Author: Terpak, Michael
Price: $68.22
Category:Civil & Environmental Engineering
Publication Date:2019-06-19T00:00:01Z
Pages:339
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:1593704852
ISBN:13:9781593704858
Learn how fireground size-up can make your operations efficient, effective, and safe. Fire officers have many decisions to make when they approach a scene—decisions that could mean the difference between life and death. Pre-incident information combined with your on-scene size-up give the fire officer the advantage of knowing what to expect when arriving and operating at a fire scene. In this definitive guide to fireground size-up, author Michael A. Terpak gives firefighters an in-depth and expanded review of 15 size-up points to help them make decisions that are efficient, effective, and safe. In each different type of building referenced, Terpak covers the following points: –Construction concerns –Occupancy –Apparatus and staffing –Life hazard –Terrain –Water supply –Auxiliary appliances and aides –Street conditions –Weather –Exposures –Area –Location and extent of fire –Time –Height –Special considerations
