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LOGGER'S SHEET
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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