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EQUIPMENT DIGEST

SUCTION UNIT Rockford Medical & Safety Company’s SScort portable suction unit is battersoperated and has a disposable canister to simplify cleanup and minimize the risk of crosscontamination. It is small and lightweight and comes in a durable earning case. Circle No. 10 on Reader Service Card
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DISASTER PLAN PASSES WITH FLYING COLORS

In October of 1989 the Upper Moreland Township (PA) Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution to adopt an interagency emergency operations plan. One hundred days later, a Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in this suburban Philadelphia community.
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FIRE ON THE HIGHWAY

On March 20, 1990 an MC 307 tanker-truck fire shut down U.S. Highway 101 in California. More than 150 personnel from 18 agencies responded to the 18-hour incident, but more noteworthy than sheer numbers was the attitude of the response: This incident clearly illustrated the changing attitude in the fire service from rushing in and “putting wet stuff on the red stuff” to one of cautious, well-thought-out action that produces positive results and saves lives.
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FIRE LOSS MANAGEMENT

Parts one through 15 in this series covered the first two wheels of the fire loss management “slot machine,” cause and extension (see Fire Engineering, April 1989, page 48). The third wheel is management, of which there are two distinct areas: the people or agencies that have control of some part of the problem, and the factors involved in the management of a potential or actual fire.
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VENTING SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS

VENTING SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS

When your first units arrive on the scene and you find you only have limited personnel to work with, how can you ensure that a task as vital to the outcome of a fire as ventilation is not overlooked or shortchanged? With a good understanding of why you want to ventilate and what you want to accomplish, you will be better able to assign your limited personnel to such a task.
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DISPATCHES

DISPATCHES

As part of National Volunteer Week in April, President George Bush visited the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland. He watched an equipment demonstration and took a tour of the station. According to Rescue Squad President George Giebel, Bush took great interest in operations and while inside an ambulance asked many questions about equipment and its use and about victims during transport.
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COLD STORAGE WAREHOUSE TURNS UP THE HEAT

On Monday, August 21, 1989, members of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire were called on to battle a difficult fire that tested their Incident Command System and required implementation of some unusual strategies. Ultimately, it took almost 100 firefighters manning 24 pieces of apparatus six hours to subdue the blaze in a former cold storage warehouse that was being used to store bulk paper products.
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TRAINING AIDS

TRAINING AIDS

A GUIDE TO STANDARDS, from ASTM, is an introductory guide to voluntary consensus standards. It includes chapters on the history and development of standards, their importance and application, and problems in using them and how to correct them. For more information, contact the American Society for Testing and Materials.
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BEHIND THE CAMERAS: WORKING WITH THE MEDIA

We all have heard horror stories about the conflict between the media and the fire service. We have seen their adversarial relationship deteriorate to the point where the local media and emergency service no longer trust each other, much less cooperate.
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COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

JULY 15-20— Texas A&M will hold its seventh annual HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CONTROL SCHOOL FOR FIREFIGHTERS and its 24th annual SPANISH FIRE SCHOOL FOR FIREFIGHTERS in college Station, Texas. For more information, contact Fire Protection Training Division, Texas Engineering Extension Service, The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX 77843-8000, or call (409) 845-7641.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO SUSPECTED CAR BOMBS

Explosive devices placed in vehicles have become a grim reality not only abroad but here in the States as well. And their use is on the rise, mirroring the increase in violence and drug trafficking nationwide. Stephen E. Higgins, director of the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), says, “There has been a 442-percent increase in the number of drug-related bombings and a 296-percent increase in the number of times both explosives and drugs have been recovered during a search.”
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IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVERHAULED

Much is written about safety in terms of strategy, tactics, and techniques in fire control. The fire service, through its safety message, seeks to reduce its death and injury record. In 1988 more than 100,000 firefighter injuries were reported, 60 percent of which occurred at fire emergencies, according to the NFPA.
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SULFUR DIOXIDE

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MANUFACTURER’S LITERATURE

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Time Goes by Quickly

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UTILIZING THE RESCUE COMPANY

Technical Rescue

FIRE ENGINEERING

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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Firefighting Equipment

SIMPLIFYING MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS

Fire Safety

CONGRESSIONAL CLIPBOARD

Fire PreventionFire Safety

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

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