FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

February 1981 Volume 134 No. 2

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

12 Fire Fighter Dies in Fall Through Roof at L.A. Blaze

17 Fire After Gas Explosion Destroys Half Block of Commercial Buildings

21 Boy Scout Program Clears Hydrants After Snowstorms

22 Skylights, Fire Wall Limit Damage

26 Fast-Spreading Fire Destroys Old Factory

29 Multiple-Choice Questions for Tests

36 Threat of Fire In Hill Area Spurs Organization of Volunteer Department

38 To Aspirate or Not to Aspirate AFFF? Tests, Advice Help Answer Question

51 Speaker-Training Program of Ventura County F.D.

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

44 Fire Schools and Seminars

45 Coming Events

45 The Book Shelf

46 The Round Table

48 EMS Operations

50 Manufacturers’ Literature

53 Fire Equipment Digest

57 From the Publisher’s Desk

58 Advertisers’ Index

59 Reader Service Card

12 L.A. blaze

17 Gas explosion

22 Fire wall

36 Volunteer department

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.