Fire Scene Discipline: True Stories of Close Calls tackles fire attack, ventilation, rescue, collapse, and communication by examining real-life incidents such as Hurricane Katrina and the World Trade Center attacks. Firefighters consider several risks before they enter a structure for an interior attack, including size, location and intensity of the fire, stability of the structure, and safe access to the fire area. This book shares these close calls and other stories from author Danny Sheridan's 37-year career to illustrate the concepts of risk and reward on the fireground.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59370-586-2 (9781593705862)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
FDNY Battalion Chief Danny Sheridan has worked in Harlem and the Bronx for most of his nearly 30-year career, where he served as an operations section chief for the FDNY Incident Management Team, and he was a branch director during Hurricane Sandy. He has instructed at the Rockland County (NY) Fire Academy, is a frequent contributor to Fire Engineering magazine, and has a monthly column on FireEngineering.com. He authored the "Forcible Entry" chapter for Fire Engineering's Handbook for Firefighter I and II. In 2005, Sheridan founded Mutual Aid Americas, Inc., which was in operation from 2005 until 2011, with the mission of sharing the valuable knowledge and expertise gained during his decades of experience with Fire Departments in Latin America.
Introduction
Glossary
1. Soften the Target: An Offensive Transitional Attack or Quick Exterior Knockdown
2. Firecrackers and Fire Resistance
3. Young Firefighters Survive Flashover
4. Clutter, Cocklofts, and Chaos
5. Coordination of Vertical Ventilation with a Fire Attack
6. Communicating an Emergency in NYC
7. Multilevel Floor Collapse: Withdrawing Firefighters I
8. Multilevel Floor Collapse: Withdrawing Firefighters II
9. Fighting Fire in a High-Rise
10. You Don't Need Much Water If You Get It Where It Needs to Go
11. Katrina
Epilogue: 9/11
Index
About the Author
