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In This Issue: January 2011

Jason Frattini

Companies from the Detroit, MI, Fire Department’s 1st Battalion responded to a fully involved fire in a vacant two-family dwelling. Two engines dumped their tanks through their deck guns and a ladder pipe was set up. The April 21, 2010, fire was extinguished in one hour.

Dedication

This issue of Firehouse® is dedicated to Captain Thomas Araguz III, 30, of the Wharton, TX, Fire Department; Engineer Charles “Bob” Robert Flintom, 61, of the Pelham-Batesville Fire Department in Greer, SC; Firefighter/Chief Driver Douglas L. Smith, 50, of Liberty Hose Company 1 in Williamstown, PA; Engineer Charles Hornberger, 60, of Milmont Park, PA, Fire Company Station 49; and Firefighter Richard L. Springman, 20, of the Trout Run, PA, Volunteer Fire Company, who died in the line of duty, July 2010

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Firehouse Magazine Insider

Managing Editor Elizabeth Neroulas talks with Dr. Richard B. Gasaway about his Chief Concerns column "Firefighting: It's a Whole New Ballgame," found on page 71 of the January 2011 issue of Firehouse Magazine . Gasaway shares the basis of the article: while watching a Minnesota Twins baseball game, he questions if the team can continue to play baseball if they were to lose a position on the team. He examines how the loss of a right-fielder on a baseball team is like the loss of the third...

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