FIRE ENGINEERING
January 1982 Volume 135 No. 1
THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877
features
6 The Editor’s Opinion Page
11 Another Way to Keep Rope Tangle-Free
12 FDIC To Explore ‘New Directions’ March 29—April 1
14 Routine Call to Fireworks—Bombs Found
22 The Cover Story: 17 Buildings Destroyed, 9 Damaged by Lynn. Mass., Conflagration
29 Low-Cost Computers for the Fire Service
34 Hollywood Fire Station Celebrates 50th Anniversary
36 Rescue From Grain Elevator Requires Coordinated Action
38 New Uses for Surplus SCBA Cases
40 Haz-Mat Information Hard to Locate When Three Freight Trains Pile Up
43 Local Service Clubs Can Help With Special Projects Funding
86 Military Tank Transporter Overturns and Falls Into Creek
88 Apathetic Public? Ignorant? Neither?
44 1982 Fire Service Catalog
departments
8 The Volunteers Corner
18 Fire Schools and Seminars
90 Films and 35MM Slides
94 Fire Equipment Digest
99 Manufacturers’ Literature
103 From the Publisher’s Desk
104 Advertisers’ Index
105 Reader Service Card
22 Lynn conflagration
29 Low-cost computers
36 Grain elevator
40 Freight trains