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Fire Fighters Modernize Station Without Using Township Funds
During the last 2½ years, Washington Township in Allen County, Ind., has made $250,000 worth of improvements to township facilities. Most of these improvements were to the fire department and all of them were financed by donations or grant money. No township tax money was used.
Volunteers Convert Jeep To Inexpensive Minipumper
When the need for a minipumper became apparent, the cost of getting either a new or used vehicle impelled the Piney Green Volunteer Fire Department in Midway Park, N. C., to convert a surplus military Jeep for half the cost of a used minipumper. The 1¼-ton Kaiser Jeep our department obtained through our local civil preparedness coordinator serves a dual role as a minipumper and a grass and woods fire truck.
Sulfuric Acid Cloud Over Baltimore
A pinhole leak in a discharge pipe of a 4X10-foot sulfur-trioxide tank at a Proctor & Gamble plant on the Baltimore, Md., waterfront developed into a low-lying sulfuric acid cloud which affected an estimated 300,000 residents of Baltimore City and Baltimore County last January 4.
Coupling Standard
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has published the fifth edition of its standard for safety on couplings for fire hose, UL-236, titled “Couplings for Rubber-Lined Fire Hose.” Copies of UL,-236 are now available from the Publications Stock Department, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., 333 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook, Ill.
FIRE ENGINEERING
FIRE ENGINEERING, May, 1978, Vol. 131, No 5. Member, American Business Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations Published monthly by Technical Publishing Company, a Division of Dun-Donnelley Publishing Corporation, a Dun & Bradstreet Company. James B. Tafel, Chairman, John K. Abely, President. EXECUTIVE, EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10019. Printed in Easton, Pa. 18042.
Platform Designed To Put Foam Atop Oil Refinery Tanks
One of California’s oldest and largest oil refineries has solved a fire protection problem caused by recent expansion by acquiring a 125-foot elevating platform with foam capability. The 900-acre Chevron refinery in El Segundo, just south of Los Angeles International Airport, was opened in 1911.
Rural Fire Fighters Face 6000-Gallon Gasoline Spill
Many rural fire departments accustomed to grass, house, and barn fires find themselves underequipped when faced with flammable liquid spills amounting to 6000 gallons. Such was the case along Interstate 80 near Meridian, Idaho, last November 8. But a mutual aid arrangement and plenty of common sense made the handling of a dual tanker truck rollover seem almost routine.
Apparatus Finds New Life In Phoenix Hall of Fame
Both foreign and American antique fire apparatus are displayed in the Hall of Flame in Phoenix, Ariz. Sponsored by the National Historical Fire Foundation, the fire museum houses hand pumpers, steamers and automotive apparatus. An exquisite hose reel carriage, built about 1870, was reserved for parades.
Firemen Salvage Lives Of Youthful Offenders
“These kids lack parental guidance. Often they come from broken homes, a split family. They may be involved with drugs. They can relate to a fire fighter as somebody stable in society who provides a big brother or father image and gives them a chance to rap.” That’s how Dick Mascarenas, training center instructor for the San Jose, Calif., Fire Department, described the Firefighter Youth Assistance Program (FYAP) begun in 1976 in cooperation with local juvenile probation officials.