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FireRescue1 Member News December 26, 2007 Volume 213 |
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| Bell tolls on final midnight Mass at Ground Zero  |
L.A. firefighters unscathed after
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 The first midnight Mass at Ground Zero was celebrated as workers were still clearing debris from the World Trade Center and recovering bodies after the September 11 terrorist attacks.The last was held Monday night, giving police, firefighters, recovery workers and victims' families a final chance to pray on Christmas Eve at the site, where intensifying construction is increasingly taking up open space. This year, about 75 people attended. More than 150 people attended the first Mass in 2001 ... Full Story Related Article:  9/11 relatives want event at Ground Zero
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| Risk Assessments: Avoid the Rock at the Bottom of the Hill | |
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By Charles Bailey, FireRescue1 Columnist |
| Firefighters exist for two basic reasons: to save people's lives and to save people's stuff. It becomes apparent at some points though that we cannot save either the people or the stuff. The following discussion of risk assessment is limited to "bare bones" risk assessments.
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| PPE Update | |
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By Jeffrey O. Stull, FireRescue1 Columnist — Sponsored by Globe |
| All fires are in reality small hazardous materials incidents. It comes as no surprise that the increasing use of chemicals combined with the complex materials used in building construction create a fairly toxic cocktail when these substances are burned under uncontrolled conditions in a structural fire. Full Column |
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