FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

April 1978 Volume 131 No. 4

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

28 Airlift

35 Time studies

40 Proximity suits

49 Student fire fighters

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

18 Banned PCB in Transformers Is Health Hazard

20 What’s Visible and Safe? It’s Fire Engine Red!

28 Two Airlifted Out of 650-Foot Stack

30 Prefabs Used as Temporary Stations

35 Job Performance Improved by Making Time Studies

36 Fire Service Messages Get Free Billboard Space

38 HQ Station in Bridgeport, Conn.

40 Tests Show Why Breathing Apparatus Must Be Worn With Proximity Suits

46 Tandem Gasoline Tanker Fatal Fire

49 Students Work as City Fire Fighters

50 Young Group of Buffs Aids Interest in Old Apparatus

52 Computerized Dispatching in Brooklyn

55 Universal Friction Loss Formula

59 Readers’ Service File of Manufacturers’ Literature

departments

8 The Book Shelf

10 The Volunteers Corner

12 Coming Events

14 The Round Table

16 Fire Schools and Seminars

25 Names in the News

89 From the Publisher’s Desk

90 Advertisers’ Index

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.