravity, particle size, and shape of the ore. , the concentrate flows into the concentrate hopper and is connected out with pipes, the tailings flow into the tailings hopper is connected to the sand tank with pipes, and then drained away with a sand pump, completing the whole process of beneficiation.

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