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Featured Content 2007 pg. 11

• More Stops Added to Feel the Burn '07 Itinerary
  Thanks to the kindness of numerous departments across the U.S., Germantown (OH) firefighter Michael Manning has somewhere to stay on his cross-country bike ride to raise money for burn survivors.
• Fire Engineering wins 2007 Jesse Neal Award
  The staff of Fire Engineering received a 2007 Jesse Neal Award for "best single theme or special issue of a magazine or newspaper/news tabloid" for its May 2006 issue "Hurricane Katrina Response and Recovery."
• Incident Report: Chesterfield County (VA) firefighters battle fatal fire
  Although firefighters managed to quickly extinguish a house fire in Ettrick, two youths died. The department then reached out to the community to reinforce fire safety lessons and dispense smoke detectors and batteries.
• Connecting with the Community: Keep Matches and Lighters Away from Kids
  At your next public speaking engagement, emphasize the risks that lighters and matches pose in the hands of children and go over how to keep youngsters fire safe. Parents in the audience will be glad you did.
• Haz-Mat Survival Tips: "Fuming" Trash Containers and Collection Trucks
  You've been called to the scene of a trash container giving off a strange vapor and there's a public official getting hot under the collar. Fire Engineering author Steve De Lisi writes about what to do and not do at just such an incident.
• Dunn's Dispatch: Flashover Defined
  Find out more about this critical fire event and its implications, as well as strategies for delaying it, provided by Fire Engineering author Vincent Dunn, deputy chief (ret.), Fire Department of New York.
• Survey: Time management issues in the fire service
  Ever wish you had more time to accomplish all of your assigned duties? You're not alone. Complete a questionnaire that will help design time management training for firefighters.
• Feel the Burn '07 Itinerary Update
  Germantown (OH) firefighter Michael Manning, who will be bicycling across the country in May to raise money for the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, has confirmed a number of stops along his route.
• Baltimore (MD) Fire Department releases report on recruit's death
  Read the official preliminary report on the death of Baltimore recruit Racheal Wilson, who died in a live-fire exercise on February 9, 2007.
• Be heard: Answer Fire Engineering's June Roundtable Question
  In your department, what qualifies or disqualifies a line firefighter as it pertains to health? How do you deal with insulin dependent vs. noninsulin-dependent diabetic firefighters?

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