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Examines the complexities of disaster planning and control, covering the concepts of disaster management, development of disaster and emergency operation plans. This book helps the fire officer to study how the fire service has been involved with responding to various disasters.

Incident management system (IMS) is a tool that defines the role and responsibilities of each fire department member, allowing crew members to function quickly and efficiently upon arrival at the fireground - all the while meeting the commander's expectations. This book presents tactics to manage the fireground with more control and less chaos.

A collection of the 'Random Thoughts' columns from the ""Fire Engineering"" magazine. It covers topics such as basic tactics and strategy, decision-making, and incident management at various levels of the service.

Describes firefighting strategies for the most common types of fire scenarios and identifies specific firefighting problems presented to an incident commander, by occupancy and construction type. This book explains firefighting solutions and offers firefighting plans, standard procedures, action plans, ideas, guidelines, and explanations.

Provides a glossary of terms that will be useful to all responders to emergency situations. Section I includes terms common in matters relating to hazardous materials, chemistry, the environment, firefighting, EMS, protective clothing, radioactivity, chemical warfare agents, and other emergency topics. Section II is a comprehensive list of abbreviations and acronyms.

Offers a foundation for success and safety during high-rise and standpipe operations. This book includes good fireground habits.

Written for instructors, dive team captains, surface teams, and underwater personnel alike, this book offers definitive information on procedures for safe operations, proper methods of training, and how to make appropriate purchasing decisions.

Looks at some of the more unique events that firefighters must confront. These events can result in substantial loss and account for a large percentage of firefighter casualties. It is important to recognize, assess, and mitigate potential dangers at these incidents.

Firefighting is combat and should be viewed as a warrior's calling. Firefighters put themselves in harm's way to protect others, a selflessness rooted in the same noble drive as the military warriors who defend our nation. This book about combat is meant to be a guide for those who seek to follow a warrior's path, the path of the fire service warrior.

A guide for agencies and individuals in establishing, staffing, operating, and maintaining heavy rescue units in the many forms they may take. It is suitable for the officers and individuals assigned the duties that a rescue firefighter must accomplish.

Offers a look at both the similarities and differences in the engine company operations practiced by fire departments throughout the United States. This book discusses the equipment, staffing, and operations of engine company firefighters at structural fires and emergencies in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

Examines the dangers of structural failure caused by fire. This is the second edition of the first textbook written to warn firefighters, company officers, and fire chiefs about exactly how structures collapse when destroyed by fire. More importantly it instructs firefighters and fire officers in how to survive burning building collapse.

Covers the basic approach to hazardous materials. This book features a chapter that covers each class of chemical warfare agents. It is suitable for emergency responders and those involved in departmental training programs or curriculum development.

Presents a view of the personal and professional issues affecting a new fire chief and offers tools to address the issues successfully. This book provides guidelines for long-term career preparation; an understanding of the job search and selection process; and a fundamental plan for assuming command.

Offers a comprehensive approach to the assessment process. This book includes step-by-step test preparation, scoring strategies, and test-taking tips as well as study cues for exercises that involve structure fires, hazardous material incidents, structural collapse, and beyond.

This is the second in a three-volume series. Volume II covers responding to, managing, and conducting rescues in the "daily" setting of fire/rescue agencies. This includes the kind of technical rescues that confront firefighters and rescuers on practically a daily basis. This volume also explains how to handle more complex and large-scale rescue operations.

This book takes the reader step-by-step through the basic principles of emergency shoring operations so they may learn to operate in a safe and efficient atmosphere while conducting search and rescue operations in unstable environments.