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FE Volume 141 Issue 2

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A stipend boosts membership in a N.J. volunteer department

The Fort Lee (N.J.) Volunteer Fire Department had a problem not uncommon to other departments: declining membership. However, fire officials believed that in many cases members were quitting because of Fort Lee's price tag.

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Control Room

Disaster planning and emergency operations have risen in priority for many municipalities, especially in the “earthquake country" of the Far West. As cities replace older…

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Staff

250 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001—(212) 481-5771 Editor THOMAS F. BRENNAN Managing Editor GLORIA STURZENACKER Assistant Editor SHEILA SMITH

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Chemical Data Notebook Series #21: Hydrogen Chloride

A person will not, voluntarily, stay in an atmosphere of hydrogen chloride, due to its sharp, pungent odor and taste. That makes its detection—at as…

Hazmat Technical Rescue

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Chemical Suit Procedures

Hazardous materials are the two words most certain to draw a crowd anywhere two or more firefighters gather to bat the breeze. People talk about…

Hazmat Technical Rescue

NVFC says it can’t support a House bill on hotel sprinklers

A House bill that would require the installation of fire sprinklers in hotels and motels proposes to penalize the wrong people for noncompliance, says the…

Fire Safety Fire Suppression Systems

Letters to the Editor

I just read, in your December 1987 issue, the story of another tragedy, entitled "Order to Disorder." Of course it's too bad that we only…

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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Chimney fires are one of the most common types of run during winter for the Shirley (Mass.) Fire Department, and previously, the department responded to…

Fire Apparatus

Jessica’s rescuers are commended by NFPA

The rescue of trapped toddler Jessica McClure last October has prompted a lot of people to express praise for the Midland (Texas) Fire Department, from…

Technical Rescue

EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Kiddie Litter, available from Dixie USA Inc., transforms a regular stretcher into one for an infant or child. The spineboard has side rails for easy…

Firefighting Equipment

Out from Under a Cloud

The residents of Morristown, a city of 20,000 in northeastern A Tennessee, awoke on the morning of September 2 last year and saw a dense…

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Searching Above the Fire

This can be one of the most difficult and dangerous operations at a structural fire. Success depends on training, size-up, and the educated imagination, aggressiveness,…

Firefighter Training Search Operations