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July/August 2002

July/August 2002   ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Evacuation Access Haz-mat Teams Deal with White Powder Scares Using Portable Analyzer Lesson One in Bioterrorism: Large and small communities get a crash course. A Fire Service Veteran at USFA Takes Firefighter Safety Personally
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COVER STORY Long-Term Fire Safety Care NFPA standards guide life safety for many assisted-living facilities (PDF, 79 KB). Alisa Wolf FEATURES 2001 Firefighter Fatalities Report Have better equipment and gaps in training, experience, and procedures at structure fires driven firefighter deaths back up to a 25-year-old level? (PDF, 722 KB). Rita F. Fahy, PhD, and Paul R. LeBlanc Atmospheric Pressure Houston-area hospitals learned how prepared they were when faced with one of the biggest storms in a century (PDF, 97 KB). John R. Paradise
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Buzwords Do Minimum Codes and Standards Affect Quality? Fourteen points provide guidance in the "quality versus cost" struggle. Wayne D. Moore Just Ask Using Extinguishing Agents Properly Keep in mind these tips when choosing an extinguishing agent for a medical facility. Mark Conroy Fire Watch Discarded cigarette leads to motel death in Maine Ken Tremblay Looking Back ...at fires in health-care facilities John Nicholson First Word New Beginnings James M. Shannon Meetings Fall Education Conference Heads to Atlanta Enhance your career at more than 40 seminars and have fun, too. Brian Benstock Heads Up Predicting Water Delivery in Dry-Pipe Systems Change to NFPA 13 allows for the use of computer-aided predictions. Russell P. Fleming Out Reach Planting the Seeds of Safety Champion Management Teams ‘till the soil' to ensure safety grows in every community. Meri-K Appy In Compliance Human Element Key to Safety Program NFPA 101® offers essential requirements for emergency planning in health-care facilities. Wayne Struct. Firefighting Occupancy and Risk-Versus-Benefit Analysis To properly size up a building, it's crucial to know how and when it's used. Russ Sanders & Ben Klaene Inside the Beltway Prescription for Health-Care Facility Safety The Life Safety Code® has a long history of protecting patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Anthony R. O'Neill Upto Code Making Renovated Health-Care Facilities Safe NFPA 5000 spells out when a health-care rehabilitation project needs to be sprinklered. Ron Coté