Well, you know where this is going. Suddenly the snowy egrets don''t sleep so peacefully in the mangroves and sweet, compassionate Geoff is Gary Gilmore. He doesn''t play with Phil anymore, unless forced to, and for him, interactions with Phil are beyond frosty. Phil, of course, is oblivious. He cooks one night during every golf trip, and we all love him for that, but we don''t realize that he thinks cooking relieves him of all other golf-trip duties, including but not limited to picking up pins. He subscribes to the "Everybody Has a Role" theory of golf trips, which, though once espoused by this magazine, was not cleared in advance with the rest of us. It was especially not cleared with Geoff, who finds Phil''s chicken and rice unusually gassy.

The dispatcher activates emergency traffic tones, then announces a collapse where firefighters have been trapped. Command adjusts tactics from suppression to rescue, placing attack lines or elevated streams in the collapse area to protect trapped firefighters from the advancing fire.Prompt rescue of firefighters lost or down in burning buildings is critical. There''s an extremely narrow window of survivability for firefighters out of SCBA air supply or trapped by approaching fire. Normally, rescuers attempt to determine the last known location of the lost firefighters by tracing hose lines, then looking for arms and legs, listening for shouts, taping noises, breathing, moans, radio broadcasts, audible tones from PASS devices, or the sounding of SCBA bells.

Choosing the wrong tool can also overwork the user. For a given bit size and material, it takes more effort and strength to make a hole with a hammer drill than with a rotary hammer. This is a matter of weight distribution and leverage: With a rotary hammer, the heft of the tool itself provides much of the drilling force; hammer drills are much more dependent on pressure applied by the operator. This isn''t necessarily a problem for drilling an occasional hole or two, but for heavy repetitive use, a rotary hammer is the clear winner.

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