FE Volume 146 Issue 4

While some of you may be familiar with weight lifting, you may not know how best to train to gain the specific strength needed for day-to-day tasks on the fireground. Many of you may never have trained with weights on a serious level. Some of you may never have touched a weight. This strength program is for everyone. While this program won’t make a national champion power lifter out of you, it is designed to give the maximum amount of strength and power on a schedule limited by time and equipment. These exercises can be done at a fire station with as little as a barbell and weight bench or at a state-of-the-art gym with all the newest equipment.

A package of fact sheets describing the features, specifications, history, and pricing of the civilian HUMMER, adapted from the combat vehicle the U. S. Army has employed since 1980, is available from AM General Corporation Markets targeted include government agencies that need superior off-road mobility, such as forestry service, as well as fleet and industrial users.

Concern about firefighter hearing loss has grown over the past decade. Many fire departments have recognized this problem, which has become more urgent with the advent of the technological advances of the past 20 years. Among these changes are the replacement of gasoline-powered engines for pumpers and ladder trucks with those powered by diesel fuel; the cab-over-engine design of apparatus, which places the passengers in close proximity to the engine compartment; and the increase in the number of apparatus equipped with both a siren and an air horn.

The following are among the recommendations for reducing noise levels in the Brookline (MA) Fire Department contained in the Local 950, International Association of Fire Fighters “Hearing Screening and Sound Level Survey" (1990). Many of these suggestions are applicable to all fire departments.