Staff

Staff

JERRY W. LAUGHLIN

Editor

JACKIE COX

Associate Editor

DOROTHY P. FERGUSON

Managing Editor

LINDA MCCAULEY

Editorial Assistant

WILLIAM F. KNAB

Art Director

CONSULTING EDITORS

Doug Forsman

Warren E. Isman

Gordon Routley

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Joe Bachtler

Gene Carlson

CORRESPONDENTS

Bradley Anderson, Jay K. Bradish,

Cliff Dektar, Lowell Ludford,

R. L. Nailen, Dave E. Williams

FIRE ENGINEERING (ISSN 00152587), September. 1983, Vol. 136, No 9. Member. American Business Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published monthly by Technical Publishing, a Company of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. John K. Abely, President. EXECUTIVE. EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES: 875 Third Avenue, New York. N.Y. 10022. Printed in Easton. Pa. 18042.

Subscriptions: Solicited only from paid or volunteer, Federal, state, county and local fire officials, including military and industrial fire protection engineers and consultants. Publisher reserves the right to refuse nonqualified subscriptions. Address correspondence regarding subscriptions, including change of address, to: FIRE ENGINEERING, 875 Third Avenue. New York, N.Y. 10022. Please include your zip code and, in case of change of address, a copy of old address label. Single copy price: S3.00. Directory issue $4.00. Subscription rate for those in field of publication: U S. and U S. possessions: $14.95 a year. $26 00 for two ‘ears. $36.00 for three years Canada: $18.95 a year. $34 00 for two years. $48.00 for three years. Foreign: $27 00 a year, $49.00 for two years. $65.00 for three years. Single copy price $6.00. Directory issue $8.00 Second class postage paid at New York. N.Y. 10001. and at additional mailing offices. Printed in U.S.A. Trademark* in US. Patent Office. © Copyright 1983 by Technical Publishing, a Division of Dun-Donnelley Publishing Corporation, a Company of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage retrieval system without written permission of the copyright owner. Prices for bulk reprints of articles available on request.

The publisher, on written request, will refund that part of the price applying to unfilled portion of the subscription if service is unsatisfactory.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Fire Engineering, 875 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022.

M. RICHARD VINOCUR Group Publisher

GLENN D. USDIN Sales & Marketing Manager

JANET KLIPPER Administrative Assistant

JoANNE HUGHES Production Manager

ELSA MARRERO Circulation Manager

Technical Publishing

a company of

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation

New York, N. Y 10022—(212) 605-9400

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.