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March 20-23—Fire Department Instruction Conference: Annual Conference, Memphis, Tenn. For further information, contact Edward McCormack, secretary, International Society of Fire Service Instructors, P.O. Box 88, Hopkinton, Mass. 01748. April 11-12—Safety Council: 46th Annual Regional Safety and Fire Conference and Exhibit.
ARSON INVESTIGATION, Robert E. Carter; Glencoe Publishing Co., Inc., 17337 Ventura Boulevard, Encino, Calif. 91316; 286 Pages, $13.95. After defining the current arson problem, the author discusses motives and the part that both fire fighters and fire departments can play in the detection of suspicious fires and preserving the scene so that when the arson investigator reaches the scene, there is something left for him to investigate.
80 Fire Service Products—Fire-End & Croker’s 96-page fire service catalog, No. 178, is now available. It presents a new look and new content including eight lines of FireEnd’s own hose, brass, clothing and a complete stock of accessories. Special attention is given to new products coming into demand such as smoke detectors, new rescue tools, automatic style fog nozzles and Nomex fire coats.
Arkansas Fire Training Academy—Weekday Courses: Fire Service Photography, Feb. 5-9; Basic Fire Pump Operations, Feb. 12-16; Fire Service Instructors, Feb. 19-23; NFPA Hazardous Materials Seminar, Feb. 26-March 2. Weekend Courses: Basic Fire Pump Operations, Feb. 17-18. For further information, contact the Arkansas Fire Academy, Southern Arkansas University, Technical Branch, Camden, Ark.
Training—for fire fighters, company officers and chief officers—will be stressed at the Fire Department Instructors Conference in Memphis Monday through Thursday, March 19-22. Speakers at the general sessions, held during each of the four mornings,
An aggressive interior attack and the use of master streams were part of the tactics used by the Los Angeles City Fire Department to control a difficult delayed alarm fire in Dearden’s department store at 7th and Main Streets in downtown Los Angeles.
An early morning fire in the Huntington, N. Y., Fire District on the first floor of a two-story, wood-frame building occupied by two families, resulted in the death of the first-floor occupant. The residents of the second floor had purchased a battery-operated, ionization-type smoke detector while they lived at a previous residence.
As you are probably aware, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration is now called the United States Fire Administration (to us a much stronger sounding title). This administration will soon become part of the newly established Federal Emergency Management Administration. In all likelihood the administrator for this new agency will be Gordon E. Vickery, an excellent choice. Vickery, as the former chief of the Seattle Fire Department, brings an intimate knowledge of the fire fighting service to this job.