Structural Fire Fighting: Initial Response Strategy and Tactics, 2nd Edition
This all NEW book provides strategy and tactics for the incident commander arriving at structure fire incidents using the available responding resources. Learn to assess the fire situation, initiate a command structure, and deploy resources until the transfer of command or termination of the incident.
ALL NEW
Strategy and Tactics
15 Structure Fire Training Scenarios
NOW with Curriculum!
Be a better decision maker and incident commander at structure fire.
This all NEW book provides strategy and tactics for the incident commander arriving at structure fire incidents using the available responding resources. Learn to assess the fire situation, initiate a command structure, and deploy resources until the transfer of command or termination of the incident.
Strategies and tactics from national experts are presented and applied to hypothetical structure fire scenarios throughout the book.
NEW FIRE DYNAMICS CONTENT
The NEW fire dynamics content includes the latest research on fire behavior from UL and NIST with all new photographs and drawings that illustrate these new fire science concepts. Read and see the new science so that you can apply it to structure fires.
APPROPRIATE TRAINING FOR
All career and volunteer personnel who respond to single and multifamily dwellings incidents, commercial occupancies, and unique target or special hazards events.
MEETS FESHE OUTCOMES
The manual meets the requirements of the FESHE course outcomes for the Associates level course, “Strategies and Tactics.” This manual also broadens the knowledge of the strategy and tactics JPR’s in NFPA 1021,Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications.
GREAT CHOICE
The manual is a great choice for use in training agencies, college degree programs, and as a resource for firefighters and fire officers who serve as, or are training to be, incident commanders. Additional standards referenced in the manual include NFPA 920, 921, 400.
CHAPTER LIST
1. Fire Dynamics
2. Prefire Planning
3. Managing the Incident
4. Size-Up: Evaluation and Assessment
5. Strategy
6. Tactics
7. Residential Scenarios
8. Commercial Scenarios
9. Special Hazard Scenarios
Each of the last 3 chapters include 5 training scenarios that reflect real incidents that an incident commander will find when responding to:
* A residential structure fire
* A commercial structure fire
* A structure fire with special hazards
