Fundamentals of Fire Fighter SkillsWith the release of the Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, the National Fire Protection Association®, and the International Association of Fire Chiefs have joined forces to raise the bar for the fire service once again.Safety Is Fundamentals!The Second Edition features a laser-like focus on fire fighter injury prevention, including a dedicated chapter on safety. Reducing fire fighter injuries and deaths requires the dedicated efforts of every fire fighter, of every fire department, and of the entire fire community working together. It is with this goal in mind that we have integrated the 16 Fire Fighter Life Safety Initiatives developed by the National Fallen Fire Fighter Foundation into Chapter 2, Fire Fighter Safety. In most of the chapters, actual National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System cases are discussed to drive home important points about safety and the lessons learned from those real-life incidents. It is our profound hope that this textbook will contribute to the goal of reducing line-of-duty deaths by 25 percent in the next 5 years.Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills, Second Edition thoroughly supports instructors and prepares students for the job. This one-volume text meets and exceeds the Fire Fighter I and II professional qualifications levels as outlined in the 2008 edition of NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications. It also covers all of the Job Performance Requirements (JPRs) listed in the 2008 edition of NFPA 472, Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents, at the awareness and operations levels, including Section 6.2, Mission-Specific Competencies: Personal Protective Equipment and Section 6.6, Mission-Specific Competencies: Product Control.Click here to view a sample chapter from Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills, Second Edition. |
Contents
2 | 359 |
Introduction | 368 |
3 | 411 |
Specialized Response Roles | 417 |
Source of Authority | 426 |
Fire Service in the United States Today 16 | 433 |
Shutting Down a Hydrant | 455 |
Skill Drill 162 Performing the OneFire Fighter | 464 |
Traditional Lettering System | 223 |
Cooling the Fuel | 230 |
Forcible Entry | 291 |
Care for the Rope | 297 |
Knots | 303 |
Hoisting a Ladder | 315 |
Skill Drill 311 | 328 |
Skill Drill 124 Performing a ThreeFire Fighter | 328 |
Skill Drill 163 Performing the TwoFire Fighter | 471 |
Supply Hose | 473 |
Marking a Defective Hose | 477 |
Skill Drill 1611 Performing a Straight Hose Roll | 483 |
Skill Drill 1616 Attaching a Hose to a FourWay | 489 |
Skill Drill 1621 Performing an Accordion Hose Load | 496 |
Skill Drill 1626 Performing a Preconnected Flat Load | 502 |
Skill Drill 1632 Performing a Shoulder Carry | 508 |
Salvage Overview | 559 |
Skill Drill 1811 | 570 |
Skill Drill 1636 Advancing an Uncharged Hose Line | 578 |
Skill Drill 1637 Operating a Hose Stream from | 585 |
Skill Drill 202 Suppressing a Ground Cover Fire | 610 |
Skill Drill 215 Performing the OneFire Fighter Method | 623 |
Chapter 4 | 731 |
Classification of Fire Extinguishers | 217 |
a Small Adult from a Window | 328 |
375 | 328 |
830 | 328 |
Skill Drill 313 Donning a Level B Nonencapsulated | 31-3 |
Defensive Control Activities | 32-1 |
877 | 32-9 |
896 | |
Chemical Agents | |
Fire Prevention and Public | |
What Is Fire Prevention? | |
Common terms and phrases
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