FIRE ENGINEERING
April 1985
Volume 138 No. 4
DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL 6
There are no volunteer politicians
VOLUNTEERS CORNER 8
Pump operators or lever pullers
TRAINING NOTEBOOK 10
Tips for better training programs
DISPATCHES 16
Tanker fill time halved ^Aviation fire safety scholarship Firefighters rehab own trucks
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 13
COMPANY NEWS 64
NAMES IN THE NEWS 64
COURSES/COMING EVENTS 65
EQUIPMENT DIGEST 68
APPARATUS 70 INNOVATIONS/DELIVERIES
CLASSIFIEDS 72
TRAINING AIDS 74
READER SERVICE CARD 75
FEATURES
PRE-PLANNING
RISK ANALYSIS 20
Fire suppression forces are never called in the best of times. And with the ever-present threat of cutbacks in fire service resources, risk analysis, a course developed by the National Fire Academy, could be a method of measuring the full extent of the loss if we all didn’t show up.
BY WILLIAM J. TOMES
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
COLLISION ACTIVATES DISASTER PLAN 26
A major accident in Benicia, CA, involving a passenger car and two trailers carrying molten sulfur set up a tragic chain of events. It also reinforced the value of having a dependable disaster management preplan and a constructive critique of the incident.
BY HANK A. HOWARD
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
FLAME SPREAD ENHANCED BY FINISHES 36
The spread of fire on interior finishes can be devastatingly rapid. Just because buildings have been constructed under effective codes and have been properly inspected doesn’t mean that you can take their safety for granted.
BY FRANCIS L. BRANNIGAN
FIRE REPORTS
CARELESSNESS CAUSED $10 MILLION FIRE 40
Congested exposures, severe weather conditions, inadequate water supplies, and flying brands tested the strategies of the incident commander at this Hoboken, NJ, fire.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
BY GLENN P. CORBETT
FIRE FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE 44
An earthquake has the potential to initiate a series of incidents that can damage structures and urban lifelines. The possibly disastrous problem of fire spread following a major earthquake is one that emergency service personnel must be prepared for.
BY CHARLES SCAWTHORN
MEDICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN DISASTERS 61
When disaster strikes, the physician is put in a totally different situation than that which he is accustomed to. The management of mass casualties at disaster scenes and the role that the medical community can take to assist the situation is addressed in this article by a member of
the medical profession.
BY JAMES C. COLEBERD
STRATEGY AND TACTICS
MODEL INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM 52
The importance of size-up for directing your forces in an efficient and effective operation at the emergency scene is addressed in this ninth article on the National Fire Academy’s model incident command system.
BY BURTON W. PHELPS and EDWARD J. MCDONALD
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