FE Volume 132 Issue 3

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NFA Takes Healthy Look at Fitness

The National Fire Academy is responding to concern about the physical fitness of fire fighters. Working in conjunction with the Institute of Human Performance in Fairfax, Va., the academy is developing an extensive course directly concerned with the fire fighter’s physical well-being.
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16 mm Films

16 mm Films

HIGHFIRE! PLAN FOR SURVIVAL, Film Communicators, 11136 Weddington Street, N. Hollywood, Calif. 91601; color, 19 minutes; rental $70 week, purchase $340. Life safety and fire…
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Don’t Wait for Disasters to Happen

Canyon City sits out on the plains of the Texas Panhandle and, with a population of some 8000 persons, it is not a place where…
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35MM Slides

35MM Slides

HOME FIRE INSPECTION, Film Communicators, 11136 Weddington Street, North Hollywood, Calif. 91601; 126 color slides and tape, 15 minutes; $110. Slide-tape program points out possible…
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Volunteers Fight Fires in 2 Nations

The Hogansburg, N.Y., Volunteer Fire Department has an unusual distinction. This department has firehouses on both sides of the United States-Canadian border—one in New York…
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Coming Events

Coming Events

April 5-8—New England Division, IAFC: Annual conference. Sheraton-Wayfarer Motor Inn, Bedford, N.H. For further information, contact Chief Gerard A. Carle, 10 Champlain Street, Dracut, Mass.…
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Go-Anywhere Gas Turbine Pump Module

A 2000-gpm pump module that can be transported by ship, air or land for fighting ship fires has recently been delivered to the United States…
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The Book Shelf

The Book Shelf

FIRE PROTECTION GUIDE ON HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, 7th Edition; National Fire Protection Association, 470 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Mass. 02210; 1302 pages, $12.50. Although thick, this paperback…
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New York Designs Door-to-Door Effort To Cut Fire Deaths

An intensive fire prevention and safety education program that will be concentrated in areas where fire fatalities have occurred has been developed by the New…
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Manufacturers’ Literature

Manufacturers’ Literature

80 Safety Belt&emdash;Wydra Manufacturing Co. has a two-page data sheet on the Wydra safety belt which allows fire fighters to work safely on a roof…
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staff

staff

JAMES F. CASEY Editor RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor LINDA R. KRAUS Assistant Editor
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Fire Schools and Seminars

Fire Schools and Seminars

Arkansas Fire Training Academy—Weekday Courses: Advanced Fire Pump Operations, March 26-30; Rookie School, April 2-6; Fire Prevention Seminar, April 9-11; Advisory Committee For Fire Department…
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Fighting Fires in Taxpayer Buildings Raises Cockloft, Back Draft Problems

03.01.1979
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Noncombustible Buildings— Death Traps for Fire Fighters

03.01.1979
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Laminating Pre-Fire Plans Curbs Dog-Eared Problem

03.01.1979
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Safety for Fixed Ladders

03.01.1979
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Railroad Offers Disaster Planning

03.01.1979
HazmatTechnical Rescue

Pumps on Patrols Designed for Air-Lifts

03.01.1979
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32 Fire Fighters Trained To Repair Breathing Units

03.01.1979
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San Diego Midair Crash Triggers Disaster Plan

03.01.1979
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30-Hour Fire in Blizzard Tests Men and Apparatus

03.01.1979
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FE Volume 132 Issue 3

03.01.1979
Issues

Extinguishing Powder From Dead Sea

03.01.1979
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FIRE ENGINEERING

03.01.1979
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