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Mastering Fireground Command - Anthony Kastros, Brian Brush

Mastering Fireground Command

Calm the Chaos!
Buch | Hardcover
580 Seiten
2024
Fire Engineering Books (Verlag)
978-1-59370-599-2 (ISBN)
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With more than 1,000 years of combined experience in command case studies by incident commanders from coast to coast, this book will improve communications, risk assessment, and accountability with less radio traffic, develop an aggressive team to save more civilian lives while keeping firefighters from unnecessary risk, and more.
This unprecedented text has more than 1,000 years of combined experience in command case studies by incident commanders from coast to coast. Why read this book? •Improve communications, risk assessment, and accountability with less radio traffic. • Develop an aggressive team to save more civilian lives while keeping firefighters from unnecessary risk. •Bridge the tactical gap between the incident commander and crews working at the front. •Apply military models of decentralization and empowerment to outpace the incident, regardless of type. •Integrate the latest data from Firefighter Rescue Survey and UL FSRI to maximize effectiveness. • Rapidly organize tactics and resources for house fires, apartment fires, hotels, motels, commercial buildings, taxpayers, big boxes, strip malls, row houses, high-rises, Maydays, vegetation fires, wildland urban interface, multi-casualty incidents, hazardous materials incidents, and even unified command incidents.This book meets the FESHE curriculum for the Strategies and Tactics and Disaster Planning and Control courses, connects to job performance requirements (JPRs) of NFPA 1021 for Fire Officers I–IV and is consistent with the most current NFPA, NIMS and FIRESCOPE standards and expectations.

Brian Brush got his start in the fire service in 1996 as a high school volunteer in Forestville, California. While attending Oklahoma State University School of Fire Protection Engineering, he worked as a training technician at Oklahoma State Fire Service Training and returned to California to work as a wildland firefighter as a seasonal in summers of 1998–2000 with Cal Fire. He began a career at West Metro Fire Rescue in Lakewood, Colorado, as a firefighter paramedic in 2002. In his 13 years at West Metro, he was promoted to company officer, worked in special operations companies, and served as a rescue specialist with FEMA US&R CO-TF. He returned to Oklahoma to be closer to family in 2015. He is currently the training chief at Midwest City Fire Department. Brian holds a master’s degree in Fire and Emergency Management from Oklahoma State University, is a designated chief training officer through the Center for Public Safety Excellence, and is a graduate of the National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program. An author for Fire Engineering since 2009, an instructor at FDIC since 2011, and FDIC keynote speaker in 2023, Brian is a Fire Engineering editorial advisor and serves on the FDIC advisory board. Anthony (Andoni) Kastros began his fire service career in 1987 and retired as a battalion chief with Sacramento Metro Fire District after 32 years of active service. He is the founder of TrainFirefighters.com. and is the author of the Fire Engineering book and video series Mastering the Fire Service Assessment Center, 2nd edition. The text is used widely throughout the United States for officer development. Anthony also authored the 3-part series Mastering Fireground Command—Calm the Chaos. This Fire Engineering Books series focuses on fireground strategy, tactics, and ICS using actual incidents, video, and simulations. In addition, Kastros authored the video Mastering Unified Command—From Hometown to Homeland. The video is focused on bridging the gap between fire and law for a true unified response and command platform to face the new normal that is prevalent in America today. The video features many experts from around the United States, including former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta. Kastros is an FDIC-International instructor, was the keynote speaker at FDIC 2013, and is the recipient of the 2019 George D. Post Instructor of the Year Award from the International Society of Fire Service Instructors and Fire Engineering. Anthony hosts The Command Show, a monthly blog radio available from Fire Engineering. As a USAR Team Manager with Sacramento Task Force 7, he deployed to Ground Zero on 9/11. Anthony spent 4 years with a Type 1 Incident Management Team. He and his team at Train-Firefighters.com teach command, tactics, leadership, mergers, strategic planning, and labor/management relations throughout the United States. His faith and family are the most important things in his life.

Foreword by John Norman
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 History of Command
Chapter 2 Command Philosophy and Mindset for Modern Incidents
Section I: Fundamentals of Incident Command
Chapter 3 Incident Command Professional Qualifications, Development,and Standards
Chapter 4 Anatomy and Physiology of an Incident
Chapter 5 Size-Up, Risk/Gain Management, and Communications
Chapter 6 Aggressive Command and Tactics for Life
Chapter 7 Incident Planning and Organizing
Section II: Commanding Structure Fires
Chapter 8 Single-Family Dwellings
Chapter 9 Multi-Family Dwellings, Hotel, and Motel Fires
Chapter 10 Commercial Fires
Chapter 11 High-Rise Fires
Chapter 12 Rapid Intervention and Maydays
Section III: Commanding All-Risk Incidents
Chapter 13 Vegetation Fires
Chapter 14 Hazardous Materials Incidents
Chapter 15 Multi-Casualty Incidents
Chapter 16 Unified Command
Section IV: Appendixes
Appendix A: Los Angeles City Fire Department Informational Summary—Green Sheet
Appendix B: Tactical Review Guides
Appendix C: Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education Model Curriculum: Strategy and Tactics (CO279)
Appendix D: NFPA 1021: Fire Officer Professional Qualifications for Emergency Services Delivery and Emergency Management
Appendix E: Quick Action Plans—Leveraging High-Rise Building Intelligence for Incident Commanders
Appendix F: Report Writing
Glossary
Review Questions Key
Index
About the Authors

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.3.2024
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Themenwelt Technik Bauwesen
ISBN-10 1-59370-599-9 / 1593705999
ISBN-13 978-1-59370-599-2 / 9781593705992
Zustand Neuware
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