FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

July 1981 Volume 134 No. 7

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

12 Delayed Alarm, Lack of Water Are Factors in Egg Plant Fire

17 Fla. Shopping Center Fire Hit With Aggressive Attack

19 Another Use for Plastic Jug: Keeps Hoisting Rope Ready

20 Special Teams in Memphis Handle HazMat Incidents

22 Excess City Chassis Used to Build New Texas Pumper

24 New Ladder Use at High-Rise Fires

28 Alternate Water Sources Needed at Fire During Severe Drought

36 Using and Improving Fire Data Discussed at NFIRS Conference

40 Volunteers Control Warehouse Fire Before It Extends to LPG Storage

41 ISFSI Conference Oct. 22-25 Aimed at Human Resources

42 Pledge to Continue USFA, Academy Is Made to Metro Chiefs by Giuffrida

46 Two Die After Light Ignites Vapors During Train Derailment Cleanup

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

10 Fire Schools and Seminars

10 Coming Events

15 Names in the News

49 Fire Equipment Digest

55 From the Publisher’s Desk

56 Advertisers’ Index

57 Reader Service Card

20 HazMat team

28 Alternate water source

40 Warehouse fire

46 Light ignites vapors

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.