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Both Books are excellent. I also think John Norman's book fills in the specifics of each firefighters duties. As a Chief Officer, your companies operate much more efficiently when they are organized, and know what you want.
There is no more powerful book, in simple terms, on how your job should be done. It works best in a paid department, however, position assignments make it also ideal for volunteer companies. I have been a Fire Officer for many years, and for the past 20 years trained officer candidate's on Assessment Type Exams.
It may require some small changes to fit the NFA Incident Management System. A must have, and must read for any serious fire officer candidate. There are too many variations and not enough "exacting" way to do your job as an Attack Officer, a Backup/Water Supply Officer, a Search and Rescue Officer, and a Ventilation Officer.
Serious Study of this book prevents freelancing, confusion on the fire grounds, and most importantly pushes one much higher on an assessment style promotion list.
A good first step into Incident Commend for new officers, and deep enough for the seasoned Chief. Our department uses this book for promotion exam material for Driver/Engineers. This is a well written book that puts together the pieces of firefighting to bring the reader a better overall undestanding of the "big picture". Lots of examples and real-world scenarios.
this book offers good advice to the newly appointed fire officers/acting officers for fire incident managment.
The writing is clear and information is realitive to day to day work. This book is helpful in every way.
I understand that's the way they do it in Toledo, but in other areas of the country things operate differently. A very good book but Mr. Coleman relates a little too much about his department (Toledo Fire Department)when providing examples.
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