House Fires
House Fires

Author: Jerry Knapp

Publisher: Fire Engineering Books

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1593704127

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House Fires by Jerry Knapp & Chris Flatley provides a practical and comprehensive guide to strategy and tactics to fight house fires. Features and Benefits: --Interactive scenarios based on fireground experience to help develop your fireground decision making --Compilation of the best strategy and tactics for house fires from many experienced fire service experts --Firefighters: critical information, insight, and understanding of strategies you will be expected to execute on the fireground including size up, search/rescue, fire attack, ventilation, and engine and truck operations --Fire officers: scenario-based practical application of traditional and modern approaches to house fires --Students of fire suppression: a comprehensive text including the latest research on our most important alarm Examine and practice what must be done for you to determine how best to develop your strategy and tactics at your most important alarm—the house fire. Use this book as a reference as your career progresses—from firefighter to line officer to chief— after you experience different fire situations. You will gain a deeper understanding from the practical scenarios to improve your decision-making skills.

25 to Survive
25 to Survive

Author: Capt. Daniel Shaw

Publisher: Fire Engineering Books

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1593703090

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Two seasoned fire officers take an in-depth look into the causes of line of duty deaths in residential building fires, and offer incident recommendations. This book is designed to provide firefighters and fire officers “street proven” tips, techniques, and company-level drills that address and overcome the 25 most common errors that occur at residential building fires.

Putting a "Lid" on Food-on-the-Stove Fires
Putting a

Author: Stan Tarnowski

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-05-05

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1365937348

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Putting a "Lid" on Food-On-The-Stove-Fires was written to be a simple guideline for any and all fire departments wishing to make a direct impact on the reduction of stove top-pan fires which will ultimately reduce civilian and firefighter injuries, fatalities, and the loss of property throughout the country. The guideline is based on the recognition and use of available high end heat limiting technology (HEHLT) that can be installed on all electric coil type burners used for cooking. The premise is that the heat limiting sensor technology used in a conventional electric coil burner can stop the maximum heat at below the auto-ignition temperatures for normal cooking oils, hence eliminating the chance for pan fires to occur. The guideline provides for a step by step process that is simple to use, and that every fire prevention office can put together for senior management (e.g. Fire Chief).

Vacant Residential Building Fires
Vacant Residential Building Fires

Author: Barry Leonard

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 1437938280

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. This report is based on 2006 to 2008 data from the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). According to the report, an estimated 28,000 vacant residential building fires occur annually in the U.S., resulting in an estimated average of 45 deaths, 225 injuries, and $900 million in property loss. Vacant residential fires are considered part of the residential fire problem as they comprise approximately 7 percent of residential building fires. In addition, intentional is the leading cause of vacant residential building fires which are more prevalent in July (9 percent), due in part to an increase in intentional fires on July 4 and 5. Finally, almost all vacant residential building fires are non-confined and half spread to involve the entire building. Charts and tables.

On the Frontlines of the Welfare State
On the Frontlines of the Welfare State

Author: Barry Goetz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1317299612

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Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities. Public safety protections promote what T.H. Marshall called "social rights" of equitable citizenship. Frontlines of Welfare State shows how public safety agencies function as welfare state agencies, responsible for a range of essential public functions including emergency service, criminal investigation, regulatory oversight and social service outreach. Furthermore, this volume shows how public safety agencies are being asked to absorb more social welfare functions amidst cut-backs in other areas of the welfare state. Two areas of public safety are examined: arson control and fire prevention, especially within the contexts of urban change and gentrification, and community policing, especially as a mechanism of expanding drug treatment service and prevention programs. Facilitating a greater understanding of institutional biases within the state built around organizational structures, procedures and cultures and their impact on social outcomes, this original and exciting book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Policing and Fire Control, Public Policy and Administration, Drugs and Substance Abuse and White Collar Crime.