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Annual Index Important To Us and Our Readers
The end of the year is sort of a pausing time for practically everybody. You wonder where you are, where you are heading and how you are going to get there. You also tend to look back at where you were and what you did—particularly what you did.
We got to thinking about this latter item while browsing through our editorial index for 1978 which you will find in the back of this issue. Dorothy Ferguson, our managing editor, assembles this index—no small job and one that our readers greatly appreciate. The index headings run from “Aircraft” to “Youth” and in between you can find what the fire service and Fire Engineering is all about.
“Arson” received a lot of attention this year (14 items in the index) as is only fitting for a crime whose statistics keep mounting and whose burden falls mainly on the shoulders of the fire fighter and particularly the fire chief.
Hazardous Materials”—use, transportation and how to handle at a fire— was another subject covered in depth (15 items) and one like arson that has increasingly drawn the attention and services of the fire fighter, often with tragic results.
Then, there were the doings in Washington that related to the National Fire Academy (seven items) and its parent, the NFPCA (now the United States Fire Administration).
It is interesting to note that the word “Fire” appears so frequently in the index—“Fire Codes,” “Fire Prevention,” “Fire Protection,” “Fire Stations,” and “Fire Reports.” “Fire Reports,” according to our readers is one of the popular items in our editorial mix. Other items run the full gamut of the activities, tools and equipment that should constitute a magazine that calls itself the Journal of the Fire Protection Profession. Without feeling smug, we feel that our editors have done a good job for the year 1978.
So, with this thought may we extend to you our Season’s Greetings and heartiest well wishes for the New Year.
