Technical Rescue Operations
Planning, Training, and Command
Will be published approx. on 30. August 2004
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-1-59370-014-0 (ISBN)
Description
The new rules of rescue have improved the way firefighters and other first responders are able to detect, locate, treat, and extract trapped victims in practically any situation by emphasizing factors like innovative training, better equipment, and more intelligent planning by well-informed decision-makers. Whether you live in an urban or rural fire district, working for a paid or volunteer department, increasingly your fire department will be called upon for rescue. Technical Rescue Operations, Volume I: Planning, Training, and Command is a groundbreaking book that lays the framework for responding to technical rescues and disasters of all types in the safest and most effective manner.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Tulsa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1225 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59370-014-0 (9781593700140)
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Person
Larry Collins has been a captain of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's central USAR Company since 1990. He has been involved in rescue operations worldwide, including the Pentagon collapse during the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the Alfred P. Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City, as well as numerous natural disasters such as the Northridge (CA) earthquake. Collins has been awarded multiple medals of valor for distinguished service.