American LaFrance Trains Industrial Fire Fighters
“THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE for experience!”—and experience is provided in abundance at the American LaFrance Industrial Fire School, held annually from April through October at the company’s experimental station and Proving Grounds in Elmira, N. Y. Fire protection, fire fighting, and fire prevention, each of these problems is considered in detail, on the six acres and more of plant facilities devoted to design, testing, and study of all types of fire fighting equipment.
For many years the company has conducted a fire school for its own personnel in addition to staging demonstrations of various extinguishing methods before interested groups. Currently, industrial firms from many parts of the country are sending their employees to the school for training under the guidance of experts in the science of fire fighting. Many of these men who attend the school have had years of experience dealing with fire hazards and fire control. Included among the more recent attendees at the threeday sessions were industrial fire protection engineers, insurance engineers, municipal fire officers and armed forces personnel.
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