FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

January 1982 Volume 135 No. 1

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

11 Another Way to Keep Rope Tangle-Free

12 FDIC To Explore ‘New Directions’ March 29—April 1

14 Routine Call to Fireworks—Bombs Found

22 The Cover Story: 17 Buildings Destroyed, 9 Damaged by Lynn. Mass., Conflagration

29 Low-Cost Computers for the Fire Service

34 Hollywood Fire Station Celebrates 50th Anniversary

36 Rescue From Grain Elevator Requires Coordinated Action

38 New Uses for Surplus SCBA Cases

40 Haz-Mat Information Hard to Locate When Three Freight Trains Pile Up

43 Local Service Clubs Can Help With Special Projects Funding

86 Military Tank Transporter Overturns and Falls Into Creek

88 Apathetic Public? Ignorant? Neither?

44 1982 Fire Service Catalog

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

18 Fire Schools and Seminars

90 Films and 35MM Slides

94 Fire Equipment Digest

99 Manufacturers’ Literature

103 From the Publisher’s Desk

104 Advertisers’ Index

105 Reader Service Card

22 Lynn conflagration

29 Low-cost computers

36 Grain elevator

40 Freight trains

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.