Responding to ""Routine"" Emergencies - Hardcover

Frank C. Montagna (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0912212810 ISBN 13: 9780912212814

Publisher: Fire Engineering Books & Videos, 1999

Synopsis

This book is designed to heighten firefighter awareness of routine emergencies, to point out that a hazard potential exists in every emergency, and to open a discussion on the standard tactics used for them. Contents: Introduction I. Common calls Electrical emergencies Home heating emergencies Natural gas fires & emrgencies Water leaks Vehicle fires Mattress fires Trash fires II. Carbon monoxide: The new response The medical aspects of carbon monoxide The carbon monoxide emergency Home CO detectors UL 2032 Answers to study questions.

About this title

About the Author

Frank C. Montagna is a thirty-five year veteran of the Fire Department of the City of New York.  He has served as an officer for twenty-six of those years and the last eighteen as a battalion chief.  Battalion Chief Montagna holds a bachelor of fire science degree from John Jay College, where he has also taught as an adjunct professor.  As an author, his articles have encompassed many firematic subject areas.  He has been published in WNYF magazine and Fire Engineering magazine where he is also a contributing editor.  Trained by the International Association of Fire Chiefs as a carbon monoxide response instructor, he has lectured extensively in the United States and Canada on the subject of carbon monoxide.  Montagna holds seminars on firefighting related topics and has spoken at the Fire Department Instructors Conference and the New York City Fire Department Institute's Structural Firefighting Seminars.  He is the author of the best selling text, Responding to ""Routine"" Emergencies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fire Engineering Books & Videos
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912212810
• ISBN 13: 9780912212814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 245