Tips on Taking Up
We in the fire service spend a great deal of time, or should, training our personnel. Hose stretches, ladder placement, apparatus positioning, search and rescue, etc., all demand long hours on the drill field.
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Identifying Revenge Fires
We have all been called on to mitigate or investigate an incendiary fire. And we have all witnessed or read about the telltale signs of…
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Editor THOMAS F. BRENNAN Managing Editor JACKIE COX Associate Editor AUDREY PAVEY Art Director R. NELSON CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Gene Carlson
Use Quality Text Slides For A Professional Presentation
Have you ever seen a slide presentation that was boring, hard to follow, or seemed to meander from point to point without apparent direction or…
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Correction
A statement, picked up from published reports and run in the November 1985 issue of FIRE ENGINEERING, erroneously stated that the National Fire Protection Association…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I enjoyed the three articles in the May 1985 issue of FIRE ENGINEERING: "Preventing Live Burn Accidents"; "Do You Know Where Your Men Are?"; and…
Drop Dead!
In the past few months, the fire service community has been anticipating a negative attitude from the Federal Government with respect to future funding of…
APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The St. Clairsville, OH, Fire Department recently took delivery of a rescue-pumper built by Sutphen. The unit is built on a custom chassis with aluminum…
Handling A Flammable Liquid Leak and Spill
Washing down a gasoline spill into the ground or into a storm sewer was once an accepted fire department procedure. In his book “Fire Ground…
Garden Apartments—Old Worry/New Package
The condition of the country's economy is evident in many ways. Food prices are up, unemployment rates are down, and colleges are pulling in record…
FIRE ENGINEERING
March 1986 Volume 139 No. 3 DEPARTMENTS EDITORIAL 6 Drop dead VOLUNTEERS CORNER 8 Garden apartments—old worry/new package TRAINING NOTEBOOK 10 Handling a flammable liquid…
EQUIPMENT DIGEST
Blue Water announces the introduction of Superline +PLUS ropes. The doubletwisted core construction makes the +PLUS ropes abrasion resistant and gives them shock-load absorption properties.…
