FIRE ENGINEERING
April 1978 Volume 131 No. 4
THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877
28 Airlift
35 Time studies
40 Proximity suits
49 Student fire fighters
features
6 The Editor’s Opinion Page
18 Banned PCB in Transformers Is Health Hazard
20 What’s Visible and Safe? It’s Fire Engine Red!
28 Two Airlifted Out of 650-Foot Stack
30 Prefabs Used as Temporary Stations
35 Job Performance Improved by Making Time Studies
36 Fire Service Messages Get Free Billboard Space
38 HQ Station in Bridgeport, Conn.
40 Tests Show Why Breathing Apparatus Must Be Worn With Proximity Suits
46 Tandem Gasoline Tanker Fatal Fire
49 Students Work as City Fire Fighters
50 Young Group of Buffs Aids Interest in Old Apparatus
52 Computerized Dispatching in Brooklyn
55 Universal Friction Loss Formula
59 Readers’ Service File of Manufacturers’ Literature
departments
8 The Book Shelf
10 The Volunteers Corner
12 Coming Events
14 The Round Table
16 Fire Schools and Seminars
25 Names in the News
89 From the Publisher’s Desk
90 Advertisers’ Index