FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

September 1982 Volume 135 No. 9

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

16 Citizen Fire Prevention Group Celebrates 30th Anniversary

22 HUD Standard Improves Safety in Mobile Homes, Survey Shows

28 Volunteers Cut Off Boat Yard Fire Despite Winds and Exploding Tanks

32 13-Ft. Ladder Gets to Topmost High-Rise Floors

36 Good Public Relations—More Important Than Ever

38 Two Fire Fighters Killed Trying to Ventilate Roof

40 Entire Buildings Are Labeled With NFPA 704M Marking System

42 Winds Sweep Fire Through Anaheim

44 Put Mailing List For Fund Raising In a Microcomputer

46 New Inspection Program Tracks Hazardous Materials

departments

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

8 Letters to the Editor

10 Fire Schools and Seminars

18 The Volunteers Corner

50 Fire Equipment Digest

56 Films and Slides

56 Coming Events

57 From the Publisher’s Desk

58 Advertisers’ Index

59 Reader Service Card

28 Boat yard fire

42 Wind-swept fire

44 Microcomputer

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.