FIRE ENGINEERING®

FIRE ENGINEERING®

April 1980 Volume 133 No. 4

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

24 Prison

29 Factor

33 Crash

72 Water Winch

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

24 Cooperation Blends Security With Fire Safety in Prison

29 Exposure Protection Is Major Goal as Fire Possesses Vacant Factory

30 Volunteers Rebuild Wreck, Get Rescue Unit for $6000

33 2-Train Crash Gives Mutual Aid Plan Initial Test With Accent on EMS Units

37 Thompson Talks About Goals for National Academy

42 State Directors Clarify Relationship With National Academy at Conference

54 Jaws Fracture Fused Mass of Lexan Bottles Over Fire

54 Fire Fighter Tags Provide Vital Data in Event of injury

55 LA City Continues Station Program

70 Falling Ladder Pipe Kills Fire Fighter in Los Angeles

72 Water Winch Used to Keep Draft Depth in Portable Tanks

74 Circul-Air Corporation Marks 40th Anniversary

77 Traffic Control System Cuts Time and Accidents

57 Reader Service Files of Manufacturers’ Literature

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

10 The Round Table

16 Coming Events

78 Fire Equipment Digest

82 Names in the News

84 Fire Schools and Seminars

89 From the Publisher’s Desk

90 Advertisers’ Index

82-Year-Old Woman Dies in Wheatfield (NY) House Fire

An 82-year-old woman died in a house fire late Friday in the Town of Wheatfield, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office said.

Fire Destroys Peterborough (NH) Home

Firefighters battled a fire Sunday afternoon that destroyed a single-family home on Nichols Road in Peterborough.