FIRE ENGINEERING
December 1978 Volume 131 No. 12
THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877
features
6 The Editor’s Opinion Page
22The Cover Story: Rubbish Fire Spreads Through Four-Story Store
27 Sprinkler Head Closes Automatically After Putting Fire Under Control
30 Flammable Liquid and LPG Training Combines Theory With Experience
32300 Rescue 36 Cows Trapped by Barn Collapse
35Poor Tactics May Bring Lawsuits, Speaker Warns ISFSI Conference
38 Model Plans Drawn for Fire Stations to Reduce Costs
40 Vickery Hailed at Safety Conference as Next Leader of U.S. Fire Agency
46 Fire Academy Lists ’79 Courses
47 Vickery’s Views on U.S. Fire Role
52 FDIC Program Arranged for Memphis March 19-22
departments
11 The Round Table Improving life safety
15 The Volunteers Corner Evaluating booster tank use
17 Coming Events
17 Fire Schools and Conferences
55 Fire Equipment Digest
57 Manufacturers’ Literature
58 Letters to the Editor
58 Names in the News
60 From the Publisher’s Desk
61 Editorial Index
64 Advertisers’ Index
65 Reader Service Card
22 Rubbish fire
30 LPG training
32 Barn collapse
47 Gordon E. Vickery
