News stories pertaining to fires inevitably
contain a phrase similar to: “when the flames subsided…” Everyone knows what
happened at that juncture - the fuel had run out because a fire had just
consumed every bit of it, and there was nothing left to burn.
In the winter of 1980, nearly four years after passing the exam, Steve Parlick, EMT (emergency medical technician), became a firefighter for the Chicago Fire Department.
Massive fires at the Jupiter Aluminum rolling mill in
Hammond, IN, and Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC, reinforce the need for
sprinklered buildings.