Title: Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics, 5th Edition Author: John Norman ISBN: 1593704186 / 9781593704186 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 642 Publisher: Fire Engineering Year: 2019 Availability: In Stock
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The ONE handbook thousands of fire officers and firefighters look to for safe, fireground-tested strategies and tactics.
With his fifth edition, Chief John Norman offers lessons learned during his extensive and time-honored career. Chief Norman imparts wisdom and experience by offering advice informed by actual outcomes from the fireground. This guide continues to be invaluable for firefighters aspiring to the officer level and those seeking to promote safety and effectiveness in their organization and the communities they serve by improving their own skills.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
This fifth edition conveys valuable information gained over the past several years from scientific research relating to the tactics that we use to the changes that have taken place within our communities. Failure to recognize change and adapt to it places a fire department at a great disadvantage and can cost lives and property.
The community changes that most directly affect the fire service today include faster, hotter, and more toxic fires and significantly reduced staffing in many fire departments. These are inescapable facts. Our challenge is to use the knowledge that is at our disposal to select the right tools, technologies, and tactics to safely and successfully adapt to and overcome these challenges.
Chief John Norman has updated his best-selling book for fire officers and firefighters to include:
A new chapter on fires in cellars and basements, which have taken on a deadlier aspect in recent years
How to safely deal with cumulative changes in the modern fire environment
The role of fire departments in terrorism and homeland security about specific threats from response to active shooters and sieges to bio-weapons
Divided into two parts—General Firefighting Tactics and Specific Fire Situations—Fire Officer’s Handbook of Tactics, 5th edition, begins with establishing ground rules for structural firefighting and then moves to specific situations of fires and emergencies in the most common structures and occupancies. The many photos, illustrations, and anecdotes provide readers with a greater understanding of the concepts and lessons in the text.
As new technologies are introduced into the modern fire service, the basic strategies of firefighting—protecting life, confining the fire, and extinguishing the fire—do not change. What changes are the tactics.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I : General Firefighting Tactics
Chapter 1 : General Principles of Firefighting Chapter 2 : Size-Up Chapter 3 : Engine Company Operations
Chapter 4 : Hoseline Selection, Stretching, and Placement Chapter 5 : Water Supply Chapter 6 : Sprinkler Systems and Standpipe Operations Chapter 7 : Ladder Company Operations Chapter 8 : Forcible Entry Chapter 9 : Ventilation Chapter 10 : Search and Rescue
Part II : Specific Fire Situations
Chapter 11 : Firefighter Survival Chapter 12 : Operations in Lightweight Buildings Chapter 13 : Below-Grade Fires : Basements and Subbasements, Cellars and Subcellars, and Crawl Spaces Chapter 14 : Private Dwellings Chapter 15 : Multiple Dwellings Chapter 16 : Garden Apartment and Townhouse Fires Chapter 17 : Store Fires - Taxpayers and Strip Malls Chapter 18 : High-Rise Office Buildings Chapter 19 : Buildings Under Construction, Renovation, and Demolition Chapter 20 : Fire-Related Emergencies : Incinerators, Oil Burners, and Gas Leaks Chapter 21 : Electrical Fires and Emergencies Chapter 22 : Structural Collapse Chapter 23 : Fire Department Roles in Terrorism and Homeland Security