FIRE

FIRE

Volume 133

No. 8

THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION PROFESSION SINCE 1877

features

6 The Editor’s Opinion Page

22 Pre-Plan Helps Volunteers Confine Fire Threatening Old Business Area

27 100,000-Gal. Gasoline Pipeline Spill Confined by Dikes, Cooperative Efforts

28 Conference to Seek Greater Life Safety for the Handicapped

36 30 Rescued Over Ladders as Blaze in Cellar Fills Police HQ With Smoke

37 30-Year-Old Ladder Truck on 3rd Career

38 Arson Evidence Restriction Eased by Latest Supreme Court Decision

42 Cubans Use Russian Fire Apparatus, Have Few Stations, Small Pumps

43 Fire Service Urged to Take Lead in Increasing SCBA Level of Safety

47 Irrigation Unit Modified to Fill Tankers Easily

48 Talk-Back Cable TV Aids Training, Pre-Fire Planning

31 10-Day Fire Burns From Top Floors to Ceflar, Destroys 11-Story Hotel

34 Fire Service Often Ignored at Hazardous Spill Meeting

departments

8 The Volunteers Corner

10 Coming Events

10 Fire Schools and Seminars

14 Letter to the Editor

14 16MM Films

16 Names in the News

55 From the Publisher’s Desk

56 Advertisers’ Index

57 Reader Service Card

18 The Round Table

50 Fire Equipment Digest

53 Manufacturers Literature

22 Pre-f ire plan

31 Fire destroys Brooklyn hotel

34 Hazardous spill meeting

36 Paterson police HO fire

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.