FE Volume 134 Issue 12

The Latest

FEMA Launches New Campaign for Smoke Detectors

FEMA Launches New Campaign for Smoke Detectors

A year-long campaign to get smoke detectors into the homes of those who need them most has been launched by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). Aimed at minorities, the elderly and the handicapped, the campaign that started during Fire Prevention Week is based on the theme, “Smoke detectors save lives—don’t stay home without one.”
Fire PreventionFire Safety
Fire Schools and Seminars

Fire Schools and Seminars

Advanced Arson Investigation Seminar: Jan. 25-29. For further information contact Lt. James D. Persicheitte, Denver Fire Department, 745 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, Col. 80204. Aircraft Crash and Mass Casualty Management: Arizona State Univ., Feb. 1-5; Sept. 13-17. For further information contact William H. Allen, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Arizona State Unive., Tempe, Ariz.
Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training
Manufacturers’ Literature

Manufacturers’ Literature

80 EMS Training Equipment—EMS Products has published a catalog covering its line of emergency care training equipment and supplies. The catalog includes information on adult and infant CPR manikins, anatomical charts, injury simulation kits, childbirth manikins, intravenous training units, textbooks and specialized CPR manikin repairs and modifications.
Firefighting Equipment
Films

Films

SKILLS FOR SAVING LIVES ACT Foundation, Basking Ridge, N.J. 07920; color, 50 minutes divided into 5 modules; video, $155; 16mm, $380. How to administer CPR in a variety of circumstances is the subject of this film. It describes how CPR should be performed when alone, and with two rescuers, and clearing obstructed infant and adult airways.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

More FE Volume 134 Issue 12

Names in the News

Names in the News

Dr. B. J. Thompson, former superintendent of the National Fire Academy, has been nominated by President Ronald Reagan as administrator of the U. S. Fire Administration, according to FEMA. It would be Thompson’s job to oversee programs focusing on fire prevention. Formerly, Thompson was chief of the Santa Ana (Calif.), Fire Department and later city manager there.
Fire PreventionFire Safety

Principles of Effective Relays With Large-Diameter Hose

The use of large-diameter hose to get water to the fireground has made a drastic change in rural fire fighting. With 4 and 5-inch hose, rural fire departments are getting enough water on the fireground to make aggressive attacks on fires that years ago called for defensive tactics. With the ability to put 600 to 1000 gpm or more on the fireground, rural fire departments consider mounting a blitz attack instead of merely protecting exposures.
Firefighting EquipmentHoselines

From the Publishers Desk

It’s the season to be jolly and it’s also the season to wonder what’s ahead as the new year makes its debut as 1982. The general state of the economy and the termination of revenue sharing by the federal government will affect the decisions of fire chiefs.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Fire Equipment Digest

Barebo, Inc. has introduced the Otterbine Chief, a self-priming, floating pump. The pump can operate in as little as 3 inches of water and requires no suction hose. It works off a four-cycle, air-cooled Briggs & Stratton engine. One three-quart tank of gas will last up to two hours at full throttle. The pump housing and impeller are lightweight, non-corrosive aluminum castings, while the polyurethane shell float is virtually unsinkable.
Firefighting Equipment

Cincinnati Church Hit by Arson Fire Just Before Sunday Services Began

Fire was discovered in a Cincinnati church last July 19 just minutes before Sunday services were to begin. Extraalarm fire companies soon had to be called to assist undermanned crews fight the $150,000 blaze. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined, but according to Fire Investigator Steve Hillman, it may be arson.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
staff

staff

RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Editor JERRY W. LAUGHLIN Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor GRACE LESSNER Editorial Assistant
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

After Rapid Growth, EMS Looks To Future With Less Federal Money

“Emergency medical service has become the mainstream of the American fire service,” says Jim Page, a former battalion fire chief and now executive director of the Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation. Page was speaking at the Born of Necessity EMS management seminar conducted in Cincinnati Oct. 21 through 23.
Fire EMSFirefighting
On a Happy Note

On a Happy Note

When the New York Fire Department held its annual memorial service this fall, there was a happy note that seldom is heard. For the first time since 1965, no New York City fire fighter died in the line of duty during the preceding 12 months. That is really an enviable record in a city that has more fires than any other city in the nation. Chief of Department John Hart mentioned during the memorial service that since he joined the department in 1954, 256 fire fighters had died in the line of duty in New York City.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Spike Pierces Girl’s Arm After Fall

Fire EMSFirefighting

Philadelphia Fire Department Opens New Training Facility

Firefighter Training

$10 Million Spent for Aerosol Plant Fire Safety

Fire Safety

Arson Investigation Aided

Fire PreventionFire Safety

$1.3 Million Addition Dedicated By Delaware State Fire School

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Need for Accurate Records Described at IFPA Meeting

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Fatal Fire Extinguished With 1 1/4-Mile Relay of 5-Inch Hose

Firefighting EquipmentHoselines

National Fire Academy

HazmatTechnical Rescue

Elderly Receive Detectors

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

FAMD Officer Elected

Fire Apparatus

Maxim Resumes Operations

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

We Must Be Alert to Hopes Masquerading as Fire Safety

Fire Safety
1 2