By Vincent Dunn, Deputy Chief (Ret.), Fire Department of New York
Learn about command presence • Develop a fireground strategy
A busy fire officer handles numerous tasks: administration, budgets, political interaction, medical response, fire prevention, inspections, etc. This book brings the active fire officer back to his job’s focus: Fighting fires and responding to emergencies.
Contents:
- Command presence
- Life-and-death decision making
- Locating a fire
- Size-up of a fire
- Command and control at a fire
- Hoseline placement
- Preventing fire spread
- Changing strategy
- Ventilation
- Terrorism
- Fireground communications
- Demobilization
- Fireground dangers
- Products of combustion
- Managing fireground risks and dangers
- Epilogue
- Answers to study questions
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