FIRE ENGINEERING
February 1983
Volume 136 No. 2
Training for Hazmat incidents … See page 42
RESCUE/EMS
COMPETITION: Two reports on skill contests that were found to motivate higher levels of training. The positive results are certain to show up in the field.
16 HEAVY RESCUE
A New Jersey team won this year’s rescue contest at the International Rescue and Emergency Care Conference in Baltimore.
16 ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT
As part of the annual Clinical Conference on Pre-Hospital Emergency Care held in Orlando, this contest was added “to link training to real events in the field.”
28 TRAPPED IN A SWAMP
A loaded chicken truck ran off the road into an Alabama swamp, and rescuers had to submerge crates of live chickens to form a bridge to the trapped driver.
FIRE REPORTS
22 $90 MILLION FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS
This arson fire was started in an unguarded demolition site, where walls were opened up over high piles of combustible debris.
TRAINING
33 COME ONE, COME ALL
A local facility provides training for fire fighters from municipal, volunteer and industrial departments in this country, Canada, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
36 THE NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY
Legislation creating it passed in 1974, but it took a while before the system became fully operational. Now the students are saying that it was worth the wait.
50 LOCAL DEPARTMENTS FORM TRAINING GROUP
By pooling resources, nine Connecticut departments have been able to purchase more training aids and operate a joint library.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
42 TRAINING PERSONNEL TO HANDLE HAZMAT INCIDENTS
Where hazardous materials incidents do not occur frequently, experience is likely to be scarce, Warren Isman reports. So training needs to be reinforced on a continuing basis.
DEPARTMENTS
6 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK Hazardous Materials, continued
10 VOLUNTEERS CORNER Lloyd Layman’s Theory
12 LETTERS
46 FILMS
48 SCHOOLS
51 EQUIPMENT DIGEST
57 FROM THE PUBLISHER
58 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX
59 READER SERVICE CARD
