FE Volume 131 Issue 7

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Md. Award Program

Md. Award Program

A new program that will honor Maryland’s Fire Fighter of the Year plus individual fire fighters of the year from the state’s more than 300 fire departments is being sponsored by the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company in cooperation with the Maryland State Firemen’s Association. “The program will be open to all fire fighters in the State of Maryland, volunteer and career members including all federal fire departments,” said Roy L. Wood, award program chairman.
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Fire Schools and Seminars

Fire Schools and Seminars

Arkansas Fire Training Academy—Weekday Classes: EMT (120 hours), Aug. 7-25; Apparatus (Pump OP’s), Aug. 21-25; Arson Crime Scene Search (Special), Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Weekend Classes: Apparatus (Pump Op’s), Aug. 19-20. Regional Fire School: Hazardous Materials and the Fire Fighter, Hope, Aug. 7-17; Walnut Ridge, Aug. 14-24; Mena, Aug. 28-Sept. 7. Pre-registration is required.
HazmatTechnical Rescue
Coming Events

Coming Events

August 4-6—Vermont State Firefighters Association—89th Annual conference will be held in Barre, Vermont. For further information, contact Howard C. Dailey, Sec.-Treas., Vermont State Firefighters’ Association, Box 670, Manchester Center, Vermont 05255. Aug. 4-7—The Fire Fighters Association of Ontario:
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Recognize Need to Vent Roof And Open It Up Immediately

One of the most deplorable sights on the fireground is to see a hole put in a roof after the fire problem has been resolved. When vertical ventilation is required, it is needed as part of the initial attack—not as an afterthought. Sometimes I think roofs are opened to assuage the conscience of an officer who knows that he should have ordered the opening made long ago.
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Fire Equipment Digest

Basic Skills for the EMT, a 20-unit audiovisual training program that covers all the basic skill areas in the EMT-A course, has been introduced by Emergency Training Inc. Each unit covers areas that benefit most from audio-visual support. Basic Skills for the EMT is designed to integrate with the EMT-A course, and instructors can use the program for initial training as well as for reinforcement and review.
Firefighting Equipment

From the Publishers Desk

By now, everyone in the fire service, and perhaps in this country, is aware of the toll that arson and particularly arson for profit is taking in lives and money. As our editor said a month or so ago, “This crime threatens the welfare of a community—its homes, its families, its sources of income.”
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The Round Table

The Round Table

Stanley R. Fickes, Chief, Takoma Park, Md.: Montgomery County, which is where our department is located, uses the 911 system. We are tied into an answering point that is shared with the county police. There are delays in our receiving a call due to the following: Our department is located on the boundary line of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.
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Pitfalls in Getting Your Ideas Across

Pitfalls in Getting Your Ideas Across

Communication is hard work, particularly so in the fire service, as amplified by our dual role of daily management/administration tasks in a quasimilitary organization. It takes just as much work to be a good communicator as it does to be a good planner, administrator or fire fighter.
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Putting Preconnects on Old Apparatus

Using a little ingenuity and some basic mechanical skills, members of the Hampden Township, Pa., Volunteer Fire Department installed two preconnected lines on a front-mount pump and put additional preconnected lines on a 1250-gpm pumper and a squad truck. The front-mount pump on our 1000-gallon tanker gave us our greatest problem.
Fire Apparatus

Jeep Converted to Protect Shops Along Boardwalk

Designed primarily for operating on an elevated boardwalk, a police department Jeep has been converted to a fire fighting vehicle by the Wildwood, N.J., Fire Department. All the work of converting the 1969 Jeep to a quick attack apparatus to fight fires in the many shops, restaurants and amusement enterprises along the 14block boardwalk was done by fire fighters.
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JAMES F. CASEY Editor RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor BARBARA E. GOLDBERG Assistant Editor
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Three Buildings Destroyed As Fire Follows Gas Blast

A natural gas explosion that occurred while gas company employees were working in an adjacent excavation caused a fire that destroyed three wood-frame buildings in Greenwich, Conn. The first of several calls reporting an explosion and fire at the Pilsudski Society Clubhouse at 67 Arch Street was received at the Greenwich Central Station watchroom at 2:31 p.m.
FirefightingStructural Firefighting

Fire Protection at Isolated Radar Base

Fire PreventionFire Safety

Planned Attack Works at Jetliner Fire

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2 FPEs Give San Jose Engineering Capability in Fire Protection Decisions

Fire PreventionFire Safety

Fire Fighters Get Credit for Success Of Public Education

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

Insurance Industry Enters Arson Battle

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3 Derailed Alcohol Tank Cars Burn; Shuttle, Pumper Relay Supply Water

Firefighting EquipmentHoselines

1000 GPM in Inline Pumping With 500 Ft. of 4-In. Hose

Firefighting EquipmentHoselines

FIRE ENGINEERING

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Milwaukee Keeps Recruit Standards

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

Three Burning Oil Tanks Extinguished by Volunteers

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Nation’s Largest Wildland Fire of ’77

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