FIRE ENGINEERING
August 1982 Volume 135 No. 8
THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877
features
6 The Editor’s Opinion Page
22 Fires in Multiple-Family Dwellings Present Special Challenges to Chiefs
29 The First-Alarm Chief at Mercantile and Warehouse Fires
35 Chief Has Many Areas of Concern at Single-Family Residential Fires
43 Computer-Aided Instruction: It Has a Place in the Fire Service
48 Nonthreaded Couplings Save Time
51 Going Back to Basics: Reconsider the Function of a Fire Company
56 The Process of Making Decisions at Hazardous Materials Incidents
64 Not Enough Water, So Fire Guts 1.2-Million-Square-Foot Warehouse
72 Outside Box of Hose Lines Offers Station Protection
76 Delayed Alarm at Church Fire Leads to $13 Million Conflagration
79 Two Fire Fighters Are Killed at “Routine” Training Session
IAFC Conference
83 Philadelphia … Is for Feasting
87 See Philadelphia
91 Conference Program
92 Conference Personalities
103 Where to Buy-1982 Equipment Directory
departments
8 The Volunteers Corner
12 Fire Schools and Seminars
15 Coming Events
17 National Fire Academy
21 Letters to the Editor
133 From the Publisher’s Desk
134 Advertisers’ Index
135 Reader Service Card
22 Fires in multiple-family dwellings
29 Mercantile and warehouse fires
56 Decisions at haz-mat incidents
76 $13 million church fire
