FIRE ENGINEERING

FIRE ENGINEERING

February 1978 Volume 131 No. 2

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

14 Inspections Avert Nightspot Tragedy

16 Homemade Brush Truck-Tanker

18 Weird Is the Word For Things People Do When Flames Crackle

20 Preconnected Foam Line Has Eductor

22 Fatal Blast Comes With Surplus Tank

26 How Sirens Vary as Attention-Getters

32 Speedy Flames Win at N. J. Racetrack Despite Fire Plan, Drills

40 Now Seldom Used, Pompier Ladder Was Once First Line Rescue Tool

42 ISFSI Plans Conference in Memphis March 19-20

43 FDIC Plans 22 Afternoon Workshops

44 Planning, Cooperation Vital to Fire Protection in Jails

52 Training, Equipment Needs of Arson Investigation Team

departments

8 The Round Table Fire prevention benefits

10 The Volunteers Corner Remember straight tips

47 Fire Schools and Seminars

48 Fire Equipment Digest

54 Coming Events

55 From the Publisher’s Desk

56 Advertisers’ Index

57 Reader Service Card

16 Brush truck-tanker

20 Preconnected foam line

22 Fatal explosion

32 Speedy flames win

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.