FIRE ENGINEERING
THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877
features
6 The Editor’s Opinion Page
18 Detectors Give Princeton High Degree of Protection
22 How Simulator Is Used for Training in Fireground Strategy and Tactics
24 Free Detectors Put in Homes of Elderly
27 Wildfire Model Can Help in Predicting Behavior, Assist in Pre-Fire Planning
32 Building Station as House Cuts Cost, Provides for Later Sale as Residence
39 250-Hp, Air-Cooled Diesel Used to Repower Pumper
40 Visible Card File, Map Book Improve Dispatching for Small Department
43 Trenching Roof Is Success in Test on Burning Barn
44 Role Instructors Can Play in Improving Fire Service Cited by FDIC Speakers
53 Air Force’s New Crash Truck Packs 2400-GPM Foam or Water Capability
55 Inner-City Fire Problem Requires Realistic Appraisal of Selling Safety
57 Copter Lifts Ambulance in Field Tests
58 Evacuation Plan Works at Fire in Nursing Home
departments
8 The Volunteers Corner
10 Coming Events
12 Fire Schools and Seminars
14 The Round Table
60 Letters to the Editor
61 Names in the News
62 Fire Equipment Digest
68 Fire Service Catalogs
69 From the Publisher’s Desk
70 Advertisers’ Index
71 Reader Service Card
The Cover: “Spring Cleaning at the Fire Station” by Mel Bolden catches the annual
rite of fire fighters everywhere. Bolden is the artist who will be remembered for his series of Fire Engineering covers that commemorated the magazine’s 100th year of publication.
22 Simulator
32 Residence
40 Visible card file
57 Copter field test