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FE Volume 139 Issue 6

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Sprinkler ordinance in effect

The DeKalb County, GA, Board of Commissioners has passed a sprinkler system ordinance that requires sprinklers to be installed in all hotels, motels, apartment buildings, rooming houses, and dormitories that are constructed there after May 1,1986. The only structures that will be exempt from the new law are oneand two-family dwellings and those designed to accommodate less than 15 persons, said DeKalb County Fire Chief Thomas E. Brown, who worked with the county commissioners and local developers to write the ordinance.

Fire Safety Fire Suppression Systems

Update of the Fire Flow Formula

You pull up to a two-story taxpayer with stores on the first floor and apartments on the second. Fire is showing in one of the…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Call for retrofit of supplied-air respirators

Due to a possible defect in the secondstage regulator, Survivair has initiated a retrofit of certain of its Hip Pac combination SCBA and supplied-air respirators.…

Firefighter SCBA Firefighting Equipment

Training Hints

When the safe second octopus concept was first introduced, the exhalation port was removed from the backup unit. The only purpose served by the exhalation…

Firefighter Training

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Voluntary Compliance

The other day, I was trying to work up some enthusiasm in a group that I was teaching," said George, the leadership consultant who was…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

The Mything Link in Fire Protection

Trying to persuade someone to adopt your point of view is tough enough, but trying to persuade someone who firmly believes a contrary myth is…

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

Vertical Stokes Lower via a Roof System

Consider this situation: A multiple alarm fire in a six-story structure has rendered the interior staircase and fire escape unusable. A severely injured fire victim,…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

An Effective Braking System For Your Apparatus

Most firefighting apparatus gear ratios in the main automatic transmission than do regular trucks and trucktractors. The more powerful engine and high horsepower-toweight ratio found…

Fire Apparatus

Staff

Editor THOMAS F. BRENNAN Managing Editor JACKIE COX Associate Editor AUDREY PAVEY Art Director R. NELSON

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Although fire prevention and education are used together quite frequently, they have not achieved the success that they should have. Fire deaths and damages still…

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

USFA retrofit grant awarded

The United States Fire Administration (USFA) awarded a $250,000 grant to the People's Firehouse, a Brooklyn, NY-based community organization that is active in promoting fire…

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

APPARATUS DELIVERIES

The North Stonington, CT, Fire Department recently placed in service this Saulsbury fast-attack pumper mounted on an 11,000pound Chevrolet chassis. This unit is equipped with…

Fire Apparatus