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Wednesday, June 15, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Life's not like a TV program at Fire Dept. No.1
Staff Writer
Bv KEVIN KIOUS
They've received calls to capture parrots and monkeys and to coax raccoons, rats and mice.
The Lawrence Fire Department is most often called upon to battle fires such as the one which destroys the Royal College Shop in downtown Lawrence last Saturday night.
Fire Dept. No. 1 at 745 Vermont has an extensive array of sophisticated and expensive fire fighting equipment. Walter Captain, captain, said Dept. No. 1 has had equipment that allows it to be near the highest property value area, which includes downtown.
Unlike the television show "Emergency One", the Lawrence Fire Dept. does not train firefighters with paramedics. Parmer said each man was trained in first aid and heart massage and that the fire department was called for medical emergencies only when an amateur firefighter is present.
"Ninety per cent of the time an ambulance can get there just as fast as we
can," he said. "Usually the presence of trucks will cause quite a commotion and can be dangerous."
The most unpleasant jet for the fireman is the recovery of bodies from area lakes and from the Kansas River. Parmer said recoveries averaged about one a year.
Dept. No. 1, has a 16-foot boat which is used in recovery operations, but it is owned by the company.
The department has three pumper trucks, which when combined, are able to pump up to 4,500 gallons of water a minute through the nearly two miles of hose available at each station. The pumps and all hoses are tested yearly.
Parmar said that fires often knocked out electrical lines, so each truck carried its own generator. Each truck also carries the remote control and joystick addition to its glimmering chrome parts.
Parmer said all the city's fire-fighting equipment was high in quality and had price tags to match. He said the air mask and gun inside a burning building cost $500 each.
without ever rolling the gelling trucks out of the station, "The fire will come to you," Partner said. There have been instances where the fire has right on the door of the station, he said.
Occasionally the firemen answer a call
Parmer said many people thought of firemen as of "supermen."
"If they have problems, they call a fireman. If anybody is lost in town, they go to a fire station," he said. "They don't know where else to go."
The firemen's job doesn't end when the fire is extinguished—it seems to begin. In the case of the fire in downtown Lawrence, the firefighters had to be sure the fire didn't start up again.
The men are also responsible for some cleaning activities at the site, such as pumping water out of a building after the fire is out.
"We clean up what we mess up," Parmer said.
The trucks have to be ready to roll out on another call almost immediately after
"Each truck is cleaned and dried as soon
as it's back in the station - no matter what time of day." Parmer said.
The busy schedule of the men shows why the station always has the appearance of pristine cleanliness. Each man works three 24-hour periods and then gets four days off, about 10 days a month. A fireman's daily schedule is usually something like this:
Most men on the shift go to sleep at 10. They are paid for eight hours of sleep but Parmer was quick to point out that the men weren't guaranteed any睡.
Fire Dept. No. 1 is the only place in Lawrence where the brass fireman's pole is mounted and used out through the use of single-story fire stations. The traditional red fire truck is being replaced by lime green models. We say the green trucks are more visible.
sections. Each shift includes a fire inspector and an aragon specialist.
Working in cooperation with city and county police, the Lawrence fire department has formed the Douglas County Arson Squad. It's similar in design and purpose to the Metro Squab because it provides inter-urban concentrations concentrated investigation of certain fires.
8:30 a.m.—Training until 11:30.
The gesture was made as the committee approved a $6.7 billion foreign aid appropriation for 1978. It includes $2.7 billion in aid and financing for Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan and $100 million to help any governments established in southern Africa.
BELGRAD, Yugoslavia (AP)—Two years after aligning the Helsinki accords, the United States, the Soviet Union and the 33 other signatories are returning to the conference table for a meeting that will become a battleground over human rights.
7 a.m.-Shift starts with cleaning the station and the trucks.
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The House *Aspen* voted to mandate that we vote for human rights Tuesday that would deny U.S. military help to three countries and ban financing to four more for what they want.
Helsinki meeting convenes
Aid, training and military sales credits were denied to Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Uganda. The government of the bill said, "the committee feels that the current degree of internal repression practiced by the governments of some countries warrants the termination of such aid."
Ethiopia has asked U.S. personnel to leave the country, and diplomatic sources said the request for $1.1 million in aid and loans to Ethiopia's creditors probably would never so through.
A Pentagon spokesman said the only assistance to Nicaragua was a $2.3 million payment for its national guard and $15,000 for firefighters. Another agency requested no sales, training or aid.
The committee decided to ban arms sales financing to Argentina, Brazil. El Salvador and Guatemala. The Pentagon spokesman said Argentina wanted to buy $15 million; Brazil, $50 million; El Salvador, $2.5 million, and Guatemala, $1.5 million.
The closed-door preparatory meeting that convenes in this city Wednesday was called to draft ground rules and an agenda for a full-scale conference this fall that would review adherence to the agreement on European security and cooperation signed
They could still buy arms if they paid cash, but the State Department has said: Congress would get a veto on such controversial sales.
The Department is moving toward more specialization and concentration on fire prevention and rescue activities. The move is away from rescuing cats from trees.
The four countries have refused a total of $35,000 in military aid if the United States insists on the human rights conditions urged by President Carter. The committee permitted education and training aid worth about $2 million.
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON Associated Press Writer
Aftermorns include 3 or 4 hours of work on the firefighting equipment.
President Carter has accused the Soviet Union of trying to dilute the human rights sections of the agreement U.S. officials have with Russia on human rights, but they expressed determination to lay the groundwork for a full appraisal of implementation of the Heliskiin
House ties aid to rights issue
in Helsinki, Finland. The preliminaries could take up to six-weeks.
The Soviet Union has warned that detente—the process of easing East-West tensions—would suffer if the West makes human rights the focus of the meeting.
President Carter, in a report sent to Congress last week, said Moscow and its European Communist allies have not agreed on a compromise concerning restrictions on human rights.
"While we have no desire to see the Belgrade meeting turn into an exchange of recrimination and polemics, we believe a full review of the implementation of the human rights policies should remain a central focus of the Belgrade session," Carter said.
4:30-6:00—Time available for supper
4:20 6:00 is free time.
and its allies in the 1960s as what observers called a vehicle for confirming the post World War II map of Europe. The United States was accused by some Westerners of selling out the peoples of Eastern Europe at Helsinki.
The European conference that convened at Helsinki was conceived by the Kremlin
As Jim Tucker, leitman, said, "Ive never seen a cat skeleton under a tree."
Negotiators at Helsinki reached accord on human rights provisions, East-West economic and scientific cooperation, and the so-called 'confidence building measure' for military maneuver and notification of military maneuvers and the exchange of military observers.
Outlining the U. s. position for the Belgrade meeting, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance said last week "the free flow of people and ideas is as important to long-term security and cooperation as, for example, advance notice of military maneuvers."
Funeral services for R. Scott Brooks, a
veteran of political science, used
wheel Monday.
The final agreement also provided for freer movement of persons between East and West and the reunion of families divided by the war.
Mr. Brooks, 34, died last Thursday, in a near collision on U.S. 40 near big Spring.
Participants here include Canada and all European nations except Albania. The U.S. delegation is headed by Ambassador Albert Speer.
Before coming to the University of
Kansas, Mr. Brooks taught at Fort Hays State University and worked as a training coordinator for the Kansas League of Municipalities.
Memorial set up for prof
Mr. Brooks graduated from Central Methodist College, Fayette, Mo., in 1964. He received his M.A. degree from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1968. His Ph.D. degree was from the University of Bourstock-Columbia, where he graduated in 1970.
In addition to teaching, Mr. Brooks was a research associate in the KU Institute for Public Affairs. He was director of the urban concentration program for the institute.
A memorial fund in his name has been established at the Plymouth Congregational Church.
Mr. Brooks is survived by his widow, karen, and two sons, Jeff and Tum, all at 113.
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