IAFF Media Contest

IAFF Media Contest

The 1981 International Association of Fire Fighters Media Awards Contest, honoring outstanding coverage of fire fighters by journalists and photographers, is directed at items published or broadcast between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31,1980. Entries must be sponsored by a local, state or provincial affiliate of the IAFF.

Prizes of up to $500 in six categories will be awarded to newspaper, radio and television reporters in the United States and Canada.

The categories are: best news or feature story or photograph in a newspaper or magazine with either over or under 100,000 circulation; best TV news or feature story and best radio editorial or public service message about fire fighting.

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.