MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

AERIAL DEVICE INSPECTION FLYER

Independent Testing Laboratories offers a flyer explaining its complete, nondestructive testing program for fire departments to meet NFPA guidelines lor testing aerial ladders, elevating platforms, and ground ladders. Circle No. 50 on Reader Service Card

RADIO CASE-SELECTING GUIDE

“A (iuide to Selecting Two-Way Radio ( ascs” from A AX Enterprises. Inc. includes descriptive photos, illustrations, and a seven-point specification chart. Design options, construction techniques, considerations for corrosive environments, and maintenance are discussed.

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DISPLAY FOR WEATHER STATION

Climatronics Corp. offers the new TACMET Hand Held Display for its TACMET Weather Sensor, creating a self-orientating weather station. The four parameters available are horizontal wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and relative humidity. The display is powered by eight AA batteries. Circle No. 52 on Reader Service Card

NAME PLATE CATALOG

Seton Name Plate Cat ‘s Fall-Winter 1991 232-page catalog contains signs, tags, labels, traffic control, safety products, temporary traffic control signs, and more. Also included are recycling enforcement, safety incentive, lockout/tagout, and rightto-know signs, labels, and related products.

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FIRE SAFETY DEVICE CATALOG

System Sensor, A Division of Pittway Cat., offer a 20-page catalog covering its line of commercial and industrial fire safety devices. Included in the four-color catalog are descriptions and ordering information for smoke detectors and modules, duct deectors, sprinkler system monitoring and indicating products, and related accessories.

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AERIAL PLATFORM BROCHURE

Grumman Emergency Products, Inc. offers a brochure on its Aerial Cat aerial platform. It pictures, describes, and gives specifications on the aerial’s features such as a spacious platform, improved platform pivot, and safety.

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ICS TRAINER FLYER

Innovative Computer Simulations’ offers a fiver on its ICS Eire Training, an interactive computer training package. The package contains four modules: instruction, scenario, testing, and game. The ICS package provides structure fire scenarios that the user must evaluate and decide what incident command system to apply. Ordering information is included.

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SUPPORT VEHICLE BROCHURE

Hackney and Sons, Inc. offers a brochure on The Commander™, a support services vehicle for the fire service. The Commander™ can adapt to a range of applications, such as a haz-mat support or a service and command vehicle. The brochure lists features and specifications of the unit.

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ANTENNA TOWER CATALOG

Aluma Towers Co., Inc. offers a catalog on its communications antenna towers. Specifications and pictures of telescoping, wallmounted, guyed, fixed, vanmounted, and trailer-mounted models are included.

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ONE-PIECE CABA SYSTEM BROCHURE

A brochure from ARAN Fire & Safety, Inc. pictures and describes its SOLO one-piece compressed air breathing apparatus (CABA). The SOLO has a monoshell design for total head protection that encompasses a helmet, breathing apparatus, and communications. The helmet provides flame resistance and Hash protection in exposures of 10 seconds at up to 1,832°F,

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TRAINING MATERIALS CATALOG

International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA) offers a four-color catalog describing its line of fire service training materials. Manuals, publications, videos, and other items are featured. Topics of the materials include self-contained breathing apparatus, aerial apparatus, the company officer curriculum, pumping apparatus, and EMS.

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ALUMINUM BOAT CATALOG

Munson Manufacturing, Inc. offers an 8-1-page catalog featuring aluminum boat technology. Munson offers a line of industrial and utility vessels, including emergency response, oil pollution control, passenger, pilot, cargo, dive, survey, patrol, and fishing boats Models are available in lengths from 21 to 72 feet and can be outfitted in many ways.

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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.