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FE Volume 142 Issue 6

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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Six weeks after the Hatfield (Pa.) Volunteer Fire Company put its new Spartan/Ranger utility truck into service, the truck was sent to all the types of calls for which it was designed: auto extrication, cascade assist, major fire, and haz-mat incident. The 10-man truck, delivered in February, is powered by an L10 300-horsepower Cummins diesel engine and has an MT-647 Allison automatic transmission. The truck carries an eight-bottle, 4500 psi high-pressure cascade system, along with a 5,000 psi Poseiden air compressor;

Fire Apparatus

Operational Decision Making

TODAY’S FIRE SERVICE is changing into a technology management service. The types of incidents with which we are confronted are many. Citizens and elected officials…

Firefighting Equipment

FIRE ENGINEERING

28 PROMOTING YOUR Some successful ideas to market the worth of fire prevention DEPARTMENT and education efforts to the overall budget maker-the ROBERT K. TOTH…

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

FIRE LOSS MANAGEMENT

IN THE LAST COLUMN, we started our discussion of one of the friendly causes of fire: light. Remember that for each cause, we can discuss…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

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AIR BAGS PART I

SINCE THEIR introduction to the fire service in the seventies, air bags have been used in many rescue operations. Because of their unique design, their…

Structural Collapse Technical Rescue

Endowment program provides for visiting scholars/practitioners

Worcester Polytechnic Institute will be opening its classroom doors to experts in fire protection engineering through a newly established distinguished scholar endowment program. Through the…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

A SUCCESS STORY NURSING HOME FIRE

What could have been a major tragedy turned out to be a minor inconvenience for the residents of a southwest suburban Chicago nursing home, thanks…

Fire Safety Fire Suppression Systems

USFA launches educational program focusing on “curious kids”

In an effort to reduce the number of fires started by inquisitive children playing with matches, the United States Fire Administration has developed a program…

Fire Service Career Firefighter Training

EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Telma Retarders will do up to 85 percent of a vehicle’s braking, saving the foundation brakes for when they are really needed. If the engine…

Firefighting Equipment

THE DANGERS OF CLIMBING AN AERIAL LADDER

THE FIREFIGHTER wheels the ladder apparatus around the corner and heads it into the fire block. It is still dark. The streetlights are barely visible…

Aerial Apparatus Fire Apparatus

COMMUNITY RISK AND CAPABILITIES ANALYSES

THERE is an old saying, "If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Does that apply to your fire…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

The Ties That Bind

IN MANY fire departments, connections-political, fraternal, family, religious, or personal - are integral, sometimes essential requirements for promotion or desirable assignments. Such connections are important,…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting