A superior learning resource!

A superior learning resource!

I am a cadet with the Allan Hancock Fire Academy in Santa Barbara, California, and soon will be graduating from a nine-month night fire academy. As a cadet and firefighter candidate, I realize the importance of maintaining a higher level of knowledge if I am to become a firefighter. Which I will! Firefighting is the greatest job in the world. That`s why I read your magazine. It has in-depth articles that cover all the operations I need, and more. I use this information to stay up on my studies, do reports, and make me the best firefighter candidate I can be. I have received other periodicals that I feel should take lessons from Fire Engineering. I appreciate your magazine and am looking forward to my next issue. I will make sure to send you another thank you when I am hired. Keep up the good work.

Aaron J. Clark

Firefighter Candidate

Carpinteria, California

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.