FIRE FIGHTER'S POCKET GUIDE, 3rd ed., AMEC Publishing, 2001
A handy pcoket guide to help with the major decisions facing fire department personnel.
CONTENTS: abbreviations and acronyms, building collapse, calling for additional companies, carbon monoxide investigation, cargo tanks and capacities, CHEMTREC information, classes of fire, combustibles and toxics (common), combustible solid dusts, confined space, construction types, container capacities, conversion formulas, decontamination, definitions, department vehicle information, drafting, electrical emergencies, explosive limits, exposure protection tactics, fire flow formulas, fireground priorities, fire investigation, fire streams, flashover warning signs, friction loss, gases (inert and lighter than air), hazmat, helicopter LZ setup, hydrant flow, IDLH and TLV, ignition temperature (wood), incident command chart, ladders, machinery extrication, melting points of metals, metric equivalents, mutual aid units, NFPA 704, personal information, PH, phone numbers - dept. personnel, phone numbers - local resources, placards, radio channel guide, rapid intervention crews, relay pumping, rope rescue, specific gravities, sprinkler systems, standpipe systems, station addresses, structural collapse markings, supply hose, tanker delivery rate calculator, terrorist incidents, training information, trench rescue, un hazard classes, vapor densities, water mains, water-reactive materials, water supply size-up, weights and measures, WMD
3" x 5 1/4", 72 pages, spiral-bound BF5668 / $18.95