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5 unusual facts about firefighting


Amateur Radio Emergency Communications

AREC Sections in individual areas may provide all manner of other communications and CIMS expertise - Firefighting is one example of where skilled communicators and high-flexibility radio communications systems come in handy.

Firefighting

Following work with Warrington Fire Research Consultants (FRDG 6/94) his terminology and concepts were adopted officially by the UK fire services, and are now referred to throughout revised Home Office training manuals (1996–97).

Use of a diffused spray was first proposed by Chief Lloyd Layman of the Parkersburg Fire Department, at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) in 1950 held in Memphis.

John J. Kirwin

For 30 minutes, secondary explosions in the gun room hampered fire-fighting efforts.

Yugoslav Air Force

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CAFS

Compressed air foam system, a system used in firefighting to deliver fire retardant foam to a fire

Colet

Colet Special Vehicle Design, a Newark, California based aircraft rescue firefighting (ARFF) vehicle manufacturer founded by Ralph Colet

Diamond Creek, Victoria

The Diamond Creek CFA brigade has approximately 60 members, one pumper, two tankers and a Nissan Patrol, as well as an extensive collection of modern, advanced firefighting equipment and training facilities.

Dosmatic U.S.A.

Dosmatic manufactures injectors and pumps for the following market applications: Animal Health, Bio-Decontamination, Diesel Fuel Additives, Firefighting & Prevention, Food Processing, Golf Course Management, Horticulture, Pest Control, Printing, Vehicle Wash, Waste-water treatment and other specialty applications.

Erron Kinney

In 2004, Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen appointed him to a seven-year term with the Tennessee State Firefighting Commission, an organization that tests and certifies firefighters in the state.

GAZ5903V Vetluga

The GAZ5903V Vetluga is a Russian heavy firefighting vehicle, a modified BTR-70 amphibious armored personnel carrier with an externally mounted fire suppression system in a large vertically movable turret.

Hazmat

Hazchem—a system of hazardous chemical classification and firefighting modes

Houston Fire Museum

The collection also features firefighting vehicles such as a hand-drawn and hand-powered pumper, a horse-drawn steam engine, and a 1912 American Automatic ware tower with an American LaFrance engine, the only vehicle of its type ever used by the HFD.

Jason Thomas

After hours of firefighting, assisting survivors and in some cases, praying over the dead, Thomas ran into another former Marine, Staff Sgt. Dave Karnes.

John Hancock Center

On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.

Los Angeles City Fire Department

This method of firefighting operation differs very much from that of other large U.S. city fire departments, such as the New York City Fire Department and the Chicago Fire Department.

Minneapolis Fire Department Repair Shop

Four Wheel Drive built the engines, drivetrains, suspension components, and other components, while the Minneapolis Fire Department shops provided the frames, bodywork, pumping equipment, and all other firefighting equipment.

Parque Central Complex

On February 14, 1982, high rise firefighting and rescue advocate, Dan Goodwin, at the invitation of the Venezuelan television company, Venevisión, scaled the outside of the Parque Central Complex.

Red Adair

The History Channel's Modern Marvels episode on "Oil Well Firefighting" was one of Adair's last interviews prior to his death.

SS Abyssinia

At 12:40 pm on 18 December 1891 off the coast of Newfoundland a fire broke out in her cargo hold which quickly overpowered her crew's firefighting efforts.

Station officer

Station Officer is a rank in a number of Commonwealth and other fire services, including those in Australia, the United Kingdom and the New Zealand Fire Service.

Unmanned ground vehicle

DOK-ING mine clearing, firefighting, and underground mining UGV's


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