Coming Events

Coming Events

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Oct. 6-10—11th Annual Aircraft Crash/Fire Rescue School, Great Falls International Airport, Great Falls, Mont For further information contact the Montana Fire Services Training School, 2100 16th Ave. South, Great Falls, Mont. 59405.

Oct. 11—Second Annual Fire Exposition, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. For information write to the United States Air Force, Base Public Affairs Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433.

Oct. 17-19—Illinois Firemen’s Association Inc., 90th annual conference, Collinsville, 111. For further information, contact O. E. Hirst, Secretary, 100 S. Bench St., Galena, 111. 61036.

Oct. 25-26—Connecticut Fire Department Instructor’s Association, 2-day seminar featuring workshops, Maloney High School, Meriden, Conn. For more information contact Pete Mullen, Secretary, Conn. Fire Department Instructor’s Association, Branford Fire Headquarters, 45 North Main St., Branford, Conn. 06405

Oct. 27-29—University of Minnesota, Fire Center, conference: Managing the Problems of Aircraft Disasters. For further information contact Gordon J. Amundson, Associate Director, Dept, of Conferences, Room 207, Nolte Center, 315 Pillsbury, Dr. S.E., Minneapolis, Minn. 55455.

Oct. 30-Nov. 2—ISFSI Fall Conference, Virginia Beach, Va. For information, contact Mary McCormack, ISFSI, P.O. Box 88, Hopkinton, Mass. 01748.

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.