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FE Volume 132 Issue 2

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Fire Department Shares Public Safety Building

The Coldwater, Mich., Fire Department has moved into a public safety building that it shares with the police department. The new building replaces a fire station built in 1861, the only one the town of 9000 persons ever had. — The fire department half of the building has a 61 X 92-foot apparatus floor with four bays, two of them double-depth, drive-through bays.

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Building Construction Fire Safety

Fire Schools and Seminars

Arkansas Fire Training Academy—Weekday Courses: Multimedia First Aid: Basic, Mar. 5; Multimedia First Aid: Instructor, Mar. 6; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Basic, Mar. 6; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Instructor,…

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Fire Service Career Firefighter Training

McCormack Resigns, Perry Called ‘Prime Candidate’ to Head Academy

In an unexpected move, David M. McCormack resigned as superintendent of the National Fire Academy, effective February 1. He completed his third year in that…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

First-In Officer’s Decisions Set Pattern for Fire Attack

Decisions made by the first-in officer at fire are extremely important because they establish a pattern for the development of the fire attack by later…

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Fire Attack Firefighting

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Computerized Alarm System Recalls Occupancy Data

A computerized system for receiving automatic sprinkler waterflow and fire detector alarms and then retrieving pertinent information on the affected location has been installed in…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Loss Lesson Kit

“Preplanning Pays Off,” an illustrated loss lesson kit, has been developed by factory Mutual Engineering and Research to encourage its insured members and local fire…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

LSU Fire Training Gets 2nd Pumper Under Lease Plan

The Louisiana State University Firemen Training Program in June 1975, entered into a lease agreement with FMC Corporation for a 750-gpm pumper, complete with all…

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Firefighting Equipment Hoselines

Fire Fighting Based On Cold Facts in Barrow, Alaska

Fire chiefs in every state have at times felt that their own resources were insufficient to cope with major emergencies in their communities. For this…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Inspectors List Safety Tips for Wood Stoves

Faced with the increasing popularity of wood-burning stoves and their inherent fire-safety problems, the Fire Inspectors Association of the Town of Huntington, N.Y., has printed…

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Fire Safety

staff

JAMES F. CASEY Editor RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor LINDA KRAUS Assistant Editor

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting