FE Volume 131 Issue 3

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FIRE ENGINEERING

5 The Editor’s Opinion Page 22 Fighting $25-Million Brush Fire 26 Sun Helps Heat, Cool Dallas Station 29 More Women Entering Fire Service 33 Hiring Women Fire Fighters Opposed 34 Army Veteran Joins the Fire Line 36 Split-Pipe Simulator Aids LPG Training 39 Fireground Noise Levels Give Sound Reason for Hearing Protection
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No Smoking on Hire Line

No Smoking on Hire Line

The Alexandria, Va., Fire Department will no longer hire applicants who smoke. Chief Charles H. Rule and Rolfe E. Schroeder, city personnel director, remarked that…
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How to Estimate Value Of Department Rating In Insurance Savings

Have you ever stopped to think how valuable a rated fire department is to a community? We all derive benefits from community services. The most…
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staff

staff

JAMES F. CASEY Editor RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor BARBARA E. GOLDBERG Assistant Editor
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Small Crash-Fire Units Tested by Air Force

Small Crash-Fire Units Tested by Air Force

Small response vehicles that can do double duty as fire suppression and rescue units are being tested by the United States Air Force. The tests…
Fire SafetyFire Suppression Systems

Hose Pack for Apartments

To meet changing needs in a fastgrowing suburb, a different type of hose pack for initial attack lines has been developed for the Cameron Park…
Firefighting EquipmentHoselines

Split-Pipe Simulator Aids LPG Training

A simple device for training in LPG fire fighting was demonstrated to the Wisconsin Society of Fire Service Instructors at its Milwaukee conference last September…
Firefighter Training
The Round Table

The Round Table

E. Mandeville, Director, Verdun, Quebec: Regarding your specific question as to whether or not I feel that we have enough men in our fire prevention…
Fire PreventionFire Safety
16 mm Films

16 mm Films

MOBILE HOME FIRE SAFETY, Film Communicators, 11136 Weddington Street, North Hollywood, Calif. 91601; 15 minutes, $225. This film emphasizes escape planning, fire prevention, early detection…
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Battle Creek, Mich. I am somewhat disturbed by the article “From Hand Tubs to Super Pumper,” by Paul C. Ditzel in the November issue of…
Fire Apparatus
Hiring Women Fire Fighters Opposed

Hiring Women Fire Fighters Opposed

The view that I am about to express is certainly not the popular one these days. However, I must take issue with some of the…
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Fire Equipment Digest

Teledyne Big Beam has introduced an addition to its emergency lighting systems, known as the RSC6G series of recessed emergency lights. This unit contains a…
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Fighting $25-Million Brush Fire

03.01.1978
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From the Publishers Desk

03.01.1978
Fire PreventionFire Safety

Army Veteran Joins the Fire Line

03.01.1978
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Coming Events

03.01.1978
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Fire Academy to Offer Master Planning Course

03.01.1978
Fire PreventionFire Safety

Fire Schools and Seminars

03.01.1978
Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

Fireground Noise Levels Give Sound Reasons For Hearing Protection

03.01.1978
Fire PreventionFire Safety

Knots Can’t Be Taught, They Have to Be Learned

03.01.1978
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Supermarket Doomed by Delayed Alarm

03.01.1978
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Fire Academy Head Tells Why It Took 3 Years to Put Courses Into Field

03.01.1978
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Sun Helps Heat, Cool Dallas Station

03.01.1978
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Retain Academy Advisers

03.01.1978
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