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LOGGER'S SHEET 141 LOGGER: Catherine Jacobs REEL NUMBER: 2 STAGE: AFS-Centennial DATE: July 2, 1988 PRESENTOR: Charlie Camp GROUP NAME: Occupational Folklore REGION/STYLE: PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION Bob McCarl, folklorist - Boise, Idaho. Phil Pestone - D.C. Firefighter CONTENTS 1. D.C. Fire Fighters' tradition - women's entry into the service (separate bathrooms, big furry slippers, ability to perform required work) 2. Probationers dinner: rite of passage 3. Importance of food to the life of the company 4. The terminology: fireman, fire woman, firefighter terms for different roles on the job 5. "Telephone, Tell-a-woman, Tell-a fireman" How word travels in the fire dept, & how people learned about McCarl's study 6. Rescue stories - usually told by other than the rescuer 7. Dennis Smith's Book - Report from Company 82 (didn't deal w/ some surrounding issues, but nonetheless a very compelling issue 8. Physical fitness 9. Response to a fire - how the fire is attacked, everybody knows what their job is 10. Hazards of firefighting 11. Second guessing - talking about what's gone wrong, or right, as a way of altering mode of attack 12. Firefighting and marital relationships 13. The fire boat - development & organization of a dive team