FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

February 1981 Volume 134 No. 2

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

12 Fire Fighter Dies in Fall Through Roof at L.A. Blaze

17 Fire After Gas Explosion Destroys Half Block of Commercial Buildings

21 Boy Scout Program Clears Hydrants After Snowstorms

22 Skylights, Fire Wall Limit Damage

26 Fast-Spreading Fire Destroys Old Factory

29 Multiple-Choice Questions for Tests

36 Threat of Fire In Hill Area Spurs Organization of Volunteer Department

38 To Aspirate or Not to Aspirate AFFF? Tests, Advice Help Answer Question

51 Speaker-Training Program of Ventura County F.D.

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

44 Fire Schools and Seminars

45 Coming Events

45 The Book Shelf

46 The Round Table

48 EMS Operations

50 Manufacturers’ Literature

53 Fire Equipment Digest

57 From the Publisher’s Desk

58 Advertisers’ Index

59 Reader Service Card

12 L.A. blaze

17 Gas explosion

22 Fire wall

36 Volunteer department

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…