Detector Videotape

Detector Videotape

A videotape to motivate fire fighters to seek to get smoke detectors into every home has been released by the United States Fire Administration. The 37-minute color tape discusses type of detectors, installation, testing and causes of false alarms.

Produced for the USFA by The Hartford Insurance Group, the videotape features Captain Dennis Ozment of the Minneapolis Fire Department. Ozment for the last year has been on loan to the USFA and has been presenting three-hour smoke detector seminars to fire fighters. The videotape condensation of his seminar presentation is available for $50 from the Fire Instructors Association of Minnesota, 3105 42nd Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn. 55406

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.