FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

January 1980 Volume 133 No. 1

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

24 Hazardous materials program

32 Tanker crash

39 Laboratory hazard potential

97 Bridge fire

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

24 Railroad Goes to Fire Departments With Harzardous Materials Program

28 ISFSI Hears Report on Lubbock Deaths

32 Gasoline Tanker Crash Fire Confined

39 Hazard Potential at Hospital Labs Calls for Comprehensive Safety Plan

40 Old Aid Unit Rejuvenated as Fire Prevention Van

43 Handling Pipeline Incidents Requires Plans for Minimizing Injuries, Damage

46 Use of Donations to Improve Service Told in Brochure

49 Assessment Center Designed to Rate Battalion Chiefs on Handling Duties

52 Canvas Strip Aids Effective Operation of Smoke Ejector

97 Truck Crash Fire Creates Problem on 7-Mile Bridge

105 Company Officer’s Duties Defined, Evaluated at ISFSI Fall Conference

116 Pre-Fire Plan Pays Off at Furniture Store Blaze

55 1980 FIRE SERVICE CATALOG

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

10 Letters to the Editor

12 The Round Table

16 Fire Schools and Seminars

18 Coming Events

100 Apparatus Deliveries

118 The Book Shelf

122 Fire Equipment Digest

130 Manufacturers’ Literature

135 From the Publisher’s Desk

136 Advertisers’ Index

137 Reader Service Card

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.