Fireground Size-Up
English
By (author): Michael Terpak
Learn how fire ground size-up can make your operations efficient, effective, and safe.
Fire officers have many decisions to make when they approach a scenedecisions that could mean the difference between life and death. Pre-incident information combined with your on-scene size-up give the fire officer the advantage of knowing what to expect when arriving and operating at a fire scene. In this definitive guide to fireground size-up, author Michael A. Terpak gives fire fighters an in-depth and expanded review of 15 size-up points to help them make decisions that are efficient, effective, and safe.
In each different type of building referenced, Terpak covers the following points:
Fire officers have many decisions to make when they approach a scenedecisions that could mean the difference between life and death. Pre-incident information combined with your on-scene size-up give the fire officer the advantage of knowing what to expect when arriving and operating at a fire scene. In this definitive guide to fireground size-up, author Michael A. Terpak gives fire fighters an in-depth and expanded review of 15 size-up points to help them make decisions that are efficient, effective, and safe.
In each different type of building referenced, Terpak covers the following points:
- 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
- Special considerations
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