Fireground Strategies, Second Edition

Deputy Chief Anthony Avillo, an active duty urban chief, has updated his highly readable and widely-adopted best-selling text, Fireground Strategies. The new second edition of his book covers fireground organization and operational safety as well as building construction and choosing a strategic mode of operation from the point of view of those in command of both the fireground and individual companies. In addition, specific occupancy types are explored in regard to command and firefighting concerns as well as life safety concerns. Used in conjunction with the Scenarios Workbook, Fireground Strategies, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive guide to organizing the fireground and maintaining control.

This book has been revised and expanded to include new material on decentralization, further incident reporting, and post-control activities; estate homes, New Millennium multiple dwellings; storage occupancies, strategic considerations of renovation and more.

Contents:

Foreword by Bobby Halton
Acknowledgments
Introduction
How to use this book
Incident command considerations
Size-Up, communication, and fireground organization
Strategic considerations of heat transfer
Strategic considerations of building construction
Strategic modes of operation
Private dwelling fires
Multiple dwellings
High-Rise operations
Contiguous structures: row houses, garden apartments, and townhouses
Small commercial occupancies: Mixed-Use occupancies, taxpayers, and strip-malls
Large commercial and storage occupancies
Strategic considerations for vacant and renovated structures
Limited intervention incidents: Strategic considerations of the first responder
Operational safety
Conclusion: Thoughts about the future
Index

Approx. 470 Pages/Hardcover/8.5x11/December 2008

See Also

Fireground Strategies Scenarios Workbook

Fireground Strategies, Second Edition and the Fireground Strategies Scenario Workbook

Fireground Strategies Scenarios Workbook, 2nd Edition