Fire Officer: Principles & Practice 2nd ed

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION!  Second edition of Fire Officer:  Principles and Practice comes out this week.

Covering the entire scope of NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, 2009 Edition, Fire Officer combines current content with dynamic features and interactive technology to better support instructors and help prepare future fire officers for any situation that may arise.

The Second Edition features a laser-like focus on fire fighter safety. The text has integrated the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives developed by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. In each of the chapter National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System cases are discussed to drive home safety and the lessons learned from those incidents.

Some of the guiding principles added to the new edition include:

1. Description of the “Everybody Goes Home” and the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System, including over a dozen company officer near-miss examples throughout the text.
2. Description of the IAFC/IAFF Firefighter Safety and Deployment Study.
3. The latest fire fighter death and injury issues as reported by the NFPA® National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, IAFC, and IAFF, including results of a thirty-year retrospective study.
4. Changes in fire-ground accountability and rapid intervention practices.
5. Results of National Institute of Standards and Technology research on wind-driven fires, thermal imaging cameras, and fire dynamics as related to fire fighter survival.
6. The latest developments in crew resource management.

The Second Edition also reflects the latest developments in:

1. Building a personal development plan through education, training, self-development, and experience, including a description of the Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) program.
2. The impact of blogs, video sharing, and social networks.
3. How to budget for a grant.
4. Changes in the National Response Framework and National Incident Management System.

Link to publisher’s page with access to Chapter 9: Leading the Fire Company (HERE)

Ordering info HERE

Mike “FossilMedic” Ward

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