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Featured Content 2006 pg. 3

• Join in February's Fire Engineering Roundtable Discussions
  Click here to present your viewpoint in the Roundtable discussions in future issues of Fire Engineering.
• REMEMBER THE HEROES
  "We will never forget. We will honor them forever in our thoughts and actions." An editorial from Fire Engineering.
• FDIC 2006 video available online
  Click HERE for highlights from FDIC 2006.
• FIRE ENGINEERING TRAINING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
  download form - Nominations are now being accepted for the Fire Engineering Training Achievement Award.
• Haz-Mat Survival Tips - Beyond the Rule of Thumb
  Survival Tip 4 - Material Safety Data Sheets
  MSDS offer critical data to those responding to a haz-mat emergency, but the information they provide often is geared to employees who use chemicals, not first responders.
• Pride and Ownership: Love For the Job
  Rick Lasky takes an honest look at the fire service in the Aug. 23 webcast. To REGISTER, click here: iian.ibeam.com/events/penn001/16031/
• Training Tips: Stand Up for Stand Down!
  Hands-on training is the key to making a Stand Down day special. For the 2006 Stand Down exercise, an advanced-skill evolution proved memorable and valuable to all participants.
• Haz-Mat Survival Tips - Beyond The Rule Of Thumb
  Survival Tip 3 - Producing Class B Foam Solutions
  Class B foam is a material that allows water to be used on fires that would otherwise not respond well to water application.
• Health Beat - Cardiovascular Health: Trans Fat Update
  As of January 1, 2006, food companies have had to list the trans fat content, if it is at least 0.5 gram per serving, in their packaged food products as a separate on the Nutrition Facts panel. Saturated and unsaturated fat contents are also listed.
• Reading A Building - Practicing The Theory
  Although means of egress has always been an important fireground consideration, it is more important today than ever in the history of the fire service.