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Fireground Operational Guides
Deputy Chiefs Frank Viscuso & Michael Terpak

This important new book is designed to serve many purposes in the fire service, ranging from being a starting point and refresher guide for firefighters seeking promotions at any level, to being a field operational guide for on-scene Incident Commanders and Company Officers. It offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step action plan for firefighters working in Acting Capacities, and can be used when developing SOP’s, and when organizing and planning training evolutions. It’s definitely a book every firefighter, officer, and aspiring officer will want to own!

Approx. 290 Pages/Hardcover/8.5x11
ISBN10 1-59370-259-0

  • Operational guides and tactical worksheets
  • Structure fires
  • Electrical emergencies
  • Natural gas emergencies
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Water emergencies
  • Confined fires
  • Outdoor fires
  • Vehicle fires and accidents
  • Non-fire emergencies
  • Oil burner emergencies
  • General operations
  • Administrative
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Autographed by the Author

Common Valor
By DC Frank Viscuso

Most people are familiar with the term "Uncommon Valor". It refers to when an ordinary person is faced with extraordinary and sometimes horrific circumstances but rises above those circumstances to display unprecedented courage. The term has mostly been linked to soldiers in war. The reason this book is titled Common Valor is simple. The firefighters whose stories are told within these pages are also ordinary people who have performed boldly under the most difficult of circumstances; however, among the fire service these stories are common. Stories such as these can be found anywhere.

It has been said that, "at every working fire there is an invisible wall that separates reason from insanity. A firefighter's job is to find a way to break through that wall in order to do the job that lies ahead." Common Valor, True Stories from New Jersey's Bravest, features powerful first-hand stories about individuals who have done just that.

For more information on the book Common Valor please visit www.commonvalor.com
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Fireground Size-up
By DC Michael Terpak

This book is designed to give the reader an in-depth review of 15 recognized size-up points for the different occupancies listed. In each different type of building referenced, the author covers the following: construction concerns, occupancy, apparatus and staffing, life hazard, terrain, water supply, auxiliary appliances and aides, street conditions, weather, exposures, area, location and extent of fire, time, height, and special considerations. This book is of interest to firefighters and fire officers studying for promotional exams, current fire officers who wish to study proven information about a particular type of building and its concerns, and college and fire academies who deliver courses related to fire officer training and education.

Features:
• Comprehensive guide to proven size-up points
• Proven experience to make the fireground safer and more efficient
• Discussion questions included with each chapter

Contents:
• The Fifteen Points of Size-Up
• Private Dwellings
• Multiple Dwellings
• Taxpayers/Strip Malls and Stores
• Garden Apartments and Townhouses
• Row Frames and Brownstones
• Churches
• Factories, Lofts, and Warehouses
• High-Rises
• Vacant Buildings

406 pages/Hardcover/2002
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Assessment Center Strategies and Tactics
By DC Michael Terpak

Firefighters who want to advance must be skilled not only on the fireground, but in the assessment center as well. In Assessment Center Strategy and Tactics, Deputy Chief Michael A. Terpak provides a comprehensive approach to the assessment process. He includes step-by-step test preparation, scoring strategies, and test-taking tips as well as study cues for exercises that involve structure fires, hazardous material incidents, structural collapse, and beyond.

Features & benefits:
• Real-world exercises
• Measurable answer keys
• Wisdom from a firefighter/fire officer with 32 years' experience in one of the nations most congested and busiest cities

Read Assessment Center Strategy and Tactics and broaden your understanding of the true test of the knowledge, skills and abilities that awaits you as you climb the ladder to success.

Approx. 170 Pages/Hardcover/8.5x11/March 2008
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