FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

June 1981 Volume 134 No. 6

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

22 Spill

24 Volunteers

30 Ignition

42 Air supply unit

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

11 Hazardous Incident Advice Confusing, Board Charges

22 The Cover Story: Large Spill Ignites After Unattended Tank Overflows

24 Three Volunteer Fire Departments Coordinate Protection of Minn. City

28 Special Tanker-Pumper Carries Two Foam Types

30 Carbonized Wood Ignition Determined in 4-Alarm Fire

33 Railroad Tanker Improves Center’s HazMat Training

34 Fire Protection Engineers Meet, Discuss Problems of Fire in the City

39 Training Program for Volunteers Covers Basics, Remains Flexible

42 New Air Supply Unit for Philadelphia F.D.

44 Fire Tests Conducted to Measure Heat, O2 Levels

48 Fire Departments Surveyed on Employment of Females

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

13 The Round Table

15 Coming Events

18 Fire Schools and Seminars

55 The Book Shelf

57 Fire Equipment Digest

61 Manufacturers’ Literature

63 From the Publisher’s Desk

64 Advertisers’ Index

65 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.