Air Management for the Fire Service

✍ Scribed by Mike Gagliano, Casey Phillips, Phillip Jose, Steve Bernocco

Publisher: PennWell,Fire Engineering Books & Videos
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 688
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Chapters: History as Teacher; Time in a Bottle?; Saved by the Bell?; How Firefighters are dying on the Fireground; The Breath from Hell; NFPA 1404 and Air Management; The Phoenix Fire Tragedy: Bret Tarver's Legacy; Technology as the Answer: Nothing Can Go Wrong; Change-Resistance-Change; The Rule of Air Management; The Point of No Return; The Art of Not Breathing Smoke; Where Should Our Training Emphasis Be?; Ready �Read more...

Abstract:

Offers an explanation of how to develop and implement an effective air management program, for departments of various sizes. This book includes examples from international departments, technology �Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part 1 - The need
History as teacher
Time in a bottle?
Saved by the bell?
How firefighters are dying on the fireground
The breath from hell
Part 2 - The mandate
NFPA 1404 and air management
The Phoenix fire tragedy: Bret Tarver's legacy
Technology as the answer: Nothing can go wrong
Change - Resistance - Change
Part 3 - The solution
The rule of air management
The point of no return
The art of not breathing smoke
Where should our training emphasis be?
READY checks
Incident command and air management
Communication and air management
Weapons of mass destruction and hazardous materials incidents
Rapid intervention operations and air management
Surviving the mayday
Implementing air management in fire departments large and small
Air management as others do it
The myths of air management
Conclusion
Study questions.

✦ Subjects

Fire extinction -- Equipment and supplies. Fire prevention -- Equipment and supplies.

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