Fire Department Award

Fire Department Award

The Camp Pendleton, Calif. Fire Department recently received the Allen G. Ogden Award, given for outstanding structural fire department (large) and the outstanding structural fire department (overall). The award was presented during the Navy Fire Protection Associations’ annual meeting in Memphis.

Established in 1973, the award is designed to be an incentive to improve all fire fighting capabilities in the Navy and Marine Corps.

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.