FE Volume 163 Issue 2

>> Members of the local Chinese community raised $42,000 to benefit the LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CA) FIRE DEPARTMENT (LACFD)’s fallen firefighter families, presenting two checks to LACFD Fire Chief Deputy John Tripp. The Master Won Ko Yee International Cultural Institute donated a $30,000 check, which will be equally shared by the families of fallen Fire Captain Ted Hall and Firefighter Specialist Arnie Quinones, who were killed on August 30, 2009 while fighting the Station Fire. The United Relief Committee donated a $12,000 check to benefit the Firefighter Memorial Committee to help the surviving family members of the Department’s other fallen firefighters.

>> Florida’s ALDRIDGE-BENGE FIREFIGHTER SAFETY ACT was unanimously passed as law by the Florida House and Senate on December 13, 2009. The act requires the owners of commercial, industrial, and multiunit residential buildings (three or more units) in Florida to mark their property with an emblem to warn firefighters of lightweight floor and roof truss construction, which are prone to early collapse under fire conditions. The act was named in the memory of two Orange County, Florida, firefighters who died in a gift shop collapse, which featured such components.

On March 13, 1964, there was a terrible murder in Queens, New York: A young woman was stabbed to death while dozens of citizens stood by and did nothing. The young woman’s name was Catherine “Kitty” Genovese. The 28-year-old Genovese was coming home from work; as she approached her apartment building, she was brutally attacked and stabbed to death.

>> The Hannay F4000 SERIES REEL is designed to cut response time and increase safety. It is ideal for all firefighting applications and offers quick payout time, a compact design that accommodates restricted space, and a removable crank rewind or powered chain and sprocket drive. Hannay Reels manufactures hose and cable reels for both OEM and aftermarket applications, offering thousands of standard models, along with a wide range of custom design capabilities.