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Fire Rescue & Rescue Techniques

Confined Space and Structural Rope Rescue
Complete Guide For Technical Rescue From Confined Spaces
Complete guide for technical rescue from man-made confined spaces and industrial environments. covers all aspects of rescue operations. Topics include: team development, rigging and hauling techniques, and hazard reduction and compliance issues. Training manual and textbook. More than 350 full-color illustrations clearly show rigging and technical rescue systems.

Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response
Teaches The Proper Way To Respond To Confined Space Rescue Incidents
Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response utilizes a realistic, scenario-based approach to teach you-and your staff-the right way to respond to an incident involving a confined space. The authors provide intensive, step-by-step guidance through the challenging maze of training regulations, equipment needs, and procedures to keep your response team finely tuned and ready to go under any conditions

Confined Space Rescue
Methods and Hazards of Confined Space Rescues for Rescue Technicians
This basic text details the hazards of confined spaces, describes ways to control those hazards, then presents a simple method of conducting a confined space rescue operation. The text assumes that skill levels and types of equipment available to rescuers may vary, but recognizes that a common thread runs through all emergency confined space operations.

Confined Space Rescue
Comprehensive, Single Source Guide To Confined Space Rescues
Written by veteran rescuer Chase Sargent, this book is a comprehensive, single-source guide to such subject areas as hazardous atmospheres, detection equipment, breathing apparatus, ventilation, retrieval systems, backup teams, and operational procedures. Effective methods of training and regulations governing operations in confined spaces also are discussed at length.

Elevator & Escalator Rescue: A Comprehensive Guide
Methods and Risks Involved in Elevator & Escalator Rescues
Written by firefighters for firefighters, Elevator and Escalator Rescue: A Comprehensive Guide contains important information for technical rescue members, training officers, and fire company members alike. This engaging and assessable book details the risks involved in elevator and escalator rescues and how to face them successfully.

Emergency Rescue Shoring Techniques
Complete Resource On Shoring & Stabilization of Emergency Scenes
This book takes the reader step-by-step through the basic principles of emergency shoring operations so they may learn to operate in a safe and efficient atmosphere while conducting search and rescue operations in unstable environments. O’Connell thoroughly covers the engineering aspects involved in shoring and stabilization, carefully explaining how to maintain the strength and integrity of any and all structurally damaged or unstable elements such as beams, joists, girders, columns, arches, headers, or bearing walls.

Engineering Practical Rope Rescue Systems
Practical Look at Rope Rescue Systems for Beginners & Advanced Technicians
Beginners and advanced rescue technicians will learn from and enjoy this entertaining and educational book. A practical look at rope rescue systems from the point of view of an experienced professional, each chapter features exciting stories and real life situations. Photographs and illustrations highlight safety techniques and system rigging concepts.

Exam Prep: Rescue Specialist: Confined Space Rescue, Structural Collapse Rescue and Trench Rescue
Prepare for Your Rescue Specialist Certification or Training Exam
Designed to thoroughly prepare you for a Rescue Specialist certification, promotion, or training examination by including the same type of multiple-choice questions you are likely to encounter on the actual exam. To help improve examination scores, this preparation guide follows Performance Training Systems, Inc.’s Systematic Approach to Examination Preparation. It is written by fire personnel explicitly for fire personnel, and all content has been verified with the latest reference materials and by a technical review committee.

Exam Prep: Technical Rescue - Swiftwater
Prepare for Your Swiftwater Rescue Certification, Promotion or Training Exam
Designed to thoroughly prepare you for a swift water certification, promotion, or training examination by including the same type of multiple-choice questions you are likely to encounter on the actual exam. To help improve examination scores, this preparation guide follows Performance Training Systems, Inc. s Systematic Approach to Examination Preparation. Exam Prep: Technical Rescue Swift Water is written by fire personnel explicitly for fire personnel, and all content has been verified with the latest reference materials and by a technical review committee. Your exam performance will improve after using this system.

Exam Prep: Technical Rescue - Trench and Structural Collapse
Prepare for Trench and Structural Collapse Rescue Certification
Designed to thoroughly prepare you for a trench and structural collapse rescue certification or training examination by including the same type of multiple-choice questions you are likely to encounter on the actual exam. To help improve examination scores, this preparation guide follows Performance Training Systems, Inc.'s Systematic Approach to Examination Preparation. It is written by fire personnel explicitly for fire personnel, and all content has been verified with the latest reference materials and by a technical review committee.

Exam Prep: Technical Rescue - Vehicle/Machinery and Water/Ice
Prepare for Your Technical Rescue Certification, Promotion or Training Exam
Designed to thoroughly prepare you for a Technical Rescue certification, promotion, or training examination by including the same type of multiple-choice questions you are likely to encounter on the actual exam. To help improve examination scores, this preparation guide follows Performance Training Systems, Inc.’s Systematic Approach to Examination Preparation. Exam Prep: Technical Rescue - Vehicle/Machinery and Water/Ice is written by fire personnel explicitly for fire personnel, and all content has been verified with the latest reference materials and by a technical review committee. This manual includes coverage of the NFPA 1006, Standard for Rescue Technician Professional Qualifications.

Fire Department Special Operations
Excellent Guide For Creating & Operating Heavy Rescue Units
Fire Department Special Operations is an excellent guide for agencies and individuals in establishing, staffing, operating, and maintaining heavy rescue units in the many forms they may take. It is also an ideal training resource for the officers and individuals assigned the duties that a rescue firefighter must accomplish.

Fire Service Search and Rescue
Provides Information Necessary To Meet NFPA 1670 Requirements
The purpose of the IFSTA Fire Service Search and Rescue, 7th Edition, manual is to provide emergency response agencies and their personnel with the information needed to meet the Operations-level requirements of NFPA 1670, Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents (2004). Since there are currently no Operations-level professional qualifications standards for technical rescuers, this manual identifies the requirements that agencies must meet, and the tools and techniques that their personnel must master if they are to provide Operations-level rescue service within their jurisdictions.

Fundamentals of Technical Rescue
A Complete Awareness-Level Training Solution for Rescue Organizers
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) are pleased to bring you Fundamentals of Technical Rescue. Beginning with an introduction to technical rescue and progressing through discussions of tools and equipment, incident management, and conducting search operations, this text will introduce rescue organizations and their members to all aspects of the rescue process and the various environments in which they may be responding.

Ice Diving Operations
Complete Guide To Performing Ice Rescue Operations
Ice diving is one of the most technical kinds of diving—incorporating both overhead and confined space risks. The lack of proper training can have disastrous results. Ice Diving Operations is written for public safety divers, decision makers, EMS, sport divers, and instructors, and fills the void in education for each level. The extensive information presented on hypothermia, universal safety procedures and much more, make this book invaluable even for non-ice diving operations. Ice Diving Operations is designed to be used to create uniform procedures and guidelines to meet NFPA and OSHA standards.

Rescue Library Package - CD-ROM
Rescue Library Package on CD-ROM from Delmar Learning
This package contains the following books on CD-ROM: General Aviation Firefighting for Structural Firefighters, Wildland Firefighting Practices, Confided Space Rescue, and Engineered Practical Rope Rescue Systems. Find learning solutions to boost your career, augment your curriculum, improve your training courses or help you master new skills, from the leader in skills based solutions for educational institutions, businesses, and professionals

Rescue Robotics: DDT Project on Robots and Systems for Urban Search and Rescue
The Most Significant Findings from the DDT Project on Robotic Search Systems
Rescue Robotics presents the most significant findings of the DDT Project on robots and systems for urban search and rescue. This project was launched by the Japanese government in 2002 with the aim of applying a wide variety of robotics technologies to find a solution to the problem of disaster response, especially urban search and rescue in large-scale earthquakes. Rescue Robotics will be of interest to researchers and students, but will also prove useful for emergency response personnel. It offers an insight into the state of the art of rescue robotics and its readers will benefit from a knowledge of the advanced technologies involved in this field.

Surface Ice Rescue
Practical Information On Management & Techniques For Ice Rescue Teams
This book provides practical information on training, team management, equipment, and techniques for ice rescue teams. 214 pages.

Swiftwater and Flood Rescue Field Guide
Concise Field Guide Designed For Professional Swiftwater Rescuers
This field guide was developed with the special needs of professional rescuers in mind. Durable, weather resistant, and compact, this field guide is made for your convenience. The Swiftwater and Flood Rescue Field Guide is a concise aid designed for the professional rescuer. Technologies and methodologies are rapidly evolving, and the Swiftwater and Flood Rescue Field Guide is the most up-to-date field guide of its generation, providing the rescuer swift access to a comprehensive range of visually presented techniques and bites of essential information. Kept in your Personal Flotation Device pocket or in the front of the Rescue Appliance, this compact guide is ideal as a prompt briefing aid or plan check.

Technical Rescue: Confined Space, Levels I and II
Overview of the Hazards and Methods for Confined Space Rescues
Provides an overview of the hazards of confined spaces, managing those hazards, and when there is an emergency, the basic information that provides the foundation for rescue operations. The book drives the reader to become proactive by recognizing the hazards of a confined space, identifying which of those hazards can be managed and then to take the steps to manage the hazard.

Technical Rescue: Rope Rescue, Levels I and II
Detailed Instructions and Methods for Rope Rescue Techniques
Practical, thorough, and current, this guide to rope rescue offers you detailed instructions for numerous rope rescue techniques, as well as industry insight on how to apply these techniques effectively on scene.. Based on the 2008 NFPA Standard 1006 and 2009 NFPA Standard 1670 Technical Rescue: Rope Rescue provides expansive coverage, including commonly used knots, practical rigging methods, incident and scene management, lowering systems, tensioned rope systems, and more

Technical Rescue: Trench, Levels I and II
Overview of the Hazards and Methods for Trench Rescues
Meets the requirements for Chapter 8 of the 2008 Edition of NFPA Standard 1006 and focuses on the key topics of trench rescue, from exploring the characteristics of trench collapse to the necessary steps for developing an efficient trench rescue team. Offering comprehensive coverage of key concepts, including illustrating the breakdown of the trench, developing a response plan, implementing rescue operations and the necessary skills for successful leadership and management, this book helps the rescuer both prepare for the incident as well as understand how these skills contribute to a successful response

Technical Rescue: Water, Levels I and II
Covers All Disciplines of Water Rescue From Surface to Swiftwater Rescue
Finally, a book that covers all 5 of the sub-disciplines of water rescue – in a single resource! TECHNICAL RESCUER: WATER is based on the NFPA 1006 Technical Rescuer Standards, and covers everything from surface water rescue and ice rescue to swiftwater rescue, surf rescue, and more. Perhaps most importantly, the author recognizes that different agencies have different processes, and incorporates that by discussing all of the various types of equipment and how it can be used.

Trench Rescue: Awareness, Operations, Technician
Comprehensive Guide to Rescue Operations in Trench Emergencies
Covers everything from basic concepts of risk benefit to practical procedures for technician-level trench protective systems. The Second Edition includes current information on trench tools and equipment, PPE, rescue system preparation, types of collapse, hazard control, and more. The text includes up-to-date coverage of: NFPA 1670, Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents, 2004 Edition, Chapter 11: Trench and Excavation NFPA 1006, Standard for Rescue Technician Professional Qualifications, 2003 Edition, Chapter 11: Trench Rescue OSHA CFR § 1926 Subpart P.

Vehicle Extraction: A Practical Guide
Step-By-Step Guide For Extricating Trapped Victims in Vehicles
Extricating trapped victims from vehicles is the most common type of rescue performed by firefighters. By mastering the basic tools used in extrication, departments of all types can increase their effectiveness at the rescue scene. In this book, author Brian G. Anderson presents an all-inclusive guide to vehicle extrication.

Vehicle Rescue and Extraction
Extensive Guide Covering All Aspects of Vehicle Rescues and Extraction
Presents information related to all aspects of the challenges of the subject. Includes a new chapter on hybrid vehicles, latest advances in extrication equipment, crash scene photos, new vehicle technologies, 80 percent new illustrations, and study aids.