Trench Rescue: Awareness, Operations, Technicians - Softcover

C.V. Martinette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763742066 ISBN 13: 9780763742065

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Serves as a comprehensive reference text which will enable you to compare and contrast techniques and methodologies or support your current instructional material. Trench Rescue: Awareness, Operations, Technician, Second Edition is a full colour, highly illustrated teaching and learning publication that is supported by supplementary material for Instructor and Students. This textbook describes the main types of trench collapses, methods for classifying and testing soil, trench rescue equipment, the physics associated with lifting and moving, emergency scene assessment Author C.V. Buddy Martinette, one of the fire service s predominant experts on trench rescue, the publication covers everything from basic concepts of risk benefit to practical procedures and advanced trench protective systems. The Second Edition includes current information on safe systems of operation, tools and equipment, PPE, rescue system preparation, types of collapse, hazard control.

About this title

About the Author

Cecil V. "Buddy" Martinette Jr. is a career fire and rescue professional whose work experiences range from firefighter to Chief to Assistant County Administrator.' He is currently the fire chief in Wilmington North Carolina.' Chief Martinette started his career as a volunteer firefighter in the Virginia Beach Fire Department where he spent twenty-five years leaving as a Battalion Chief and Chief Fire Marshall.' He has also been the Chief of the Lynchburg Fire and EMS Department in Lynchburg Virginia and Assistant County Administrator in Hanover County Virginia.' '''Mr. Martinette holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Administration from Hampton University and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Troy State University. He is also a graduate of the National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program where he received the 2003 Executive Leadership Outstanding Research Award.' Chief Martinette has received the designation of "Chief Fire Officer" by the Commission on Chief Fire Officer Designation.Previously Buddy was an Instructor III with the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Fire Programs. He also served as a FEMA Incident Support Team Operations Officer and Task Force Leader for Virginia Task Force II, of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue Program.' His Urban Search and Rescue experience includes the Colonial Heights Wal-Mart Collapse, deployments for hurricanes Floyd, Fran, Francis, Charlie, Ivan, Katrina, and Rita and also the Murrah Federal Building Bombing and 9-11 Pentagon collapse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763742066
• ISBN 13: 9780763742065
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 318