FIRE ENGINEERING®

FIRE ENGINEERING®

July 1980 Volume 133 No. 7

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

18 Proper Planning of Special Apparatus Can Coordinate Desires With Reality

21 11-Alarm Fire Overwhelms Sprinklers, Ruins $20-Million Industrial Complex

22 Seattle Opposes U.S. Rule on Radioactive Load Routing

25 Merit Raises Linked to Performance by Fire Fighter Evaluation System

31 Written Fireground Simulation—New Tool for Teaching and Testing

41 Everyone Can Talk in 11-Station Phone Link

42 Weaknesses in Emergency Planning, Mutual Aid Use Aired at Conference

44 Vermont Plan Speeds Aid For Hazardous Incidents

47 240,000 Forced to Flee Chlorine Released in Canadian Rail Wreck

48 Buffs Skip Coffee, Find Other Ways to Be Helpful

50 Trailer-Mounted LPG Fire Trainer

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

10 Fire Schools and Seminars

11 Coming Events

12 Letter to the Editor

52 Fire Equipment Digest

58 16mm Films

59 Manufacturers’ Literature

61 From the Publisher’s Desk

62 Advertisers’ Index

63 Reader Service Card

18 Special apparatus

21 11-Alarm fire

44 Hazardous incidents plan

47 Chlorine released

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.