
Rope Rescue Techniques: Principles and Practice
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
5th Edition
Published on 8. April 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-284-19510-1 (ISBN)
Description
Rope Rescue Techniques: Principles & Practice, Fifth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of rope rescue, including planning, PPE and equipment, medical considerations, evacuations, and special rescue operations. The fifth edition has been significantly revised to reorganize content by Awareness, Operations, and Technician levels.
Prepare to succeed in the classroom, on the training ground, and in the field.
- For fire and rescue professionals that want to bridge the gap between training and the field, the fifth edition reinforces proper skills performance by providing clear, visual instructions for awareness, operations, and technician level skills.
- A wealth of visual skill drills are included throughout to illustrate step-by-step instructions with photos for completing specific skills.
- New Size-up chapter helps define the role of the awareness-level rescuer in scene size-up, including how to interview witnesses to determine victim location and the scope of the incident
- Expanded coverage of preplanning and hazard identification, risk assessment, and maintaining situational awareness
- New content on SMART method to developing an Incident Action Plan, hazard-specific PPE, rope systems equipment, rigging principles, and active fall protection.
Can't find the digital product you are looking for? Please contact us directly at jbl@mare-nostrum.co.uk to purchase eBooks and Instructor Resources. We'd be happy to help.
Prepare to succeed in the classroom, on the training ground, and in the field.
- For fire and rescue professionals that want to bridge the gap between training and the field, the fifth edition reinforces proper skills performance by providing clear, visual instructions for awareness, operations, and technician level skills.
- A wealth of visual skill drills are included throughout to illustrate step-by-step instructions with photos for completing specific skills.
- New Size-up chapter helps define the role of the awareness-level rescuer in scene size-up, including how to interview witnesses to determine victim location and the scope of the incident
- Expanded coverage of preplanning and hazard identification, risk assessment, and maintaining situational awareness
- New content on SMART method to developing an Incident Action Plan, hazard-specific PPE, rope systems equipment, rigging principles, and active fall protection.
Can't find the digital product you are looking for? Please contact us directly at jbl@mare-nostrum.co.uk to purchase eBooks and Instructor Resources. We'd be happy to help.
More details
Edition
Fifth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sudbury
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 220 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
889 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-284-19510-1 (9781284195101)
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Previous edition
Loui McCurley | Tom Vines
Rope Rescue Techniques: Principles and Practice
Book
04/2022
5th Edition
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
€104.50
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Tom Vines has a wide spectrum of experience in urban and backcountry emergency services, along with years of work in training emergency responders and in publications.While in the east coast, he provided consulting services on high angle rope techniques to the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Special Operations Division and to theNational Headquarters of The International Association of Firefighters. While there, he responded to search and rescue calls to backcounty areas that included vertical caveemergencies.While in Montana, he served a Civilian Deputy for Search and Rescue (ret) for Carbon County and worked search and rescue responses in the mountain areas of Carbon Countyand adjoining Stillwater County. In nearby Yellowstone National Park, he has joined in mutual response training with national park rangers in specialties such as helicopterrappelling and helicopter short haul operations.His medical experience includes ambulance service in Billings, Montana and as an instructor in wilderness'EMS.On the national scene, he helped establish and coordinate the International Technical Rescue Symposium (ITRS). For 20 years, he edited the "Rescue Report," column, a reviewand analysis of actual rescue incidents nationwide. In addition to the three previous editions of High Angle Rescue Techniques, he was co-author forConfined Space and Structural Rope Rescue.