Coming Events

Coming Events

May 10-12—Municipal Fire Department’s Instructors Association Annual Educational Seminar, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Fee. $120. For further information contact Glen McCord, 41 Pleasant Rd., Guelph, Ontario NlE 3Z5.

May 17-19—National Fire Protection Association, 86th Annual Meeting, San Francisco. For further information contact NFPA, Batterymarch Park, Quincy, Mass. 02269.

May 23-26—Illinois Fire Chiefs Annual Conference, Peoria, Ill. For further information contact H. V. Christiansen, P.O. Box 294, South Beloit, Ill. 61080.

June 24-26—Ohio EMS Combined Assembly, Columbus, Ohio. For further information contact Joan Hesler, 1395 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., Suite 401, Columbus, Ohio 43229.

June 27-30—New England Association of Fire Chiefs 60th Conference, Providence, Rhode Island. For further information contact Chief Arthur R. Gaudet, 16 Woodlawn St., Amesbury, Mass. 01913.

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.