On the Cover
An air tanker attacks a 2,000-acre brushfire that burned in the area of Agua Dulce, CA, on July 24. The air tanker flew out of Fox Field in Palmdale. Firefighters from Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and the Angeles National Forest were involved fighting the fire. No structures were lost.
Dedication
This month's Firehouse® is dedicated to Lieutenant Timothy A. DiOrio, 36, of the Maine Fire Company, Coal Township, PA, Fire Department, who died in the line of duty, November 2002; and to Fire Police Captain Woodrow Pinkerton, 63, of Union Fire Company, Station 251, Medford, NJ, Division of Fire; Firefighter and President Carl J. Mack, 68, of the New Chester Fire Department in Grand Marsh, WI; Firefighter Bruce F. Spaulding, 49, of the Bourbonnais, IL, Fire Protection District, who died in the line of duty, April 2003; and to Firefighter/Fire Police Harding Wentzell, 81, of the Mexico, ME, Fire Department, who died in the line of duty, May 2003.
