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RAPID WATER RESCUE

Austin, TX, one of the most flash-flood prone areas in the nation, demands that its fire department be proficient with rapid water rescue techniques. This high level of efficiency is accomplished through sound judgment, thorough subject knowledge, and calm nerves.

Technical Rescue Water Rescue

Agriculture Rescue Management

When responding to an agricultural incident, emergency personnel often encounter many complex problems. No two agricultural situations are exactly alike. But, there is enough similarity…

Technical Rescue

Helicopter Safety for EMS Personnel

The helicopter is becoming a frequently used tool by the Emergency Medical Service (EMS). Soon, even the most remote fire department or EMS agency will…

Fire EMS Firefighting

COURSES/COMING EVENTS

September-November 1986- The SCHEDULE OF 1986 COURSES being offered by the New Jersey State Fire College is available by writing to the New Jersey State…

Fire Service Career Firefighter Training

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MAGNUM FORCE A Potential Firefighting Nightmare

While years of experience, education, and training can't guarantee exemption from the exceptional fire situation, they can help to prepare a fire company to successfully…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Refurbish Your Apparatus

The dictionary defines "refurbishing" as: polish up again, do up anew, brighten, renovate. The only part of the definition that I disagree with is "do…

Fire Apparatus

Sometimes there is a need to Prune the Tree

George, the leadership consultant who was conducting a group of seminars for volunteer fire chiefs drew three diagrams on the chalkboard (see Figure 1). "Can…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Staff

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

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Dive Rescue Series: Dive Team Trainees Learn to Make Rescue a Reality

On June 3, 1985, six Ulster County, NY, deputy sheriffs embarked on an in-water rapid deployment search and rescue training program. The 13-day, 165-hour course…

Technical Rescue Water Rescue

Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear

Last month, I had a point to make. I wanted to bring comment on the litigious society we've created—even in the firefighting industry. JLI Webster…

Fire Apparatus

Correction

In Frank Brannigan's "High-Rack Storage" article (May 1986, page 32), it was erroneously printed that "Liftslab concrete buildings, with precast wall panels, are very common—and…

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

After reading the April 1986 issue of FIRE ENGINEERING, I feel compelled to respond to the article written by Robert Aldrich and Charles McKusick regarding…

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