FIRE ENGINEERING

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

Saegertown explosion

Firefighters Among More Than a Dozen Injured in PA Explosion

A major explosion Sunday injured more than a dozen people, including several firefighters, in Saegertown, Pennsylvania.
Trailer Fire Metairie (LA)

Trailer Catches Fire, Explodes on I-10, Damaging Nearby Metairie (LA) Homes

A trailer carrying motorcycles and nitrous oxide cannisters caught fire on Interstate 10 and exploded Saturday, damaging two nearby Metairie homes and possibly a passing car, according to Jefferson Parish and…