FE Volume 141 Issue 2

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Chemical Suit Procedures

Chemical Suit Procedures

Hazardous materials are the two words most certain to draw a crowd anywhere two or more firefighters gather to bat the breeze. People talk about getting a couple of chemical encapsulating suits and hanging out their shingle as a haz-mat team.
HazmatTechnical Rescue

Step Forward, Fall Backward

There's a bill pending in the House of Representatives, H.R. 3704, that could have a far-reaching impact on America's fire problem. It definitely would have had an effect on the lives of the more than 400 Americans who've died in hotel and motel fires in the past five years. But as it's written, I cannot support it. The bill would require every hotel and motel (and other transient guest lodges having more than five rooms to rent) to install adequate smoke detectors and an automatic sprinkler system.
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MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

Fogfighter, a spray nozzle from Enerjee Inti., is described in a six-page color brochure from the company. Fogfighter's nozzle settings are diagrammed; charts show its flow capabilities and its throw per foot at various pressures.
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Haz-Mat Commitment

As interest in hazardous-materials response accelerates, fire service members should pause to understand how their performance affects themselves and others. Both individual firefighters and their departments have certain responsibilities.
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Searching Above the Fire

Searching Above the Fire

This can be one of the most difficult and dangerous operations at a structural fire. Success depends on training, size-up, and the educated imagination, aggressiveness, and courage of the searchers. Here are some tips that can increase your chances for safety and success.
Firefighter TrainingSearch Operations
COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

March 2-4—"Superior Leaders Make It Happen" is the theme of the 19TH ANNUAL NORTHWEST FIRE SERVICE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR. Topics at the seminar, which will be held in Portland, Ore., include "Administering the Labor Agreement," "Disaster Management—A Comparative Analysis," and "An International Perspective on the Fire Service—European Emphasis." Bob Ely, immediate past president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, will present the keynote address, "The State of the Fire Service." Contact Gary Holt, Eugene Fire Department, 55 N. Seneca St., Eugene, OR 97402; (503) 687-5425.
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EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Kiddie Litter, available from Dixie USA Inc., transforms a regular stretcher into one for an infant or child. The spineboard has side rails for easy lifting and transport. It's made of shock-resistant plastic and has Velcro closures.
Firefighting Equipment
Jessica’s rescuers are commended by NFPA

Jessica’s rescuers are commended by NFPA

The rescue of trapped toddler Jessica McClure last October has prompted a lot of people to express praise for the Midland (Texas) Fire Department, from Vice President George Bush, who visited the town, to letter-writing strangers.
Technical Rescue

APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Chimney fires are one of the most common types of run during winter for the Shirley (Mass.) Fire Department, and previously, the department responded to those calls with ground ladders. The May 1987 delivery of an aerial ladder truck, Captain Gerard Wheeler says, will help make these operations a lot easier to perform. In addition to the 75-foot aerial ladder, the department's Pierce Manufacturing Inc. unit carries a 40and a 35-foot, three-section ladder; a 28-foot two-section ladder; 20-and 16-foot roof ladders, and a 10-foot folding ladder.
Fire Apparatus
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

I just read, in your December 1987 issue, the story of another tragedy, entitled "Order to Disorder." Of course it's too bad that we only publicize our failures. However, it's even worse when we only publicize a part of our failures. It seems that all progress in the American fire service is based upon failures.
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NVFC says it can’t support a House bill on hotel sprinklers

NVFC says it can’t support a House bill on hotel sprinklers

A House bill that would require the installation of fire sprinklers in hotels and motels proposes to penalize the wrong people for noncompliance, says the National Volunteer Fire Council. [Fire Engineering has taken a similar position; see the Editor's Opinion on page 6.]
Fire SafetyFire Suppression Systems

Out from Under a Cloud

The residents of Morristown, a city of 20,000 in northeastern A Tennessee, awoke on the morning of September 2 last year and saw a dense fog covering a large part of the west end of town. It wasn't the familiar, early morning fog that it seemed, but a cloud of chlorine caused by a leak in a pair of one-ton tanks connected together through a manifold at the Morristown Water Filter Plant.
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Chemical Data Notebook Series #21: Hydrogen Chloride

HazmatTechnical Rescue

Staff

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Control Room

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A stipend boosts membership in a N.J. volunteer department

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Steering Column Extrication: Across the Front

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SARA In All Its Simplicity

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FIRE ENGINEERING

HazmatTechnical Rescue

Preincident Planning for Pesticide Fires

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