NEAFC 31st Annual Conference.pdf - New England Association of ...

NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: NOW we have another friend of all of us, former Chief
Samuel J. Pope, Retired, Boston, Massachusetts, Fire Department on "The Fire Chiefs
and’ Civil Defense." (Applause.)
CHIEF POPE iI Mr. President and Brother Firemen and Brother Members of the
New England As~oclatlon of Fire Chiefs, I too wish to express my gratitude for two
reasons. First, it i;ts much better to have somebody take your place because there is not
tco much fun getting up here and talking, particularly on Civil Defense, as already
you have heard me give that talk a year ago and it would not have been much different
except with ;possible ct~anges in the prices of the equipment on the matching funds.
I do think that we all should feel very happy that we have a lot of these so-called
"screw balls" which Lt. Maloney referred to and~ I happen to be one of them who has
interested himself in this particular project because even though there are times yo.u
would be discouraged and feel that nothing had been accomplished, something has
taken place in Michigan and Worcester which shows very definitely a great deal has
been accomplished and I think if anything has stimulated the Civil Defense progress
as tragic as these two disasters, it has ’brought to the minds of the public the necessity
of this Civil Defense program.
Again I say ..it was a pleasure to me to relinquish my time for Lt. Malo.ney’s in,
terestlng talk. Thank you. (Applause.)
PRESIDENT MOL~.OY: Our next speaker is Mr. H. A. Earsy, Fire Marshal, United
Aircraft Corporation, East Hartford!, Connecticut. Mr. Earsy. (Applause.)
ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL FIRE PROTECTION
AT A LARGE INDUSTRIAL PLANT
Address by H. A. EARSY, Fire Marshal of the United Aircraft Corporation at
the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the New England Association of Fire Chiefs,
at "The Wentworth," Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Mr. President, Members and Friends:
It is a pleasure and great privilege to have the opportunity of addressing this
Conference of the New England Association of Fire Chiefs, and I hope that our
remarks about the organization of industrial fire protection at a large industrial plant
will be of interest.
As the varic.us operations and processes involved in the manufacturing and’. testing
of aircraft engines in this plant can create many potential tire hazards and fires of
various kinds, fire prevention and fire protection requirements must be continually
maintained at all times by our industrial tire protection organization.
Fire prevention work includes the study and safeguarding of every fire hazard
in the plant; the maintenance of a high standard of good housekeeping; with the prompt
removal of all waste and’ rubbish; the control of smoking and its suppression in "no
smoking" locations; the devising of safe methods for handling hazardous materials such
as flamma, ble liquids, magnesium, L. P. gases, chemicals, etc., and many other precautionary
measures.
Although everything possible is done to prevent fires by the foregoing fire prevention
work, employee education, and the application of various safeguards--for equip-
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