Fire services Books
PennWell Books The Fire Chief's Handbook
Book SynopsisThe new Fire Chief’s Handbook, 7th Edition continues Fire Engineering’s 82-year tradition of publishing the definitive resource for advanced fire service training. The text has been completely updated to meet the changing environment and added responsibilities of the fire service. Returning authors have rewritten their chapter to address today’s leadership and administrative concerns, while new authors are also introduced to offer new perspectives.This comprehensive guidebook is designed for firefighters, company officers, and chief officers of all ranks and department types who want the latest information on the fundamentals of leadership in the fire service, as well as managing the day-to-day operations of a fire department.Features: New chapters on politics, public relations, labor relations, consolidation, and professional development. Expanded chapter on hazardous materials includes all of the specialty technical rescue Written from the perspective of a fire chief and how the topic relates to their job responsibilities Some chapters have been combined for a total perspective within one unit, such as Fire Department Apparatus
£88.50
PennWell Books Failure Point: How to Determine Burning Building Stability
Book SynopsisHoward J. Hill describes building construction features and how to recognise collapse dangers for all types of buildings and construction methods. The book contains a wealth of useful information, including discussions about: key elements that warn of imminent fire-induced collapse how to prevent injuries to operating personnel adapting risk/benefit techniques to manage firefighting personnel on the fireground how building codes affect fire-induced building collapses and much more! Failure Point is an important resource for chief officers, company officers, firefighters, and code officials. It meets Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) requirements for the Building Construction for Fire Protection course.
£70.55
PennWell Books Situational Awareness for Emergency Response
Book SynopsisSituational awareness is more complex than simply noticing what is happening around you. An emergency responder must capture clues and cues in the emergency environment, make sense of the information, and predict what will happen next.In Situational Awareness for Emergency Response, Richard Gasaway establishes the foundation of decision making and the role of situational awareness in high-risk public safety environments. He explains his original research on command decisions and the barriers that challenge a commander's situational awareness, and offers lessons learned and best practices that can assist responders in preventing or overcoming the situational awareness barriers. Situational Awareness for Emergency Response is an ideal resource for incident commanders, line personnel who make high-stress decisions, and students learning to develop and maintain situational awareness. Features and benefits: Realise how decisions are made in high-stress, high-consequence, and time-compressed situations Understand situational awareness and its role in making good and bad decisions Identify barriers that challenge a commander’s situational awareness Improve your decision making with the lessons learned and recommended best practices Use the 25-point checklist as an incident evaluation tool to improve safety
£62.25
PennWell Books 25 to Survive: Reducing Residential Injury and
Book SynopsisTwo seasoned fire officers take an in-depth look into the causes of line of duty deaths in residential building fires, and offer incident recommendations. This book is designed to provide firefighters and fire officers “street proven” tips, techniques, and company-level drills that address and overcome the 25 most common errors that occur at residential building fires.
£75.20
PennWell Books Elevator & Escalator Rescue: A Comprehensive Guide
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited second edition of Elevator & Escalator Rescue: A Comprehensive Guide is written by firefighters for firefighters and contains important information for technical rescue members, training officers, and fire company members alike. This book details the risks involved in elevator and escalator rescues and how to face them successfully.Key Features and Benefits: A comprehensive guide for dealing with elevator and escalator emergencies, including a complete review and updating of all chapters. Coverage spanning the evolution of elevators from their most primitive stages to include today’s high-tech innovations, modular, wind turbine, pneumatic and destination control systems as well as STM suspension belts. A new chapter (Chapter 35) containing information and the description about the Fire Service Access Elevator (FSAE). What they are, where will they be found, and building code changes that will help safeguard the firefighters using these elevators. This will include the use of a Narrative Sheet to ensure compliance with requirements. A new chapter (Chapter 33) on the Occupant Evacuation Operation (OEO) and Occupant Evacuation Elevator (OEE) elevators. These systems are already in place in new design ultra high-rise buildings in the US. They will be used to evacuate the occupants in these buildings. An updated elevator glossary of elevator and escalator terminology. Chapter ending questions to test students’ comprehension. Table of Contents The history of elevators Elevator system overview Traction elevators Types of doors, interlocks, and restrictors Hallway and elevator lobby features Car interior components and finish Hydraulic elevator systems Freight elevators and dumbwaiters Newer technologies Residential and special elevators Elevator safety philosophy and rules Rescue tools and equipment Elevator hoistway door unlocking device keys Poling guidelines Car top and side emergency exits Forcible entry: Types, use, and safety Managing passenger entrapment incidents Managing pinned-victim incidents Managing fall-from-heights incidents Managing elevator fires Case studies and lessons learned Automatic sprinkler systems and shunt trips The firefighters' emergency operation key: FEO-K1 Use of elevators during a building fire Training for safe and successful elevator rescue operations Escalator development history The escalator system Escalator safety philosophy and rules Escalator safety features Escalator rescue tools and equipment The A17 elevator task group study Fire service access elevator (FSAE) Occupant evacuation operation (OEO) and occupant evacuation elevators (OEE) Final thoughts Design guidelines for fire service access elevators (FSAE Guide) Fire service elevator narrative Sample standard operating guidelines
£67.15
PennWell Books Drawn By Fire, Too
Book SynopsisPaul Combs has returned with a second collection of his fire service editorials, Drawn by Fire, Too!An 18-year veteran firefighter and the editorial cartoonist for Fire Engineering magazine, Combs sees and captures moments that help us all take a good look at ourselves and learn from. He does it as no one else can—with humor, irreverence, respect, insight, compassion, and the skills of an award-winning illustrator.
£37.00
PennWell Books The Art of Reading Buildings
Book SynopsisThe Art of Reading Buildings focuses on the practical art of reading a building and applying its positive and negative attributes in developing a size-up for fireground operations that center on structure fires. First-due company officers, incident commanders, and safety officers will appreciate the practical “street-wise” lessons captured in the book. Chief officers, training officers, engineers, firefighters, and fire science degree candidates will benefit from the wide range of building construction topics covered in this text.Features include: Understand the technical and practical aspects of building construction Learn on-the-spot building construction assessment using the authors’ custom Rapid Street-Read Guides Develop a quick construction size-up for immediate application to fireground operations Recognize firefighter traps in newer and alternative construction methods This text covers objectives for the National Fire Academy’s Fire and Emergency Services in Higher Education (FESHE) Building Construction for Fire Protection course
£79.50
PennWell Books Safety and Survival on the Fireground
Book SynopsisChief Dunn – the recipients of FDNY’s Lifetime Achievement Award – has updated his classic book on how to identify and avoid hazards on the fire ground.In the second edition, readers will find a new chapter covering fire hazard identification and assessment, a new chapter on safety orders and actions, and updates to many chapters, including topics like flat-roof dangers and utility shutoff.
£79.90
PennWell Books Step Up Your Teamwork
Book SynopsisThrough powerful stories and proven principles, Step Up Your Teamwork teaches how to create momentum, prepare for success, prevent collapse, and turn a group of individuals into a high-functioning team. Frank Viscuso encourages each person to tap into individual talents, skills, and abilities and recognize how to use these skills to improve the team as a whole. The book discusses various proven firefighting team-building methods you can implement immediately.
£60.35
PennWell Books The Evolving Fireground: Research-Based Tactics
Book SynopsisDeputy Chief P.J. Norwood and Captain Sean Gray discuss how fireground strategy and tactics have evolved in light of fire research conducted around the world. They discuss the fire tetrahedron and how fuel, heat, and air all affect a fire’s growth or extinguishment. Gray and Norwood take the lessons learned from the research as well as their general knowledge of the fireground to illustrate safer and more effective ways to operate on the fireground. They discuss how to apply this new understanding of fire behavior to two of the fire service’s most important tasks: search and fire attack. This book is an important resource for anyone wanting to put new fire dynamics research to action.You will learn: How firefighting activities affect the fire tetrahedron To stay safe while working in the flow path on the fireground Search methods that isolate the firefighter and victim Fire attack methods that minimize the air fed to the fire Incident command size up and decision making
£53.10
PennWell Books It's Always About Leadership
Book SynopsisOne of the most demanding and stressful management jobs in existence, fire rescue leadership requires a set of clear and distinct skills. Given today’s work environment, everyone from the chief down to the newest recruit should be strong, courageous leaders. Every aspect of a successful operation relies on capable leadership at all levels.It’s Always about Leadership is written by an active firefighter for his fellow fire-rescue service members. Author Dennis L. Rubin discusses his 13 rules for leadership, which he has developed over a 35-year career in fire service. Alongside these rules, the author has curated case studies and created critical learning points, self-improvement plans, and discussion questions for learning reinforcement and to assist real-world applications.Key features: Leadership tools with real-life applicability Time-tested advice on navigating challenges and scenarios typical to fire service life Experience and perspective from a multi-decade fire service leader
£44.06
PennWell Books EMS by Fire: The Making of a Fire Medic
Book SynopsisFirefighter, medic and author Michael Morse bares his soul with first-person accounts from a 25-year career vividly defining the first responder’s vital role as a medical professional.EMS by Fire: The Making of a Fire Medic puts the reader at the scene “where people desperately wait, frantic, impatient, lonely, dying or dead ... the public we serve is not interested in who arrives at their emergency, as long somebody comes, preferably well trained and well equipped.” “Writing for and about firefighters and EMS personnel from the ambulance officer’s seat is tricky on the good days, career suicide on the bad, and quite gratifying on the rest. “The truth is that the ratio of misery to inspiration is greatly exaggerated in my writings, with misery beating inspiration by a 20-1 margin. Yet, it is those moments of inspiration that make the misery bearable ...”Features: Gain a better understanding of the jobs of fire-based EMS personnel Improve your skills and build teamwork between firefighters and EMS True stories and real-life scenarios from a veteran of the EMS and Fire service
£27.50
PennWell Books Pass it On 3: Making Good Progress
Book SynopsisIn Pass It On 3: Making Good Progress, Chief Billy Goldfeder has once again gathered leading firefighters, fire officers and chiefs from all over the country to share their wisdom and insight through short personal stories, life experiences and anecdotes. Including more than 80 contributors, Making Good Progress delivers tactics, operations, tragedy, humor, knowledge, and personal perspectives from a very wide range of extremely diverse personalities. Anyone from rookie to chief (and anyone who knows or plans to be a firefighter) will find loads of great stuff in this book.In cooperation with all of the contributors, Chief Goldfeder is donating 100% of his royalties equally between the DC Raymond Downey Scholarship Charity Fund, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, and the Firefighter Cancer Support Network.
£44.06
PennWell Books Challenges of the Firefighter Marriage
Book SynopsisIn Challenges of the Firefighter Marriage, author Anne Gagliano, the widely read Fire Engineering and FireLife.com columnist, has teamed up with her husband, Captain Mike Gagliano, to share their 30-plus years of personal experience on how marriage can thrive in the chaotic world of firefighting. In addition, they have called upon well-known and respected couples who share their stories of comfort and guidance for firefighter families everywhere.What you will learn: Aspects of this occupation that differentiate it from any other and how these impact marriage Essential conversations every firefighter couple should have The reality of sleep disruption and how to minimize its impact The importance of healthy intimacy in your relationship Why finances can be such a problem and ways to make it a solution Advice on how to deal with time off, kids, firefighter health, and so much more
£23.70
PennWell Books The Functional Fire Company: Positioning Small
Book Synopsis“Chief Scott Thompson combines his decades of experience and years of observation with today’s leadership skills and provides a path for the successful fire department to follow. The Functional Fire Company will take you step by step from being an ordinary fire department to one that defines excellence.” —Rick Lasky, Fire Chief (ret.)Table of Contents The Colony project Don't neglect the culture Sizing up fire department organizations for change and culture modification Fire service success: The basics Positioning the fire company for success and survival Effective supervision Courageous leadership Training essentials Training basics Being safe and managing risks: The functional fire company way The seven pillars of smart firefighting Coaching the functional fire company
£62.10
YouCaxton Publications A Set of Lusty Fellows
£24.00
Taylor & Francis Fire Investigation
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£147.25
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Fire Service Instructor Principles and Practice
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£51.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Aerial Firefighting
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£35.14
University of Arizona Press The Northern Rockies
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£999.99
University of Wisconsin Press The Great Peshtigo Fire An Eyewitness Account
Book SynopsisThis is an account of the calamitous Peshtigo fire of 1871, which burned 2400 square miles and killed more than 700 people. Included in this edition are archive photographs of Peshtigo, Wisconsin before and after the fire.
£10.92
Fire Engineering Books & Videos,a Division of PennWell Corporation Public Media Relations for the Fire Service
Book SynopsisMany fire chiefs have been overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of satellite trucks, news helicopters, and media personnel, when an incident in their jurisdiction attracts the media's attention. If reporters can not get fast, accurate information from fire officials, they'll get it from whomever they can. This book is intended to help fire departments master the basics of public relations.
£28.37
St Martin's Press Breathing Fire
Book SynopsisA dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that's not training for flames. That's not live fire.California's fire season gets hotter, longer, and more extreme every year fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California's blazes every year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have par
£16.37
Amazon Publishing That Forever Girl
Book SynopsisUSA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn’s second book in the Getting Lucky series brings heart, humor, and heat back to Port Snow. There are two little words every small-town man dreads: She’s back. Harper Sanders, the girl who was supposed to be my forever, has returned to Port Snow, Maine, for good—and she’s bringing back memories of our shared past. We once had a bright future together, but when tragedy struck, I threw it all away and pushed her out of my life. People in our small town think I’m cursed, but I know better. I did it all to myself. And now she’s creating a life of her own in the place where we first fell in love. I can’t fight my feelings for her—or the strong attraction that keeps pulling us together. But after all this time, can she forgive the past and fall in love with me all over again? Everyone hopes to find that forever girl…I just hope I haven’t lost mine for good.Trade Review“A terrific read.” —Once Upon a Book Blog “A heart-tugging, slow-burning, second-chance romance…This is a couple that I couldn’t help but root for.” —Red Cheeks Reads “If you love small-town romances that are rich in scenery, packed with sweetness, heat, and fun, and looking for an easy reading escape, look no further.” —Totally Booked Blog “Filled with emotion, laughter and loads of sexual tension…I dare you to not fall in love with Harper and Rogan!” —Nightbird Novels “Sweet, sassy, sexy, and sentimental.” —Harlequin Junkie “Second chance enemies-to-lovers romance at its finest.” —Bookishly Nerdy “I’m a sucker for second chance romances and add in the small town and I’m hooked. And who better to give me all the feels with a little humor and a mix of sexiness than Meghan Quinn.” —Embrace the Romance Praise for That Second Chance “With each book I read by Meghan Quinn, I become more in awe of her writing talent. She truly has a gift! That Second Chance was simply perfect!…” —Wrapped Up In Reading “…a sweet, sexy, swoon-worthy, MUST READ romance from Meghan Quinn, and I would HIGHLY recommend it! I fell head over heels in love with the quaint and charming small town of Port Snow, Maine, and all of its residents…” —The Romance Bibliophile “…I’m basking in the HEA goodness of That Second Chance, which gets five stars.” —Dog-Eared Daydreams “I adored the small town of Port Snow and the fabulous tight [bond] the Knightly family have not only with each other but their community as a whole.” —Book Angel Booktopia
£11.44
PennWell Books The Common Sense Approach to Hazardous Materials
Book SynopsisAn accomplished author with decades of experience working in the plastics industry and teaching the chemistry of hazardous materials to emergency responders, Frank Fire has updated his book covering the basic approach to hazardous materials. In the new third edition, each chapter has been revised (where required) to reflect changes since the second edition was published. For example, each chemical mentioned whose volume or usage has changed has been updated, including their usage as a chemical warfare agent. There is a new chapter that covers each class of chemical warfare agents. This is an excellent resource for emergency responders and those involved in departmental training programs or curriculum development.Table of ContentsIllustrations; Preface; Introduction; The chemistry of hazardous materials; Chemical compounds; Covalent bonding; Hydrocarbons; Hydrocarbon derivatives; Fire and pyrolysis; Flammable and combustible liquids; Compressed gases; Combustible solids; Cryogenic gases; Oxidizing agents; Plastics; Corrosives; Unstable materials: Organic peroxides and monomers; Toxicity; Radioactivity; Explosives; Water- and air-reactive materials; Chemical warfare agents; Glossary; Appendices; Index.
£83.00
