COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

APRIL 14—INCIDENT MANAGEMENT IN A SMALL

DEPARTMENT, a teleconference presented by the Volunteer Firemen’s Insurance Services, Inc., in cooperation with members of the National Fire Service Incident Management Consortium, will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The program, available to anyone with a movable dish satellite, will be broadcast through WITF (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) through the C-Band Satellite-Galaxy 7, Channel 5. Contact: Tamela Bourne or Scott Davidson at VFIS, (8(X)) 233-1957.

APRIL 16-23—A seven-day seminar on ROPE WORK, sponsored by Rigging for Rescue, will Lx* conducted in Wilmer, British Columbia. Contact: Rigging for Rescue; the technical ropework seminar; P.O. Box 399; Invermere, British Columbia, (Canada VOA 1KO; (604) 342-6042.

APRIL 17-20 -Kauai, Hawaii, will be the site of the SECOND INTERNATIONAL FIRE SPRMKLER CONFERENCE, sponsored by the National Fire Sprinkler Association, Inc.; P.O. Box l(XX); Patterson, NY 12563; (914) 878-4200.

APRIL 18-22—Roco is sponsoring RESCUE HI ASK CONFINED SPACE/STRUCTURAL RESCUE, a 40-hour course. It will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Contact: Roco Industrial Rescue Training and Equipment; 8254 One Calais Ave., Suite 240; Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3450.

APRIL 23—New Jersey Metro Fire Photographers will hold its 9TH ANNUAL PHOTO NlGHT at Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park, NJ. Contact: New Jersey Metro Fire Photographers at (201) 288-5197.

APRIL 25-29RESCUE II-ADVANCED CONFINED SPACE/STRUCTURAL RESCUE, a 40-hour course, will be conducted by Roco in Vancouver, British Columbia. Contact: Roco Industrial Rescue Training and Equipment; 8254 One (Calais Ave., Suite 240; Baton Rouge, LA 70809.3450.

APRIL 25-29 AND MAY 2-6 AIRCRAFT RESCUE FIREFIGHTING I AND II, 40-hour courses to lx held on these respective dates, are being s|x)nsored by the Louisiana State University Firemen Training Program. Contact: LSU; Firemen Training Program; 6868 Nicholson Dr.; Baton Rouge, LA 70820; (504) 766-0600.

Fin Engineering editorial advisory board member Francis L. Brannigan, author of Building Construction for the Fire Service, will be presenting a series of seminars on BUILDING CONSTRUCTION in the coming months.

MAY 15

SAN FRANCISCO, CAIJFORMA

National Fire Protection Association Prv-CxMileretHr Info: (8)) 344-3555

MAY 21-22

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COUJMMA

Fin Academy Justice Institute Infix Paul Smith, (604) 222-36,30.

MAY 28-29 ROSOURG, OREGON

Douglas City Fin* District #2 Infix Qiid Mike I lanson, (503) 673-7876

Dave McGlynn and Brian Zaitz

The Training Officer: The ISFSI and Brian Zaitz

Dave McGlynn talks with Brian Zaitz about the ISFSI and the training officer as a calling.
Conyers Georgia chemical plant fire

Federal Investigators Previously Raised Alarm About BioLab Chemicals

A fire at a BioLabs facility in Conyers, Georgia, has sent a toxic cloud over Rockdale County and disrupted large swaths of metro Atlanta.