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Tuesday, July 6, 1976
University Daily Kansan
"All in a day's training"
David Hatfield and Mike Penner struggle with firehoes worn with age.
It's a two-man job, holding down a hose that's putting out 145 pounds of pressure per square inch. Almiring at trees and open space instead of a burning building, Lloyd Hammerschmidt and Gregg Crossman accomplish the job.
Jim Renick and Jim Tucker found even the older hose connections harder to work with than those used with the newer hoses. The old equipment is
Lawrence firefighters don't just sit around waiting for an arm to have the know what to do when they hear one. As the next person arrives,
During warm weather, the firefighters train outdoors at Fire Station No. 2, on Haskell. Here they battle fires in the station's training tower, perform rescues from fifth-story ledges or extinguish a blazing oil pit.
Firefighters from all three Lawrence stations recently simulated a response to a major fire. Most parts of the operation go smoothly under the watchful eyes of Capt. McPearson, a 17-year veteran, but there are a few foul-
TWO MEN grapple with a hose snaking wildly as water surges through it at a pressure of 145 pounds per square inch. A metal gate valve lever that is supposed to stop the flow of water can be pressed in instead. A weak spot in another hose burps with a gush.
Pearson shakes his head and grins. Mistakes will happen and the best place for them is on the training grounds.
"See, that's what we're trying to learn." Pearson says.
"All these mistakes are made here so we don't do them
aerial ladder truck from Station No.1, and a pumper from Station No.2. The aerial truck houses the heavy hardware: a hydraulic ladder that can extend to 100 feet, four 600-watt lights, bolt cutters, showels, sledgehammers and two 30-cm
Three trucks work the simulated fire: a pumper and an
FIREFIGHTER MIA PENNER locks a wide yellow belt with a large metal clip around his waist. He climbs a ladder, clips himself to it and takes control of the upper bottle, spraying a 50-foot stream of water over the station grounds. The ladder's two hoses can also be controlled from a panel at the base of the ladder.
The firefighters don't extend the ladder much more than
2z feet this day. When it’s its full 100-foot length, there’s a
hole.
"It's scary," Penner says. "Each change in hose pressure moves the ladder backwards and forwards and the wind moves it sidways. When you look down and see the birds飞 around under you, you know you're up there."
Although the ladderman has an important job, the kingpin of the simulation is at the control panel of pumper 14. This truck makes the only direct connection to the water to the other trucks and to two hand-held boxes. If
something goes wrong at pumper 14, the entire operation is affected.
THE MAN at the control panel monitors four pressure gauges and controls water flow and pressure in each line. A digital pressure gauge is also used for simulation. Pearson details truck placement and job duties required at a major fire. The simulation procedures continue until the fire is extinguished.
"We try to get six or seven men trained at the same position, we teach them or on vacation we don't have它们." Pearson says.
Suddenly, the training session is interrupted for a run. Two of the trucks disappear down the street with red lights flashing and sirens blaring, only to find a false alarm at their destination.
"NOT EVERYONE can take the life of a firefighter," says veteran Jim Tucker. "It's kind of like gambling; it takes a certain kind of a man to be a firefighter. We've had guys work 12 years and quit."
When you know that a man with 12 years is almost halfway to retirement, you realize that there must be some kind of help.
By BERNEIL JUHNKE Staff Writer
Studex makes plans for talks exhibits in fall
Students interested in promoting higher education in their home communities may may participate.
Tedde Tasheff, student body president,
said yesterday at a Student Executive
Committee meeting the Alumni Association
and the Office of University Relations
wanted students to speak to Kansas comm-
munity about the value of higher education.
Speaking appointments would be made
for weekends and vacation breaks, Tasheff said. Speakers will not be nailed.
Jim Cox, student senate treasurer, said a budgetary training session would begin at 3:45 p.m. July 13 at the Kansas Union. He said the union would about five organizations were expected.
Attendance by at least one member of a Senate-funded organization at a budgetary training session is necessary before the organization's account will be activated.
Cox said the University's bookkeeping system needed to be changed. The paper-
Tasheff said some remodeling would be done on the Student Senate offices in the building.
sue said Frank Burge, Union director,
and Kevin Flynn, student senate executive
secretary, were working on plans for the
offices.
work deadline for Senate-funded
organizations is June 1, but the fiscal year
starts on January 1.
He said organizations should be able to spend their funds till the end of each fiscal year.
NOTICE
TO: All organizations allocated funds by the Student Senate from the Student Activity Fee
FROM: Jim Cox, Student Senate Treasurer
All officers who are to be responsible for the expenditure of allocated funds MUST:
1. Attend a TRAINING SESSION conducted by the Student Senate Treasurer. See the schedule listed below.
3. Obtain ADVANCE WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION for each expenditure from funds allocated to the organization.
2. Sign a CAPITAL DISPOSITION CONTRACT with the Student Senate.
4. Account for All Inventory.
No funds will be made available until these requirements have been met.
Treasurer's Training Sessions have been scheduled for the following time:
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 3:45 p.m.
International Room Level 5 Kansas Union
No other sessions will be held this summer
You must contact the Student Senate Treasurer's Office at 864-3746 to sign up for this session, or for additional information.
funded from the Student Senate activity fee
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