• Home >
  • Back Issues >
  • Firehouse Magazine >
  • June 2006

    • June 2006

    More content from June 2006

    Photo Courtesy of Author
    This engine has a bypass eductor externally mounted on the driver’s-side rear discharge. The compartment directly below holds five-gallon containers of foam concentrate. Notice the medium expansion nozzle installed on the end of a rear pre-connect fed by the eductor. This makes getting to work with foam simple and easy, with the minimum number of steps.
    Dominic Colletti Jr. details the use of eductors as an easy and less-expensive way to become involved in the application of nozzle-aspirated Class A foam.
    June 1, 2006
    Curtis S.D. Massey discusses how a commercial building can meet some or all of its power demand in the event is it removed from the local electrical grid.
    June 1, 2006
    Big changes are underway inside the battered Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but it’s not going to be the total dismantling and rebuilding that was recommended ...
    June 1, 2006
    By request of the author, this article is not available online
    June 1, 2006
    Photo courtesy of Cocoa, FL, Fire Rescue
    The explosion involved a nitrous oxide tank in the trunk of the car inside the building.
    Cocoa, FL, Fire Rescue protects a population of 18,000 in 15 square miles along the eastern Florida coastline. Unlike many Florida communities with high concentrations of seniors...
    June 1, 2006
    Photo 9
    SUBJECT: Collision Size-UpTOPIC: Developing a Rescue Action Plan for Hard-impact Side CollisionsOBJECTIVE: Given a vehicle with collision damage to one side and the simulation...
    June 1, 2006
    Each of us has a variety of roles in our lives. We are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, business people and public servants, skilled technicians, career and volunteer...
    June 1, 2006
    I have thought about this for awhile. I did some Internet searches, but came up with nothing. I even asked some of the veterans in the profession whether they’ve ever thought...
    June 1, 2006
    Over the past two years, this column has concentrated on helping firefighters prepare themselves to use their thermal imagers (TIs) more effectively at emergency incidents. The...
    June 1, 2006
    Last month, we reported that U.S. Fire Administrator Dave Paulison was nominated by the President to serve as the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA...
    June 1, 2006
    Ella Ernst, founder and charter president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York (LAFASNY) and current resident of the Firemen’s Home in Hudson, celebrated her 100th birthday at a ceremony and party at the home attended by firefighters and friends from all over the state. Born in Germany in 1906, Mrs. Ernst came to the U.S. via Ellis Island. She later became the wife of a volunteer firefighter, joined the Point Pleasant Auxiliary in Monroe County and led the formation of LAFASNY in 1948. Attending the festivities with Mrs. Ernst were, seated from left, Fireman’s Home Trustee John Montrose (New York Mills) and former trustee Donald Fox (Fairport); standing, from left, are Trustees Jose DaRocha (Albertson), David Schultz (East Rochester), Michael Ryan (Solvay) and John Farrell Jr. (Athens), Vice President James Wright (Norwich), Home Administrator Craig Wittman, Trustee Robert McKinney (Diamond Point), Secretary Steven Klein (Oceanside), former trustee Robert Darling (Catskill) and Trustee Paul O’Brien (Verplanck).
    NEW YORK CITY: JUNE 1, 1906 – The Broadway branch of the subway was the site of a smoky fire that destroyed four subway cars during the evening rush hour. Flames were discovered...
    June 1, 2006