FIRE ENGINEERING
6 EDITOR’S OPINION
Our Worst Day
8 VOLUNTEERS CORNER
Too Little Too Late
12 TRAINING NOTEBOOK
A Thermal Pane in the Glass
15 READER SERVICE CARD
18 THE RESCUE COMPANY
Air Bags, Part I
22 DISPATCHES
National Mechanics Exam • USFA Targets Child Firesetters • Hotel/Motel Safety Act On the Move
24 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
88 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Chemical Data Notebook Scries #37-Methyl Chloride
94 APPARATUS DELIVERIES
96 EQUIPMENT DIGEST
118 MANUFACTURERS’LITERATURE
120 COMING EVENTS
124 TRAINING AIDS
125 CLASSIFIEDS
128 RANDOM THOUGHTS ON…
Firefighting Myths
FIRE PREVENTION/PROTECTION
28 PROMOTING YOUR Some successful ideas to market the worth of fire prevention
DEPARTMENT and education efforts to the overall budget maker-the
ROBERT K. TOTH public.
31 COMMUNITY RISK The “perfect” fire protection system is one in which capabili-
AND CAPABILITIES ties exactly meet the risks to the community. How big is the
ANALYSES gap between your resources and your risks? Do you know?
RICK RISDON
51 FIGHTING FIRE A California fire protection district shares its successful anti-
WITH FIRE arson programs.
PETER KRONK, BILL HAGER,
AND LARRY TITUS
54 NURSING HOME FIRE: An Illinois district fire marshal tells how disaster was averted
A SUCCESS STORY as a direct result of his department’s emphasis on fire
STAN J. SZPVTEK, JR. prevention and inspection and education efforts.
STRATEGY & TACTICS
40 CLIMBING AN Approximately forty percent of firefighter falls-the deadly,
AERIAL LADDER disabling falls-are from elevations. Here are the do’s and
VINCENT DUNN don’ts of this dangerous action.
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
57 THE TIES THAT BIND The weakest links in any building are its connections, and FRANCIS L. BRANNIGAN they must be understood by structural firefighters.
DISASTEER MANAGEMENT
63 OPERATIONAL incident management is more than putting a square peg in a
DECISION MAKING square hole. This first part of a series outlines the decision
DAVID M. LESAK making needed to bring the ICS to full effectiveness
85 FIRE LOSS Part three of a series that examines the entire loss-manage-
MANAGEMENT ment picture.
FRANCIS L. BRANNIGAN
FIRE INVESTIGATION
70 THE ARCHEOLOGY Some very interesting parallels can be drawn between these
OF FIRE INVESTIGATION two disciplines.
CHARLES G. KING AND SHELLY KING
FIRE S CIEN CE
75 FIRE INVESTIGATION TEXTS: HOW GOOD ARE THEY?
DAVID M. BIRK
This critique of available literature encourages prevention and inspection specialists to come to the fore and bring our texts out of the dark ages.
