FE Volume 140 Issue 12

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“Trauma Teddy” offers young victims a sense of security during emergencies

After an October house fire took the life of a young child, a Salina, Kan., paramedic sat down with the two preschool survivors. To encourage the children to talk, a stuffed toy bear named Trauma Teddy joined the conversation, and the painful truth was revealed: They had been playing with matches.
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The Big Fire

Most fire departments find themselves confronting two A types of fires: the fire in a dwelling or small commercial building, and the larger fire that can occur in several different types of occupancies. But many departments are making the mistake of using the same procedures for both.
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MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

A six-page, color brochure available from Pelican Products Inc. describes a variety of protective equipment cases. Cases for medical supplies, communications gear, and precision tools are pictured and described, as well as the cases' special features and accessories.
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Who Is to Blame?

The three caskets holding the bodies of Oakland County, Mich., firefighters were carried on separate fire trucks. About 3,000 firefighters attended the service honoring Marsha Baczynski, Robert Gregory, and Thomas Phelps. The three volunteers died early on a Sunday morning in October when fire burst out of control in a century-old farmhouse, trapping them on the second floor. The fire, as most of us know by now, was a training exercise—a “practice fire" set with flammable liquids.
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Separate pay scale proposed for federal firefighters may be costly

Separate pay scale proposed for federal firefighters may be costly

A California legislator has proposed creating a separate pay schedule for federal firefighters to reduce their work week from 72 hours to 60. But the Defense Department, which employs about 90 percent of the firefighters who would be affected, strongly opposes the measure. It says Congressman Mickey Leland's bill would cost an additional $27.2 million to maintain the same level of fire protection.
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A House bill aims to protect responders from infectious diseases

A House bill aims to protect responders from infectious diseases

Emergency workers face risks every day, but perhaps none is as frightening as contracting an infectious disease from someone they've helped. In response to that possibility and in light of the AIDS epidemic, Congressman Dennis E. Eckart, a Democrat from Ohio, has introduced legislation that would educate and notify emergency workers about infectious diseases.
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COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

January 25-28, 1988—The Maritime Administration will hold a four-day MERCHANT SEAMAN/TERMINAL OPERATORS COURSE in Swanton, Ohio. Basic shipboard firefighting procedures and techniques will be taught; there will be two days of classroom instruction and two days of field exercises. Contact Maritime Administration, Great Lakes Region Marine Fire Training Center, 2600 Eber Rd., Swanton, OH 43558; telephone (419) 259-6362.
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EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Skolnik Industries Inc. has overpack containers for hazardous-waste disposal in sizes ranging from 8 to 96 gallons. The open-head drums have removable, rubber-gasketed covers. Interiors are treated to resist corrosion and to prolong overpack life after disposal. The company's latest addition is the Incin-o-Pak, a fiber container which can be incinerated.
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Interior Pump Pressure Loss

Fire departments using largediameter supply hose are often disappointed or puzzled when, after making the calculations on the blackboard, they're unable to deliver the desired flow through a single outlet.
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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

The Independent Fire Co. of East Brunswick (N.J.)—District No. 2 is getting out of the "paper business" and into computers, so space was an important factor when selecting a fire and rescue truck. The Emergency One unit delivered to East Brunswick this summer has the room for a mobile command center—which will include a remote computer—and much more. The truck's rescue interior has five compartments, and the command center is equipped with radios and a cellular telephone. District 2 transports its high-rise and basic haz-mat equipment and seats 12 firefighters in the new rig.
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

After years of legal bartering, a Gallatin (Mont.) district court jury decided that neither the Rae Volunteer Fire Co. nor the homeowners and their insurance company were negligent in the fire that destroyed the home of Harry and Rosalie Petroff. Had the jury decided against the fire company, a 40-squaremile area likely would have lost its fire protection.
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Order to Disorder

It wasn't yet 10 a.m., but the heat of a summer Tuesday when temperatures in Brooklyn, N.Y., would climb to the mid-90s was already apparent. There were other signs of summer—signs of the role luck would play in a tragic day. Over a bakery on 18th Avenue, an apartment was quiet, its tenants away on vacation. The bakery itself, where a dozen people would normally be at work, was closed. Two doors away, a family had just left an apartment.
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Staff

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Chemical Data Notebook Series #19: Phenol

HazmatTechnical Rescue

Under Pressure

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“Black boxes” track drivers’ performance

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Protecting Residential Construction

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How Much Water Can You Move

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Staying Off the Collision Course

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FIRE ENGINEERING

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