On the Cover
Los Angeles Battalion 15 reported a one-story furniture manufacturing company full of wood products, lacquers, paint thinners and other combustible products well involved on Feb. 13, in the Pacoima area. A defensive attack was made with numerous heavy-stream appliances and heavy-duty handlines were put into operation. The fire was fought by 22 companies.
Dedication
This month's Firehouse® is dedicated to Firefighter/Training Officer Kevin Whitely, 48, of the Emmett City, ID, Fire Department, who died in the line of duty, March 2003; and to Fire Police Captain Woodrow "Woody" Pinkerton, 63, of Union Fire Company Station 251 of the Medford, NJ, Division of Fire; Firefighter and President Carl J. Mack, 68, of the New Chester, WI, Fire Department; and Firefighter Bruce F. Spaulding, 49, Bourbonnais, IL, Fire Protection District, all who died in the line of duty, April 2003.
