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Chemical Data Notebook Series #24: Hydrogen Fluoride

Both etched glass and frosted glass can be quite decorative, a welcome addition to a person's china cabinet. But the material used to do the decorative work, hydrogen fluoride, is very unwelcome in a spill situation. Exposure to the material, in either gas or liquid form, could lead to serious illness or injury, and in some cases, death.
HazmatTechnical Rescue

Car Fires: Too Often Taken for Granted

Each day across North America, firefighters are dispatched with a message such as this: "Engine 1, a car fire, Aaron Avenue and Kendra Court; a car fire, Engine 1." How often are these calls taken for granted and the numerous hazards of a vehicle fire overlooked?
Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training
Circular Power Saw Safety

Circular Power Saw Safety

Circular power saws provided a significant advance in offensive structural firefighting tactics when they were introduced in the late 1960s. Unfortunately, they're also responsible for some painful, disabling injuries during operations.
Firefighter ToolsFirefighting Equipment

An Open Letter

Dear Boston Fire Department: I apologize. There are many photographs of fire operations that are submitted to magazines without any supporting stories. They are spectacular and, in truth, most are of defensive operations that are taken from great distances.
Firefighter TrainingMagazineSearch Operations

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Injury-related deaths are on a downward trend, federal agencies report

Injury-related deaths are on a downward trend, federal agencies report

Midway through a national campaign to reduce injury-related deaths, statistics indicate that some of the objectives are being met. Representatives from several federal agencies, including the U.S. Fire Administration, met last year to assess the status of injury prevention objectives set in 1979.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Firefighter Risk in Nonresidential Occupancies

Seventy-three percent of all structure fires in 1986 occurred in residential occupancies, the National Fire Protection Association reports. Given those statistics, fire service leaders, much to the detriment of the firefighters in their charge, may overlook the hazards that operations in nonresidential occupancies pose to firefighters.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Assessment Centers and the Courts

Assessment Centers and the Courts

The legal challenges to assessment centers have been somewhat different from the challenges typically made to more traditional promotion tests. They've also been fewer in number. Supporters of assessment centers might suggest that this is a result of their greater usefulness and validity, but critics might argue that, due to a number of unresolved issues, the conclusions about assessment centers should not yet be drawn.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

Safety Storage Inc. announces the availability of a four-page color brochure describing its line of relocatable safety storage buildings for chemicals and haz mats. The brochure addresses the construction and safety features of the buildings.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
COMPANY NEWS

COMPANY NEWS

Detroit Diesel Corp. has opened six regional sales offices within the United States and Canada. William E. Johnston is the regional vice president for the Eastern region, which is based in Red Bank, N.J. The Southeast region, headed by regional vice president Paul T. Freiwald, is based in Atlanta.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Paradise (Almost) Lost

Power to their lift station pumps gone, their 5-inch supply hose cut, firefighters took refuge under their own apparatus as flames shot uphill out of three densely wooded canyons, across a firebreak, and over their heads.
Fire Apparatus

How to Step on Their Shoes Without Messing Up Their Shine

Performance evaluations aren't easy for anyone involved. Employees want to be well thought of by others, especially their supervisors, so they're apprehensive about being evaluated. And supervisors have a long list of reasons to dislike conducting performance evaluations.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

May 14-15—The Meadowood County (N.H.) Area Fire Department's SEMIANNUAL FIRE SCHOOL will be held at its training center in Fitzwilliam, N.H. Oneand two-day rescue and fire courses will be offered, most from the NFPA 1001 curriculum. For more information, write to the Meadowood County Area Fire Department, P.O. Box 969, Keene, NH 03431-0969, or call (603) 242-3806 or (603) 352-3882.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

A Performance Standard for Promotions

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

Update

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NAMES IN THE NEWS

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EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Firefighter ToolsFirefighting Equipment

Substance Abuse Testing

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FIRE ENGINEERING

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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Fire Apparatus

Developing an Assessment Center

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Letters to the Editor

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Training Fires: Lessons vs. Risks

Firefighter Training

Emergency Response To Questions on AIDS

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