FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

March 1981 Volume 134 No. 3

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

10 Volunteers Extinguish Gas Well Fire, Protect Drilling Rig in 9-Hour Battle

12 Buildings Burned at Former Arsenal to Eliminate Any Trace of Explosives

20 Small Texas City Demands Sprinklers in High-Rises

22 Trash Containers Create Fire Threat

24 Breathing Apparatus Safety System Includes Lab Tests and Inspections

26 OSHA Standards for Fire Service

33 Product ID Numbers Soon to Appear on Hazardous Materials Placards

38 Residential Fire Prevention Viewed From Many Angles at USFA Meeting

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

45 The Round Table

46 Fire Schools and Seminars

49 Coming Events

52 Fire Equipment Digest

55 From the Publisher’s Desk

56 Advertisers’ Index

57 Reader Service Card

10 Gas well fire

12 Arsenal buildings burned

24 Breathing apparatus safety system

33 Hazardous materials placards

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.