FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

September 1984

Volume 137 No. 9

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL 6

Minimum safety standards aren’t always enough.

VOLUNTEERS CORNER 8

Effective Use of Pumpers

TRAINING NOTEBOOK 10

Building Construction: Void Spaces

DISPATCHES 46

Group homes repeat tragic story

LETTERS 14

COMING EVENTS 82

SCHOOLS 82

APPARATUS 84

INNOVATIONS/DELIVERIES

SPECIAL PUMP SECTION 86

EQUIPMENT DIGEST 89

NEWS 92

CLASSIFIEDS 96

ADVERTISERS’ INDEX 97

READER SERVICE CARD 99

FEATURES

STRATEGY AND TACTICS

MODEL INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM 17

Determine the amount of manpower required at an incident for effective fire suppression.

BY BURTON W. PHELPS and EDWARD J. MCDONALD

SPECIAL RISK FIRES

THE LOCAL PHARMACY FIRE 24

The potential for hazardous material incidents and deadly fire disasters is as close as your neighborhood drug store.

BY RICHARD E. DOZIER

MANAGEMENT

DELEGATION FOR GROWTH AND SURVIVAL 32

By providing for growth in the managerial ranks of subordinates, the volunteer department will eventually have a chief who won’t spend his whole two-year term learning the job.

BY HUGH J. CAULFIELD

WATER SUPPLY

TANDEM PUMPING 38

Establishment of an effective water supply is vital to practically all successful fire suppression operations.

BY JAMES E. LESNICK

FIRE PREVENTION

MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY FIRE DEATHS 42

Regulations and code enforcement can be the key to reducing these too often encountered incidents.

BY JOHN G DEGENKOLB

CONSIDER YOUR AUDIENCE 52

A unique fire prevention program brings home the lesson of gearing programs to meet the special needs of particular audiences—in this case, group homes.

BY CATHERINE M. YOUNG

TRAINING

TESTING HIGH-RISE SOPs 57

Reliance on the building’s fire protection systems and interior emergency operations are of primary importance.

BY BRADLEY ANDERSON

ARSON INVESTIGATION

WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING AT? 64

Increase the value of your photos in a fire investigation as well as in a courtroom.

BY JOSEPH F. BENYO

STATEWIDE SMOKE DETECTOR BLITZ 72

What began as an idea for a smoke detector awareness campaign expanded into a $500,000 advertising program funded completely by donations and ingenuity.

BY ROBERT L. GARRISON

LAFD SUV in the ocean

Los Angeles Firefighter Swept Into Ocean as Mudslides Hit CA

A Los Angeles Fire Department vehicle was pushed into the ocean as heavy rains sent debris across several roadways.

Grandville (MI) Fire Truck Hit While Responding to I-196 Rollover

Michigan State Police are reminding drivers to pull over for emergency vehicles after a fire truck was struck Wednesday night.