FE Volume 143 Issue 12

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A VIEW FROM “THE RESCUE COMPANY”

A VIEW FROM “THE RESCUE COMPANY”

Rescue ’90 was by far one of the largest and most ambitious training exercises held in recent years. The four-day program continues on, in one way or another, for everyone involved in this excellent training exercise. Congratulations to Tom Carr and his staff for accomplishing the goals and objectives that they started planning more than a year in advance.
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FIRE LOSS MANAGEMENT

There is no national fire protection policy or program, but the federal government is involved in fire protection in many ways. The government is or should be concerned with the fire protection of its own property. Unfortunately, in the past this concern sometimes resulted in efforts to use the federal “Sovereign Immunity” to avoid local codes.
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DISPATCHES

DISPATCHES

The appropriations bill, passed by Congress in October, transfers control of the National Fire Academy from FEMA’s Office of Training to the U.S. Fire Administration. The bill contained other appropriations that will benefit the fire service as well: $334,000 for additional instructors and facilities at the NFA and $125,000 for USFA personnel.
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MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

Sensidyne Inc. offers literature on its precision gas detection systems. Direct-reading detector tubes for more than 200 gases and vapors, portable gas detection instruments, and a portable flame ionization detector artsome of the devices offered.
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MEDICAL TREATMENT AT COLLAPSE RESCUES

MEDICAL TREATMENT AT COLLAPSE RESCUES

As noted by Carlos Castillo’s account of the successful extrication of the trapped Filipino, Mayo, sophisticated medical care administered prior to extrication is often necessary both to expeditiously free the victim and maximize his chances for survival and a full recovery.
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THE VARIABLES OF FLASHOVER

THE VARIABLES OF FLASHOVER

Flashover can be described as the instantaneous ignition of a large area of combustible materials. This “area” may be a single room, a large indoor area, or even a narrow canyon. The important aspect of flashover is that the space must be contained enough to accumulate heat through any combination of convection, conduction, and radiation for the combustible materials within to reach their respective flash points (in the presence of an ignition source) or ignition temperatures.
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RESCUE ’90: THE “BIG ONE”

The call we received was for a series of major structural collapses in the Silver Spring area of Montgomery County, Maryland. Because of very poor communications from the Washington, D. C. area, we were not exactly sure what had caused the disaster.
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PRIVATE-DWELLING FIRES

PRIVATE-DWELLING FIRES

America’s heroes—protectors of life from fire! That’s what we are. Say it loud, feel good about it. So how come we keep losing so many people to fires in private dwellings? These are the smallest occupied structures in our districts, but we still lose about 80 percent of this nation’s civilian death toll —6,000 people— inside these one- and two-story structures.
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CHLOROSULFONIC ACID

Chlorosulfonic acid is a corrosive, oxidizing, water-reactive, toxic, reactive, irritating, colorless-to-light-yellow, slightly cloudy, fuming liquid. It has a sharp, pungent, penetrating odor and is an extremely dangerous material. It is used in the manufacture of catalysts, chemical blowing agents, detergents, dyes, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, pigments, plastics resins, plasticizers, saccharin, surfactants, tanning agents, and many other chemicals and chemical intermediates.
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GIVE ‘EM A CALL

The office is simple, neat, freshly painted but no-frills. On a couple of the walls they’ve left the original red brick showing, the way it was before this former warehouse was converted into office spaces. There’s a couch near the front door and an end table next to it piled with relevant reading material of the fire service, legislative, and industrial kind. The windows on the west side look out over Union Station and the Washington, D.C. railroad yards, and the trains run slowly in and out.
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COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

DECEMBER 10-11 &mash;J.T. Baker Inc.'s Office of Training Services’ HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS SAFETY SEMINAR will be held in San Mateo, California. The seminar covers a wide range of chemical topics including hazard analysis, fundamentals of hazardous chemical safety, labeling, flammable liquids and solids, corrosive chemicals, and chemical waste disposal.
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CORRECTION

CORRECTION

The RTECS number for adipic acid (Fire Engineering, August 1990) is AU8400000. The STCC number is 4966110.
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EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Firefighting Equipment

PREPLANNING WATER SUPPLIES

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ICS FOR RURAL FIRES

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FIRE ENGINEERING

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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Fire Apparatus

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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TAKING THE PRESSURE OFF

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FLASHOVER

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