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Featured Content 2007 pg. 8

• Haz-Mat Survival Tips: Protective Actions
  What steps do you take when a haz-mat incident requires defensive operations like evacuating citizens, or sheltering in-place? Steve DeLisi walks you through responses to such an incident.
• Voice your opinion in Fire Engineering's October Roundtable
  What recent change has most influenced your department over the past 10 to 20 years? Send us your responses, which may be published in a future edition of Fire Engineering.
• To Teach, or Not to Teach: Beyond Slide Shows
  Though useful, slide shows can be detrimental to learning in modern fire training. Joesph Lawrence diagnoses the problem and has some ways to get fire students into the lesson.
• Community Involvement: Planning For the Big One
  Are your citizens ready for a local, regional, or even national emergency? Help them prepare for the worst-case scenario with a disaster supply kit.
• Feel the Burn '07: Ride For Burn Survivors Goes West
  Firefighter Mike Manning enters the home stretch in his quest to ride cross-country to raise money for burn survivors, stopping in Colorado at the the Fallen Firefighters Memorial and meeting with local survivors.
• From the Editor's Desk
  Fire Engineering Editor in Chief Bobby Halton discusses some recent tragedies in the fire service and how sprinkler systems saved one fire department a lot of headaches--and money.
• From The Jumpseat: Clearing the Air
  Radio communications can become confused during some of the most crucial times during an incident. Mark Cotter has some simple steps to keeping your crews' channels open even in the most harrowing moments.
• Dunn's Dispatch: Communications Strategies
  Do you know how to communicate a life-and-death situation at a fire? Vincent Dunn examines who's responsible for communicating this vital information on the fireground.
• Incident Report: Hotel fire in Chesterfield County, VA
  Smoke detectors alerted hotel occupants to a fire that ripped through the structure. Chesterfield County (VA) Fire and EMS members' defensive operations managed to keep the fire under control.
• Late Eversole 'never acted as important as he really was'
  Read Greg Noll's eulogy of the late haz-mat pioneer John Eversole, Deputy Chief (Ret.) of the Chicago Fire (IL) Department. John died on May 20, 2007.

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