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FE Volume 138 Issue 9

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The Flammable Incendiary Liquid: BOOZE

The types of fires that most readily grab our atttention and activate our investigative instincts are obviously the most dramatic ones: arsonist kills ex-wife and lover in revenge fire; pyro sets fire to fifth barn in as many weeks; twenty families homeless after suspicious fire in apartment building.

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Escape House Program Teaches Survival

When the Centereach, NY, Volunteer Fire Department held its annual open house last year, the activities included blood pressure tests, fingerprinting of children (the parents…

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Leaking Underground Storage Tanks

Your alarm office receives a report of a gasoline odor in a detached, single-family residence on one of your quieter streets. As you enter the…

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Missing Children Program: A Fire Service-Community Project

The value of the volunteer fire service is very often underrated by the public it serves. Perhaps your department has saved several lives and hundreds…

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Staff

Editor THOMAS F. BRENNAN Associate Editors JACKIE COX AUDREY PAVEY Art Director R. NELSON CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Steel and Polybutylene Provide Sprinkler System for Fire Station

As part of a major renovation of its 56-year-old station, the Takoma Park, MD, Volunteer Fire Department, in conjunction with Montgomery County's Department of Fire…

Fire Safety Fire Suppression Systems

Fire Prevention An Aid to Suppression, Not Expression

Make no mistake about it, we are still losing people. We are temporarily lulled into complacency because of a downward trend in national fire death…

Fire Safety Fire Suppression Systems

Hollywood Training

The 1 3/4-inch attack line was pulled to the base of Fire Station No. 2's stairway and flaked out prior to advancing up the stairs…

Firefighter Training

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

There are no things in our world that are pure black or pure white, but rather all have varying shades of gray. Roger Lunt paints…

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Fire safety education display makes impact with videotape

Since the cause of nearly every destructive fire throughout the centuries can be traced to some form of human carelessness, it is imperative that public…

Fire Service Career Firefighter Training

Cost-effective backup alarms add to safety

Last year, 117 firefighters died in the line of duty, a 5.5% increase over 1983. And, according to statistics, a large number of these firefighter…

Fire Safety

EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Team Equipment is now marketing various safety tool kits for hazmat units. These tools, designed to protect against spark and explosion risks, are produced from…

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