FE Volume 145 Issue 6

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AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY EXTRICATIONS

Responding to agricultural incidents such as one that involves a corn picker/chopper extrication can tax even the most experienced rescuers. Lack of knowledge, experience, and training (about this type of call) is only a small part of the reason personnel have difficulty managing these events.
Technical RescueVehicle Extrication

I’LL JUST THROW UP A LADDER AND GET THEM!

I often pose the following scenario at courses, seminars, and training sessions that I am part of: You arrive at the structure. No doubt there is a well-seated and spreading fire within. There is the unmistakable smell of burning wood, furniture, and paint in the air.
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ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING FIRE APPARATUS ACCESS

To put out a fire, you have to get to it first. Access for firefighting apparatus, therefore, is an important consideration for the firefighter and the fire inspector alike. In this column, we’ll take a look at the roadways and "paths” that provide firefighters a means of access to a structure.
Fire Apparatus

PENNSYLVANIA COLLAPSE KILLS FOUR

A predawn fire struck a furniture reconditioning business in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, on Friday, December 20, 1991. During fire department operations, a major collapse occurred, killing four firefighters. The officers of Pioneer Hose Company in Brackenridge and Hilltop Hose Company No. 3 in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, provided insight into this incident so that the fire service community could learn from the tragedy.
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HEALTH-CARE FACILITY PREPLANS

A hospital emergency preplan can enlighten firefighters to the myriad of response concerns associated with a health-care facility. Some of these concerns include life safety for nonambulatory patients; patients in clinical areas; and laboratory, chemicalstorage, oxygen-storage, and hazardous-waste areas.
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MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

A-B Emblems offers a brochure on its design and manufacturing capability for custom-designed emblems, caps, and wearables. The brochure features the types of emblems that can be purchased and pictures examples. Circle No. 60 on Reader Service Card
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WRITING SPECIFICATIONS FOR ARFF VEHICLES

Just when you begin to get comfortable in your position as airport fire commander, it happens: You are assigned the task of writing the specifications for a new aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) vehicle. You accept the assignment willingly, of course, but with some reservation.
Aircraft Fire & RescueTechnical Rescue
TRAINING AIDS

TRAINING AIDS

Rockwell International offers the videotape Q AND Q PLUS CAM BRAKE MAINTENANCE (video #90233, S20), which provides a description of cam brake operation, the difference between the Rockwell Q and Q Plus brakes, disassembly, inspection, and rebuilding. Contact: Rockwell International, Literature Handling Dept., P.O. Box 2803, Livonia. MI 48151-9963.
Firefighter Training

HOT TOPIC

This month’s Hot Topic begins with an update on “national” fire inspector certification programs. Recent changes warrant discussion. In February of this year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) discontinued its fire inspector certification program.
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COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

JULY 15-18—The International Association of Fire Chiefs’ 49TH ANNUAL MISSOURI VALLEY DIVISION CONFERENCE will be held in Des Moines, Iowa. Contact: Gene Phillips, Assistant Chief, Des Moines Fire Department, 900 Mulberry St., Des Moines, IA 50309, (515) 283-4545. JULY 16-18-TEAM RESCUE CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION, presented by Rescue Magazine, will be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Contact:
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EFFECTIVE ANTI-ARSON PROGRAMS

EFFECTIVE ANTI-ARSON PROGRAMS

Deliberately set fires or those suspected of having been set killed 715 people and caused approximately $1.4 billion in property damage during 1990. These fires represented 15.5 percent of structure fires occurring in that year. Vehicle fires of incendiary origin alone (up almost 11 percent from 1989) caused S167 million in property damage, a 20.9 percent jump from 1989.1
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FE Volume 145 Issue 6

Issues

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #73: EPICHLOROHYDRIN

HazmatTechnical Rescue

EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Firefighter ToolsFirefighting Equipment

UNDERSTANDING TURNOUT TECHNOLOGY: A MATTER OF HEALTH AND SAFETY

Fire Safety

FIREFIGHTERS: COMMUNITY’S INFORMATION SOURCE

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HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WILDLAND AND FIRES

FirefightingWildland Firefighting

FIRE ENGINEERING

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APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Fire Apparatus

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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NEWS IN BRIEF

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