FIRE ENGINEERING®

FIRE ENGINEERING®

March 1980 Volume 133 No. 3

28 Construction

42 Buddy breathing

45 Hollywood blaze

46 Arson prooram

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

28 New Types of Construction Require Rapid Opening Up, Larger Streams

35 14 Women Die as Fast-Spreading Fire Destroys Old Boarding Home in Ohio

36 LSU Inaugurates Certification Plan for Fire Fighters

39 2-Team System Puts Maximum Effort Into Rescue Work at Residential Fires

42 Different Technique for Buddy Breathing

43 Carbon Fibers Raise Fireground Problem

44 How to Make Storage Box for Power Saw Blades

45 Hollywood Blaze Destroys Former Fire, Police Station

46 Federal Arson Programs Reviewed at Fifth Annual USFA Conference

54 Born of Necessity, EMS Is Viewed as Child With Problems to be Solved

55 National Fire Academy Offering Courses at Four Locations

55 San Jose EMT-1 Project Training 600 Personnel

56 How Citizens Evaluated Joplin, Mo., F.D.

64 Canadian Buffs Set Up Fire Prevention Exhibits

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner Inline pumping decisions

10 Fire Schools and Seminars

17 Coming Events

22 The Round Table Funding EMS

52 Apparatus Deliveries

60 Fire Equipment Digest 63 Names in the News

68 Manufacturers’ Literature

69 From the Publisher’s Desk

70 Advertisers’ Index

71 Reader Service Card

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.