The First Responder Handbook: Fire Service Edition is an information-packed guide providing first responder education for fire service professionals. Written by emergency response experts and specifically designed for firefighters, this text presents information in a way that will feel familiar to anyone in the fire service. It covers safety for first responders, patient care principles, emergency response tactics, and even first responder actions for incidents involving terrorism. This street-smart book fulfills the U. S. Department of Transportation's requirements for first responder certification while offering firefighters valuable emergency medical training.

First Responder Handbook: Fire Service Edition

Engineering & Transportation

Walter, Andrea A.

Rutledge, Marty

Edgar, Chris

Engineering

Delmar/Cengage Learning

Intended as a supplement for the First Responder Handbook, fire service and law enforcement edition, pocket guide provides guidelines on safety, anatomy and physiology, assessment and treatment, terminology, and medications. Concise easy-to-use format with abundant color illustrations. Wire-spiral binding.

First Responder Pocket Guide: Fire Service and Law Enforcement Editions

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Delmar Pub

Text is designed to accompany both the fire service and law enforcement editions of the First Responder Handbook, c2003. Provides questions geared to prepare the students for First Responder National Certification. Easy-to-read format provides 'streetsmart tips' and 'street stories.' Softcover.

First Responder Handbook Study Guide

Written by a group of emergency response professionals from a broad spectrum of public safety and emergency services, this new edition of the First Responder Handbook provides specialized instruction with a focus on emergency medical service training and education that fulfills the requirements for first responder certification as outlined by the National Department of Transportation (D.O.T). This book focuses on first responder education for law enforcement personnel, and offers important concepts, skills, and procedures that enable law enforcement officers to provide quality emergency medical care are offered, including safety and ethical considerations, patient care principles, emergency response tactics, and first responder reactions to incidents involving terrorism. The book also includes special sections specific to law enforcement officers. Among those are: assisting other emergency response personnel during vehicle extrication; traffic control; prisoner care and transport; and the use of less lethal weapons.

First Responder Handbook: Law Enforcement Edition

Davis, Robin

Criminal Law

Cengage Learning'

All the "must-have" information necessary for a complete understanding of vehicle rescue training is highlighted in this straightforward new book that is based on the 2003 edition of NFPA Standard 1670, Operations and Training for Technical Rescue Incidents. It comprehensively examines all emergency service response challenges and techniques that are involved with vehicle incidents and extrication. Readers will gain the first-hand knowledge and skills needed to safely and effectively extricate victims from pin or entrapment situations, while attaining a basic understanding of vehicles and internal structures that includes recent advances in the field, such as air bags and hybrid engine technology. Valuable for college level instruction, as well as a training manual and reference tool for emergency response agencies and departments, this book provides a practical approach to critical job skills.

Vehicle Rescue Handbook

Politics & Social Sciences

Andrews, Byron F

Burrus, John

Social Sciences

Exam Preparation for Firefighter I &amp; II offers aspiring firefighters the essential practice they need to successfully pass any certification exam. Based on Bloom's Taxonomy, the book guides the learner through various phases of testing, beginning with comprehension questions, application and analysis, and then following up with evaluation questions. Each phase includes three, 100-question exams to allow learners to practice answering questions at each level, as well as target areas needed for further study. The answers are provided following each exam, and each question is accompanied by references to the Firefighter's Handbook, 2nd Edition, the NFPA Standard 1001, 2002 Edition, as well as insightful rationale that encourages self-study. A final exam consisting of 200 questions of the various types, is also included at the end of the book, once learners have mastered the previous levels.

Exam Preparation for Firefighter I & II

Hawley, Christopher David

Promote good health and safe practices in your fire department with the simple fitness program outlined in THE FIREFIGHTER'S FITNESS HANDBOOK. Beneficial to the both the individual firefighter, as well as the entire department, this bookprovides a total health evaluation and fitness program designed specifically for firefighters. This book focuses on the special needs of the firefighter and is Built around the joint labor management Wellness-Fitness Initiative (WFI) and compatible with both the NFPA standard 1583, and the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives. The book begins by covering the stress levels and physical risks inherent to the job itself, then identifies the principles of successful fitness program design tohelp firefighters evaluate their own health and fitness levels and program goals. Proper nutrition, the importance of mental training, and a look at common firefighter injuries illustrates the critical role that physical fitness plays in the success and well-being of our nations firefighters.

The Firefighter's Fitness Handbook

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wasser, Al

Exercise & Fitness

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