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FE Volume 147 Issue 8

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DISASTER PLANNING AND OPERATIONS

This earthquake was a true test of our department’s members, apparatus, equipment, training, and planning. If experience is deemed to be the best teacher, we must have learned well through the past years of disasters. The priorities established by an emergency organization for disaster management are the following:

Fire Apparatus

Emergency Communications

After the Northridge Earthquake was felt at the LAFD Operations Control Division (OCD)-its emergency communications center, located in City Hall East-the department went into Earthquake…

Fire Apparatus

The Rescue of Salvador Pe–a

One of the defining moments of the Northridge Earthquake was the rescue of Salvador Peña from beneath the collapsed Northridge Fashion Center parking structure. Peña…

Technical Rescue

Putting CSUN Back on Its Feet

The Northridge Earthquake damaged virtually every building on the 350-acre Cal State University at Northridge (CSUN) campus. The damage was so extensive, in fact, that…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

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Report from Battalion 15

The epicenter of the January 17, 1994, earthquake in the Northridge area of the San Fernando Valley was located approximately in the center of Battalion…

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MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

Nordic Track has available a brochure and flyers describing the benefits of its patented skisimulation exercise machine. Also included are personal testimonials from users and…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

EMS Operations

Within a minute after the Northridge Earthquake struck, the City of Los Angeles Fire Department went into the Earthquake Mode, a preplanned degraded dispatch implemented…

Fire EMS Firefighting

THE LOGISTICAL CHALLENGE

At 0900 hours on January 17, I was designated division logistics officer by Valley Command. I assigned Battalion Chief Hugh Tucker as head of the…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

THE CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE FIRES

At 0755 hours on January 17, I was directed by Battalion Chief Larry Schneider to respond with my three Tac Team engine companies to the…

Firefighting Structural Firefighting

LOGISTICS IN LOS ANGELES: A TWO-PRONGED APPROACH

Satisfying the logistical resources needed during the emergency response to the Northridge Earthquake required a coordinated effort between LAFD firefighters assigned to Logistics Command and…

Fire Apparatus

Automatic Fire Sprinkler System Performance

Automatic fire sprinkler systems (AFSS), like other structural and building components, suffered various degrees of damage as a result of the Northridge Earthquake. Whether the…

Fire Safety Fire Suppression Systems