FIRE ENGINEERING
September 1984
Volume 137 No. 9
DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL 6
Minimum safety standards aren’t always enough.
VOLUNTEERS CORNER 8
Effective Use of Pumpers
TRAINING NOTEBOOK 10
Building Construction: Void Spaces
DISPATCHES 46
Group homes repeat tragic story
LETTERS 14
COMING EVENTS 82
SCHOOLS 82
APPARATUS 84
INNOVATIONS/DELIVERIES
SPECIAL PUMP SECTION 86
EQUIPMENT DIGEST 89
NEWS 92
CLASSIFIEDS 96
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX 97
READER SERVICE CARD 99
FEATURES
STRATEGY AND TACTICS
MODEL INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM 17
Determine the amount of manpower required at an incident for effective fire suppression.
BY BURTON W. PHELPS and EDWARD J. MCDONALD
SPECIAL RISK FIRES
THE LOCAL PHARMACY FIRE 24
The potential for hazardous material incidents and deadly fire disasters is as close as your neighborhood drug store.
BY RICHARD E. DOZIER
MANAGEMENT
DELEGATION FOR GROWTH AND SURVIVAL 32
By providing for growth in the managerial ranks of subordinates, the volunteer department will eventually have a chief who won’t spend his whole two-year term learning the job.
BY HUGH J. CAULFIELD
WATER SUPPLY
TANDEM PUMPING 38
Establishment of an effective water supply is vital to practically all successful fire suppression operations.
BY JAMES E. LESNICK
FIRE PREVENTION
MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY FIRE DEATHS 42
Regulations and code enforcement can be the key to reducing these too often encountered incidents.
BY JOHN G DEGENKOLB
CONSIDER YOUR AUDIENCE 52
A unique fire prevention program brings home the lesson of gearing programs to meet the special needs of particular audiences—in this case, group homes.
BY CATHERINE M. YOUNG
TRAINING
TESTING HIGH-RISE SOPs 57
Reliance on the building’s fire protection systems and interior emergency operations are of primary importance.
BY BRADLEY ANDERSON
ARSON INVESTIGATION
WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING AT? 64
Increase the value of your photos in a fire investigation as well as in a courtroom.
BY JOSEPH F. BENYO
STATEWIDE SMOKE DETECTOR BLITZ 72
What began as an idea for a smoke detector awareness campaign expanded into a $500,000 advertising program funded completely by donations and ingenuity.
BY ROBERT L. GARRISON
