FE Volume 135 Issue 1

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Home-Study Disaster Course

Home-Study Disaster Course

An independent home-study course covering such far-ranging preparedness areas as natural disasters, technological dangers and the threat of nuclear war is being offered to the general public by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The course, offered by mail through the National Emergency Training Center, explains the concept of emergency management and describes the signs and warnings, immediate and long-term dangers, mitigation and preparedness measures and response and recovery tips for a wide variety of emergencies.
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Fire Schools and Seminars

Fire Schools and Seminars

Aircraft Crash and Mass Casualty Management: Arizona State Univ., Feb. 1-5; Sept. 13-17. For further information contact William H. Allen, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Ariz. 85287. California Fire Mechanics Academy, April 5-9, Stockton, Calif.
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ManufacturersÍ Literature

ManufacturersÍ Literature

80 Fire Apparatus—Two brochures are available from J.C. Moore Industries, Fire Apparatus Division. One describes the new Moore-E-Conomy fire apparatus which includes pumper-tankers, tankers, minipumpers and skid units. Also available with it is a series of specification sheets.
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First-In OfficerÍs Decisions Set Pattern for Operations

The first-in officer at a fire bears a particularly high degree of responsibility because his initial decisions should establish the base for an effective strategy for continuing fireground operations. Whether the first-in officer is a company officer or a first-alarm chief, his actions must conform to his department’s standard operating procedures and match what his superior officer would have done if he had been first on the fireground.
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Films and 35 mm Slides

Films and 35 mm Slides

BOMB THREAT PROCEDURE, Film Communicators, 11136 Weddington St., No. Hollywood, Calif., 91601; color, 8 min.; $135. This film demonstrates four basic steps that telephone operators must take to respond to a bomb threat, and is designed to be a training aid in hospitals, industrial facilities and other public buildings.
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From the Publishers Desk

Experience is sometimes a harsh taskmaster, but the lessons learned when the chips are down are well remembered. However, it is not always necessary to undergo an arduous experience to learn these lessons.
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Fire Equipment Digest

Piercing Device Fire Task Force Innovations Inc. is offering the Wallbanger, a carbide-tipped piercing device built into the attack nozzle. Stored in front of the pistol grip as a knuckle protector, the Wallbanger rotates around the nozzle to any position. After the area is pierced, the integral shut-off is opened to produce a 30gpm spray with a 20-foot reach in both directions within the enclosed area.
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Hollywood Fire Station Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Fifty years of fire service in the Hollywood area was recently commemorated by the Los Angeles City Fire Department during luncheon ceremonies at Station 27 in Hollywood. Station 27 was built in 1930 for $178,000 and is one of the largest fire stations in the West.
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Local Service Clubs Can Help With Special Projects Funding

Local Service Clubs Can Help With Special Projects Funding

The operating budget for our rural fire department is made up from two sources, contract revenues from the town and fund raising. But there is never enough money for all the equipment and programs that would make our job easier or help the public.
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staff

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RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Editor JERRY W. LAUQHLIN Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor GRACE LESSNER Editorial Assistant
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Drysdale Appointed to WPI

Drysdale Appointed to WPI

Dougal Drysdale, Ph.D., a fire safety lecurer at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed Connecticut General/Aetna visiting professor in the graduate level fire protection engineering curriculum at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., beginning this month.
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Apathetic Public? Ignorant? Neither?

Apathetic Public? Ignorant? Neither?

How often have we heard and said that the main obstacles to a better fire safety record are apathy and ignorance—that people really do not care about or are unaware of proper fire safety requirements? I argue that, with a few exceptions involving children and fire survival techniques, people are neither apathetic nor ignorant about fire. Let me cite an obvious example of my point. That it is dangerous to smoke in bed is surely one of the most widely known of the fire prevention commandments.
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Allies Where They Count

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Sprinkler Trade Association

Fire SafetyFire Suppression Systems

Another Way To Keep Rope Tangle-Free

Fire Apparatus

“Military Tank Transporter Overturns And Falls Into Creek, Trapping Driver”

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New Uses for Surplus SCBA Cases

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Routine Call To Fireworks; Bombs Found

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Low-Cost Computers For the Fire Service

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National Fire Academy

HazmatTechnical Rescue

“17 Buildings Destroyed, 9 Damaged by Lynn, Mass., Conflagration”

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CHEMTREC Number

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Innovative Detector Program Takes Realistic Approach

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Rescue from Grain Elevator Requires Coordinated Action

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