The Firefighter's Handbook: Essentials of Firefighting and Emergency Response

by Cengage Learning Delmar and Delmar Thompson Learning

Book Overview

This full-color second edition features up-to-date, vital information on today's fire service combined with current hazardous materials and terrorism coverage -in one all-inclusive volume... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401835759
• ISBN13: 9781401835750
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
• Length: 980 Pages
• Weight: 4.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Great handbook

This is a great resource for firefighters. I went through the fire academy and spent the past few years using IFSTA Essentials to study with. I found the Firefighter's Handbook to be much more entertaining and enlightening. The chapters read alot easier and seem to be written for firefighters rather than students. It's loaded with more fire service history and many more tips and tricks of the trade than essentials. Highly recommend it.

a great book

Much better than the previously used texts at the local fire academy, and the skills sections make a good resource for in house drills.

Hey guy, buy no other book

This is the best handbook for fire departments to use in training new personnel. This text has more information than the IFSTA book and is much better written and edited. I also like the pictures this one has, especially the ones in the history section (mainly the one from Gettysburg). Go forth and purchase a hundred, no, a thousand copies for your department today!

This is a well thought out book

This is a great improvement over the standard Essentials of Firefighting put out by IFSTA. The writing is better, the graphics are outstanding and there is great background information on each subject.If you just want a textbook, purchase the IFSTA book. If you are interested in really reading and grasping the essentials then purchase this encyclopedia of knowledge and insight.

Firefighters Handbook:Essentials of Firefighting and Emergen

This book is much better than the IFSTA Essentials Manual. It does a better job on all the topics and also includes responses to Haz Mat and WMD incidents. No need to purchase another book. Excellent!