FE Volume 140 Issue 5

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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Seven of these FMC pumpers have been delivered to Stations 1, 13, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 41 of the San Antonio (Texas) Fire Department. According to Assistant Chief Charles Anaya, the department also operates 50 pumpers, 20 aerial trucks, six brush trucks, two snorkels, and two crash trucks. The new units are constructed on a Spartan chassis and have Detroit 8V92 diesel engines with Allison HT-740 automatic transmissions.
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Vertical Foam Insulation: Defeating the Firestop

A relatively new and popular method of insulating private and small commercial structures is defeating the concept of firestopping. It involves the application of foam insulation boards to the exterior of the structure's framing or sheathing before new siding materials are installed.
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COURSES/COMING EVENTS

COURSES/COMING EVENTS

May-September—The National Fire Academy is sponsoring more than 280 FIELD COURSES at various locations throughout the United States. The courses include Preparing for Incident Command, Commanding the Initial Response, and Fire Apparatus Purchase and Maintenance. Contact the Federal Emergency Management Agency, P.O. Box 70274, Washington, DC 20024. May 28-29—Lamar University Fire and Safety Institute will conduct a 16-hour HAZARDOUS MATERIAL INCIDENT AND ANALYSIS CLASS (HM-I) at the Beaumont (Texas) Fire Training Grounds.
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Safe inns are in demand with volunteers

Safe inns are in demand with volunteers

The National Volunteer Fire Council has decided to demonstrate that fire safety begins at home—or in your hotel room, if you're on the road. As a national voice for the United States' 1.5 million volunteer firefighters, the NVFC says it will schedule its board of directors' meetings only in hotels and motels that have smoke detectors in the guest rooms.
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Echoing praises for Portland’s ECHO

The disaster drills that Portland, Ore., conducted in April and September of last year [see “Portland Fire Bureau Disaster Drill,” Fire Engineering, April 1987] has earned kudos from the Chemical Manufacturers Association.
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Between Emmitsburg and Capitol Hill

Between Emmitsburg and Capitol Hill

Both the national fire service and a union local representing federal employees are buttonholing members of Congress about developments at Emmitsburg, Md., home of the National Fire Academy and, for the moment, the U.S. Fire Administration.
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EQUIPMENT DIGEST

The firefighter's compact holster from Espoir Co. houses small items in one convenient place. This holster fits securely on the hip to allow easy access to tools, a folding pocket spanner, a mini-light, and a four-inch lockblade knife. Circle No. 7 on Reader Service Card
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Peter Pirsch finds new owners, who leave its bankruptcy woes behind

Peter Pirsch finds new owners, who leave its bankruptcy woes behind

Peter Pirsch, the Kenosha, Wisc., apparatus manufacturer known as the Cadillac of the industry, is back in business with a slightly altered name and a drastically altered management team. Five new owners have paid a total of $1.6 million for Peter Pirsch & Sons Co., which had been family-owned throughout its 129-year history.
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MANUFACTURER’S LITERATURE

MANUFACTURER’S LITERATURE

Loughlin Enterprises is offering literature describing its new Ladder Beacon. Developed by a firefighter, this mercury-switch-activated strobe light is a dependable aid to the firefighter in locating the means of egress, a ladder. When placed on the tip of an aerial, Ladder Beacon also assists the operator in determining proper location and positioning.
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Residence Fires: Starting in the Cellar

One of the least appealing tasks a firefighter ever faces is to go underground to extinguish a fire. The transmission "Be advised: The fire is reported in the cellar" often makes the adrenaline flow just a bit faster. Because most of us live in areas where private dwellings dominate the structural population, I will confine my remarks to cellar fires in single-family occupancies.
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Shelved Humanity

Incinerator fires were a plague to us. When we were experiencing 30 to 40 responses a day, we could always count on six or more of them to be time-consuming, frustrating garbage-chute fires in the urban high-rises that stood in the rubble of recently burned-out, fourto six-story apartment buildings in Brooklyn's Brownsville section. Trash not burned or emptied on the weekend stacked up in the incinerator chute for many floors.
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Ground ladder test goes another round in the NFPA standards process

Ground ladder test goes another round in the NFPA standards process

It will be at least July before fire departments using pre-1984 ground ladders get a partial and temporary reprieve from newer, more stringent testing standards. With the equipment costing in the thousands of dollars, some departments have been finding the 1984 version of the National Fire Protection Association Standard 1932, "Use, Maintenance, and Service Testing of Fire Department Ground Ladders," an expensive proposition.
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Defensive Riding

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Apparatus Safety from Front… …to Back

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Chemical Data Notebook Series: Calcium Carbide

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Collapse on Adelphi Street

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Staff

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Safe Celebrations

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Visual Aid

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Command Presence

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Hepatitis-B: Preventive Medicine for Emergency Responders

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FIRE ENGINEERING

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