Fire, Blood and Forty Below - Softcover

Ziff, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759681090 ISBN 13: 9780759681095

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2002

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Fire, Blood and Forty Below is a nonfiction work based on a journal kept by a firefighter/medic being initiated into the world of emergency response. At first, the journal consists of impressions of what it is like to become a trained emergency responder, but the writing changes dramatically when the author becomes the victim of multiple gunshot wounds in the line of duty. As the responder's training, skills and competence increase, so too does the psychological stress, and its cumulative effects. The text documents this evolution, punctuated by often exciting, sometimes horrific, and occasionally bizarre emergency responses.The journal gives details of the training required to become a proficient firefighter/medic; the unique challenges to emergency response posed by the climatic extremes of Alaska; a variety of unusual events, like being assigned to protect the President of the United States, or taking on a bull moose with an ambulance; and rescues of lives and property, even performing mouth-to-muzzle resuscitation to revive a dog. But the details are also offered for the more traumatic experiences, like the shooting; the inability to save people despite heroic efforts; the frustration of political impediments to saving lives and property, even being repeatedly ordered to let families homes burn to the ground as they plead with the firefighters to save their property.Though the events described happened at a specific place and time, the lessons from those events are universal, and timeless.

Biografía del autor:

Alan Ziff has been an activeemergency responder since 1983, performing in the capacities of firefighter,emergency medical technician, dispatcher, and various command levels throughChief.¿ Aside from fire and medicalemergencies, Alan has also been trained in and responds to special tactics andrescue operations involving hazardous materials emergency response, confinedspace rescue, above/below grade rescue, and swift water rescue.¿ He has had emergency response relatedarticles published by various magazines, and has developed courses and in-housetraining manuals and texts for a variety of fire departments.¿ Alan has been a responding member offire/rescue departments in Alaska, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, and is presentlyChief of Training with the Deer Mountain Fire Protection District in Colorado(which is a 1,500 square mile territory incorporating five communities).¿ His emergency response-teaching careerincludes instructing career fire academies, industrial Fire Brigades, volunteerFire Departments, and private sector consultant companies.¿ Alan has been an adjunct instructor forNational Terrorism Preparedness Institute since November 1998.

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• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0759681090
• ISBN 13: 9780759681095
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328