Tuesday, July 26, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3
Firemen burning to learn
Firefighting school begins
riAIS!
ARS!
Double dive
photo by Kelly Krauskopf
Indy Dutton
ivan dive
-Glutton is
15,
shows off his
at the Wofford Cain pool,
visiting College Station
from State College, Pa. With July’s
high temperatures, the pool is one
of the popular places on campus.
by Rusty Roberts
Battalion Reporter
More than 2,500 Texas muni
cipal firefighters, instructors
and sales representatives are on
the Texas A&M campus this
week to sharpen their firefight
ing knowledge, a training school
specialist said Monday.
Lewis Williams, associate
training specialist for the Texas
A&M Fire Protection School,
said the school is designed to en
courage training and better fire
protection techniques for Texas
firefighters.
The firemen will attend clas
sroom and field training this
week. The students attend six
hours of instruction a day and a
night class Monday. They then
must take a final examination
Friday. Williams said the exami
nation covers theory from the
classroom and practical applica
tion from field training.
He said basic field training
includes how to properly hold a
fire hose, prevent smoke inhala
tion and forcibly enter a struc
ture without causing damages.
The more advanced classes, he
said, deal with electrical and
structural fires and the chemic
als used to prevent them.
The program is one of the
best in the nation with visitors
coming from all over the United
States and abroad to observe the
teaching methods and the effi
ciency with which the program is
run, Williams said. Volunteer
instructors are coming from all
over the nation to teach the
newest firefighting techniques.
“We charge each firefighter a
registration fee of $175,” Wil
liams said. “That covers the
school’s expenses for things like
hoses, chemicals and fuel as well
as renting classrooms on cam
pus. But it probably would be
triple that amount if we didn’t
have sales representatives
donating some of the more ex
pensive demonstration equip
ment.”
More than 1,500 of the stu
dents, instructors and sales rep
resentatives are being housed
for the week in Hobby, Neeley,
McFadden, Haas and Clements
halls while the remaining 1,000
are staying in local hotels. Food
and lodging are not inlcuded in
the registration fee.
The Fire Protection Training
Division at Texas A&M con
ducts the firefighting school. It
is one of 16 separate training di
visions of the Texas Engineer
ing Extension Service.
The fire protection division is
sponsoring three firefighting
programs: municipal firefight
ing this week, industrial fire
fighting next week and a special
program for Spanish-speaking
firefighters the week beginning
Aug. 5.
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3 rofs double as policemen
by Eric Evan Lee
Battalion Reporter
A group of Texas A&M pro-
| Hrs. who also serve as Col-
refetation reserve policemen,
II soon put their academic ex-
_ to work in the police de-
5 to hrs irtjuent.
', first-senBim Coppinger, the officer
e Ohio jcljarge of the College Station
tne 5,000 |lia' reserve unit, said the pro-
;y (raisecf S0IS are helping with driver
l a secondf et f’ physical fitness programs
(n Derail. department, and the
k K prevention unit.
1 ' K b kson Wagner, a professor
r reportt:|th e College of Medicine, is
S 2,00' orking on a physical Fitness
qualify (of Brani to help police officers
■ the Sffl prove their physical condi-
mg to cap
ink for if:®
Wagner said the program
would be introduced gradually
over a one-year period.
Coppinger said he joined the
reserves to learn more about law
enforcement and municipal law
and to get a different perspec
tive on the community. He said
most officers of the reserve
joined to be involved in the com
munity.
The cost of joining the re
serves is about $500. The
weapon is the most expensive
item, David Bergen of the Stu
dent Activities Office said. The
city pays about $1,000 to train
each officer and put him on the
street, he said.
The reserves learn a lot of the
basics in a 70-hour training
course, Bergen said, but most of
their education will come from work in all phases of the police
on-the-job training. department, including jailing,
The officers, he said, will patrolling, and writing reports.
Hilton, Sheraton
lan local hotels
isociated
pet solum
tout,
s to taken
reation o!|
s,” to alb
inch. Mwjby Robert McGlohon
or rej
nd loan if! H Battalion Staff
■in, ■ Sunbelt Hotels of Houston
^ anned to announce the details
3 / BCollege Station Hilton hotel
‘ lk ' M onday, but the Sheraton hotel
i. rot i«i n beat them to the punch on
e a fixed|iursday by announcing their
ingatleiin plans for a hotel — the
iheraton Conference Center.”
necessa: jbe Hilton press conference
enipl ow has been postponed until it
pie, in m be given on the site of the
• young otel with a bulldozer ready to
investor!| f Diane Olson, public relations
ent theifl ctor Sunbelt, said Mon-
wnersh ^ recent publicity about
Droblejttd 5 in the Bryan-College Sta-
^ , on area caused the postpone-
tax Den Sem, Olson said,
it moref
■Sunbelt, a hotel ownership
ricans o nd management company, first
ely addrtlifposed building a Hilton on
the fund i 16 Texas A&M campus last
ship th#- That proposal was killed
lit prof * i n Texas attorney gener-
/ JjjHiled that the long-term lease
u<l ' Ii|on wanted was tantamount
“ven ^‘bselling University land, which
Texas law forbids.
||Hilton has not said where its
Bel will be built, but it is ex
ited to be within a few hun-
Ired yards of the Sheraton Con
ference Center, which is to be
Bted at 925 East University
children »rive.
||Construction on the Sher-
t to. She Jton hotel will begin in Septem-
|r, Monica O’Conner of
Japce-Matthew Inc., a
leaumont public relations firm,
' Monday. The hotel will be a
[story building with 300 guest
jins and six meeting rooms,
nsaddition, the hotel will be
[onnected to a one-story confer-
ihce center with convention
ilities and a ballroom that will
B 600.
he hotel lobby and bar will
pcated in a clear-span atrium
nnecting the hotel with the
nference center. Also in-
uded in plans for the hotel are
i 'arking for 453 cars, a re-
L ,-^taprant and a swimming pool.
"V HIP Conner said the hotel will
p\_JHbuilt primarily to serve the
Je conference market gener-
ited by Texas A&M.
John Richards, scheduling
|i^ services manager for the
University Center, said the Un-
’ersity Center alone handles 150
bnferences each year, bringing
10,000 to 45,000 people to Col-
ege Station annually for an av-
Bge stay of 2.76 days. Those
Inferences — which don’t in
clude conferences held in other
Idings, such as the Academic
id Agency Building or Zachry
ineering Center — bring in
|6ut $7 million a year in out-
ide revenue, Richards said.
.« t i Betty Young, general manga-
J _ > er °f Ramada Inn in Col-
Jjpie,*ge Station, said that even the
flrge number of conventions
Texas A&M attracts will not be
enough to support a Ramada
Inn, a Hilton, a Sheraton and all
the motels in College Station.
“Somebody’s going to go
bankrupt,” Young said. “I just
can’t see them coming in. I don’t
understand it.”
The Ramada Inn, originally
built in 1963, expanded with a
17-floor tower in 1983. Young
said a nine-floor tower was ori
ginally planned, but that 17
floors were built in anticipation
of future business.
However, the top five floors
of the tower have yet to be com
pleted, Young said, because
there isn’t enough demand for
the rooms. She said the top
floors probably will be con
verted to apartments or business
suites.
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