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TESTING BUILDING FIRE PUMPS

An important component of a building’s emergency equipment, the fire pump requires an acceptance test and annual testing per NFPA 20, Installation of Centrifugal Fire Pumps and NFPA 25, Inspection, Testing and Maintenance of Water Based Extinguishing Systems to ensure that it will respond and perform in a fire emergency.

Building Construction Fire Safety

TRUCK COMPANY DRILLS AT ACQUIRED STRUCTURES

In almost every fire district there are vacant structures about to be torn down to make way for development. Instead of allowing these buildings to…

Firefighter Drills Firefighter Training

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I would like to compliment Associate Editor Mary Jane Dittmar on her article “Juvenile Firesetting: An Old Problem Gets a New Look” in the December…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

OSHA COMPLIANCE: WORD TO THE WISE

In the early morning hours of September 16, 1991, the Windsor Locks (CT) Fire Department responded to a challenging incident involving an overturned tractor trailer…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

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The Art Of DISCIPLINE

Discipline is the thread that runs through all fire service functions. Without it, a department could not function. Discipline in radio communications is one of…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #70: HYDRAZINE

Hydrazine is an extremely reactive, corrosive, flammable, toxic, oily, fuming liquid with an odor similar to ammonia. One of the most hazardous chemicals in use…

Hazmat Technical Rescue

APPARATUS DELIVERIES

In Louisiana, the Jefferson Parish Fire Department protects a population of about 250,000 within a 26-square-mile area. The department hies in service three quintuple combination…

Fire Apparatus

COMPANY NEWS

ROBERT BARRACLOUGH. vice president of emergency products for SPAN INSTRUMENTS in Plano, Texas, has been elected president of the Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association (FAMA), in…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

FIRE ENGINEERING

Park 80 West, Plaza Two, 7th Floor Saddle Brook, NJ 07662 Tel. (201) 845-0800, Fax (201) 845-6275 Editor William A. Manning Managing Editor Diane Feldman…

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REALISTIC TRAINING EXERCISES

It is a beautiful sunrise as you and other firefighters drink warm coffee and eat jelly donuts. There is no hose to pick up and…

Firefighter Training

CROWD CRUSH INCIDENTS

The fire inspector, normally concerned with fire safety in places of public assembly, often becomes involved in issues of crowd management. It is important, therefore,…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

SOPs: KEY TO GOOD LEADERSHIP

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are among the fire officer’s greatest tools. A functional definition of an SOP was developed by Chief Alan Brunacini in his…

Firefighter Tools Firefighting Equipment