FE Volume 133 Issue 4

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Cooperation Blends Security With Fire Safety in Prison

Sometimes in casual conversation, I refer to my town as “my cities.” This may seem strange, but there is complete truth in the plural “cities,” because we have an independent city within our city. It has streets, sidewalks, housing (both low level and high rise), industry, warehousing and commercial enterprises such as stores, bakeries, laundries, theaters and repair shops.
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Fire Schools and Seminars

Fire Schools and Seminars

Arizona State University Arson Investigation Courses: Basic, May 19—30; Advanced, June 2—6; Crash Survival investigation, May 5—15. For further information, contact the International Center for Safety Education, P.O. Box 968, Tempe, Ariz. 85281. Arkansas Fire Training Academy, Advanced Rescue, April 21—25; Advanced Protective Equipment, May 12—16; Pump Operations, May 12—16.
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Coming Events

Coming Events

April 29-May 1—Metropolitan Chiefs, IAFC. Annual conference, Doubletree Inn, Tucson, Ariz. For information contact Deputy Chief S. V. Amaro, Tucson Fire Department, P.O. Box 27210, Tucson, Ariz. 85726. May 1-4 Ohio Association of Emergency Medical Services Annual Conference, Dayton Ohio.
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Names in the News

Chief Carl M. Downs retired Dec. 24 as Chief of the California Department of Forestry/Orange County Fire Department. Upon his retirement, Chief Downs was retained by the County of Orange as a Consultant/Director of Orange County’s Fire Program to oversee the orderly transition of fire protection and paramedic services from the CDF to the local level.
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From the Publishers Desk

Regularly we get letters and calls from subscribers who want to know how, or even if, they can submit articles to Fire Engineering. It’s really easy. Just send a type-written manuscript plus some pictures and illustrations to our editor, Jim Casey, at the address listed in the editor’s page of every issue.
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Three-Line Attack Gives Assurance at House Fires

Although most residential fires are extinguished with the use of a single hose line, they are responsible for a majority of the fire deaths in the United States. Furthermore, the National Fire Data Center has estimated that two thirds of the “large fires”—those that spread beyone the room of origin—occur in residential occupancies.
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Fire Equipment Digest

General Pump and Equipment Co. Inc. has introduced the Hydro-Test hydrostatic tester. The portable model 6334 can be used for testing pressures up to 250 psi wherever 110 volt power is available. Electric, gasoline or pneumatic powered models for pressures up to 1000 psi are also available.
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The Round Table

The Round Table

Gregory Drover, Asst. Chief, Durango, Col.: Being in the unique mountainous region 18 miles north of Durango, Col. provides us with a two-fold challenge: medical support for the county ambulance service and rescue for the county sheriffs and state highway patrol.
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Jaws Fracture Fused Mass Of Lexan Bottles Over Fire

A warehouse fire that converted thousands of plastic milk bottles into a hard mass covering remaining fire resulted in an unusual application of rescue and extrication equipment. The Wyckoff, N.J., Fire Department responded to an alarm from the Garden State Farms warehouse on Braen Avenue at 7:37 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, with six pumpers, an aerial ladder and an emergency truck.
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Annual Reports Make Good Public Relations

Every so often we run through a bunch of annual fire department reports that are sent in to us. Some come from a big city, some from a small city and some—not many—from a volunteer department. The purpose behind these annual reports is, or should be, to make points with the town fathers and particularly with the town citizens. The aim, of course, is to get more and better support for the department.
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staff

staff

JAMES F. CASEY Editor RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor ELIZABETH CRIDLAND Assistant Editor ROLLIN NELSON Art Director RUDY FORD Production Manager RAYMOND J. CASTELLANOS Circulation Manager JOSEPH F. COSGROVE Publisher
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2-Train Crash Gives Mutual Aid Plan Initial Test With Accent on EMS Units

Although designed for fires, a mutual aid plan devised by a group of fire departments in Illinois got its initial use when two trains crashed head-on in Harvey. There were two deaths and 48 injuries in the collision, and the rescue problem made it necessary to modify the mutual aid response by calling for more rescue trucks and ambulances and fewer pieces of fire apparatus.
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Readers Service File

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Exposure Protection Is Major Goal As Fire Possesses Vacant Factory

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Water Winch Used To Keep Draft Depth In Portable Tanks

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N.Y. City Fires Decline

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Safety Program

Fire Safety

L.A. City Continues Station Program

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Volunteers Rebuild Wreck, Get Rescue Unit for $6000

Technical Rescue

Thompson Talks About Goals for National Academy

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Falling Ladder Pipe Kills Fire Fighter in Los Angeles

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State Directors Clarify Relationship With National Academy at Conference

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Circul-Air Corporation Marks 40th Anniversary

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