FE Volume 154 Issue 11

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Just a routine water leak?

Just a routine water leak?

The call was for a water leak in an apart-ment on the second floor of a four-story apartment building. It had been raining heavily for the past three days and the ladder company had responded to numerous water leak calls during the deluge
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Firefighting
Controlling unignited liquid fuel spills

Controlling unignited liquid fuel spills

Any fuel spill has the poten-tial to be very dangerous to emergency responders, bystanders, and the environment-for example, the fuel can enter storm drains, waterways,…
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Firefighting
World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks

World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks

For a preliminary account and a list of Fire Department of New York firefighters confirmed dead or listed as missing at press time, see Fire…
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Firefighting
Killing firefighters with “Business as usual”

Killing firefighters with “Business as usual”

Six weeks after the September 11 murders, the incessant talk of getting back to "business as usual" is beyond fantasy.
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Firefighting

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Getting Better, Not Bitter

Getting Better, Not Bitter

Though the horror of the past weeks is still unthinkable, now is the time for firefighters to accept responsibility for the call to action placed…
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Firefighting Equipment
Public Education: Its time has come, again!

Public Education: Its time has come, again!

It's time to get down to the real root cause of fire in America. The United States has the worst civilian fire death record of…
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Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training
September 11 tragedy

September 11 tragedy

Has there ever been a time when so many firefighters were lost? There probably has been: Dresden, Germany; the sacking of Rome; or maybe the…
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Firefighting
Quick-attack vehicles: industry response tool

Quick-attack vehicles: industry response tool

Industrial response teams use this adapted truck to rapidly flow high volumes of water with minimal personnel
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Firefighter ToolsFirefighting Equipment
Organophosphate Pesticide Exposures

Organophosphate Pesticide Exposures

You arrive on scene to find a 38-year-old female complaining of mild abdominal pain. She states that she vomited several times, starting 45 minutes after…
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Fire EMSFirefighting
Apparatus Deliveries

Apparatus Deliveries

The Squankum Fire Company in Howell Township, New Jersey, purchased this SEAGRAVE "Mean Stick" quint, the company's first aerial apparatus
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Firefighting
Overcoming the residential mindset

Overcoming the residential mindset

Could it be that residential tactics won't or don't necessarily work at nonresidential fires?
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Firefighting
Laminated Beams and Arches

Laminated Beams and Arches

Fairfax County, Virginia, had a fire that started on a rear deck of a townhouse and communicated to exposures on both sides.
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Firefighting

Emergency Communications: The Corpus Christi System

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FirefightingStructural Firefighting

Products/Services/Media

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Firefighter ToolsFirefighting Equipment

Ship firefighting training for personnel

11.01.2001
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Firefighter Training

Tragedy at the Towers

11.01.2001
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Firefighting

Responding to commercial Aircraft Haz-Mat Incidents

11.01.2001
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Aircraft Fire & RescueTechnical Rescue

Driver entrapped in tractor-trailer

11.01.2001
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Fire Apparatus

Comprehensive industrial emergency management

11.01.2001
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Firefighter Training

September 11 Company Donations

11.01.2001
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Firefighting Equipment

Industrial Terrorism: New concerns for Fire Departments

11.01.2001
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Technical Rescue

Digital vs. Analog Radio Systems

11.01.2001
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Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

New uses for foam in industry

11.01.2001
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Firefighting

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