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Strategic & Tactical Considerations on the Fireground, 4th edition
Published by Pearson (September 15, 2016) © 2017
- Jim Smith
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Offers a lifetime of real experience for readers to apply in their firefighting career
- Draws on author, Chief James P. Smith, 41 years’ of experience in a large metropolitan fire department as a firefighter and fire officer who achieved every civil service rank and held the highest rank of deputy chief for over 20 years.
- Content is informed by Chief Smith’s 30+ years of classroom experience to students throughout the United States.
- Follows FESHE Course Objectives and Outcomes and written to relative NFPA Standards.
- Offers a consistent approach that discusses strategic decisions as well as tactical operations.
- Uses easy-to-understand understood language to discuss what needs to be accomplished for safe and successful operations.
- Contains systems that prepare a firefighter for handling a wide variety of situations on the fireground.
- UPDATED: Includes On Scene stories—encapsulated real-life scenes that allow readers to share the author’s experiences as well as significant incidents that have occurred in other locales. These real-life occurrences permit readers to increase their cue-based decision-making skills, skills normally accumulated through training or during actual situations at an incident scene.
Provides updated coverage on current trends and practices
- UPDATED: Chapter 1 now includes Safe Operation of Fire Department Apparatus, which has been moved from the appendices.
- Shares new research findings and information developed by the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the effects of ventilation on a fire.
- UPDATED: Chapter 2 now contains Emergency Operating Centers (EOCs), which has been moved from the appendices.
- UPDATED: Chapter 3 discusses an Agency Administrator’s briefing;
- Discusses the UL and NIST tests on how flow paths occur and their impact on a fire, as well as the use of an offensive-exterior fire attack in dwelling fires;
- And discusses ICS Form 208 Safety Message/Plan.
- UPDATED: Chapter 4 discusses the needed change from Vent, Enter, and Search (VES) to Vent, Enter, Isolate, and Search (VEIS).
- UPDATED: Chapter 6 offers an expanded discussion on the Safety Officer’s role;
- Near miss information;
- Electrical hazards and firefighting safety;
- and Additional discussion on accountability and Maydays.
- UPDATED: Chapter 7 discusses new basement fire information;
- Updated information on wildland urban interface fires;
- and Numerous USFA statistics gleaned from the National Fire Incident Reporting System on residential fires, vacant building fires, and civilian fatalities in residential fires.
- UPDATED: Chapter 8 expands from acknowledgment and discussion of active shooter incidents in schools to other active shooter events, including churches, movie theaters, government and military installations, and so on.
- UPDATED: Chapter 10 discusses changes in the handling of hazardous materials since the United States adopted the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). It looks at the impact of GHS on responding firefighters and clarifies the difference between the previously used Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and the current Safety Data Sheets (SDS);
- Looks at the impact of some recent hurricanes and superstorms;
- and Now includes information on derechos under Natural Disasters.
- UPDATED: Chapter 11 introduces a format that can be used for a formal critique.
- UPDATED: Includes brief, current summaries of NIOSH investigative reports of firefighter fatalities.
- Lists the
Offers a lifetime of real experience for readers to apply in their firefighting career
- UPDATED: Includes On Scene stories—encapsulated real-life scenes that allow readers to share the author’s experiences as well as significant incidents that have occurred in other locales. These real-life occurrences permit readers to increase their cue-based decision-making skills, skills normally accumulated through training or during actual situations at an incident scene.
Provides updated coverage on current trends and practices
- UPDATED: Chapter 1 now includes Safe Operation of Fire Department Apparatus, which has been moved from the appendices.
- Shares new research findings and information developed by the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the effects of ventilation on a fire.
- UPDATED: Chapter 2 now contains Emergency Operating Centers (EOCs), which has been moved from the appendices.
- UPDATED: Chapter 3 discusses an Agency Administrator’s briefing;
- Discusses the UL and NIST tests on how flow paths occur and their impact on a fire, as well as the use of an offensive-exterior fire attack in dwelling fires;
- And discusses ICS Form 208 Safety Message/Plan.
- UPDATED: Chapter 4 discusses the needed change from Vent, Enter, and Search (VES) to Vent, Enter, Isolate, and Search (VEIS).
- UPDATED: Chapter 6 offers an expanded discussion on the Safety Officer’s role;
- Near miss information;
- Electrical hazards and firefighting safety;
- and Additional discussion on accountability and Maydays.
- UPDATED: Chapter 7 discusses new basement fire information;
- Updated information on wildland urban interface fires;
- and Numerous USFA statistics gleaned from the National Fire Incident Reporting System on residential fires, vacant building fires, and civilian fatalities in residential fires.
- UPDATED: Chapter 8 expands from acknowledgment and discussion of active shooter incidents in schools to other active shooter events, including churches, movie theaters, government and military installations, and so on.
- UPDATED: Chapter 10 discusses changes in the handling of hazardous materials since the United States adopted the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). It looks at the impact of GHS on responding firefighters and clarifies the difference between the previously used Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and the current Safety Data Sheets (SDS);
- Looks at the impact of some recent hurricanes and superstorms;
- and Now includes information on derechos under Natural Disasters.
- UPDATED: Chapter 11 introduces a format that can be used for a formal critique.
- UPDATED: Includes brief, current summaries of NIOSH investigative reports of firefighter fatalities.
- Lists the report number so students can easily access and read the entire report online.
- Informs students what occurred during those incidents to help ensure safer training and fireground operations.
- Preparation
- Management Tools
- Decision Making
- Company Operations
- Building Construction
- Building Collapse and Scene Safety
- Special Situations and Occupancies
- Health Care and High-Risk Populations
- Commercial and Industrial
- Technical Operations
- After the Incident
James P. Smith was appointed to the Philadelphia Fire Department on June 29, 1966. He was promoted to lieutenant on December 18, 1972; to captain on December 30, 1974; to battalion chief on August 3, 1981; and to deputy chief on June 27, 1987. Deputy chief is the highest fire department civil service position. Chief Smith reported to the deputy commissioner. He retired on July 7, 2007, and continues to lecture and write on firefighting.
Chief Smith has worked on both engine and ladder companies and in every section of the city. He has served as director of the Philadelphia Fire Academy. In this role, he was the departmental Safety Officer and responded on multiple alarm fires performing the Safety Officer’s function. Additional areas of responsibility included the research and planning unit. In his role as a field deputy chief, Chief Smith had responsibility for operations for one half of the city. Currently he is a member of the Atlantic County New Jersey All-Hazard Incident Management Team, serving as a Safety Officer.
Chief Smith has developed and taught many programs. He has been associated with the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland, since 1982. As an adjunct instructor since 1984, he has taught numerous operational courses. He is a graduate of the prestigious Executive Fire Officer’s Program. He also teaches courses for the Emergency Management Institute.
Chief Smith has authored the Fire Studies column in Firehouse magazine since 1987. He has served as a technical consultant for numerous textbooks, and has lectured throughout the United States on incident management, officer development, safety, church fires, building construction, building collapse, strategy and tactics, incident command systems, tank farm fires, and high-rise firefighting.
Chief Smith has also served as a subject matter expert and testified as a technical expert on firefighting strategy and tactics, operations in vacant buildings, dangers of vacant buildings, and the training needs of fire departments.
Chief Smith has also been involved in independent fire investigations involving fire fatalities and firefighter injuries, to determine whether the strategy and tactics that were employed at those fires met national standards.
Chief Smith can be contacted at JPSMITHPFD@aol.com.
Chief Smith has worked on both engine and ladder companies and in every section of the city. He has served as director of the Philadelphia Fire Academy. In this role, he was the departmental Safety Officer and responded on multiple alarm fires performing the Safety Officer’s function. Additional areas of responsibility included the research and planning unit. In his role as a field deputy chief, Chief Smith had responsibility for operations for one half of the city. Currently he is a member of the Atlantic County New Jersey All-Hazard Incident Management Team, serving as a Safety Officer.
Chief Smith has developed and taught many programs. He has been associated with the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland, since 1982. As an adjunct instructor since 1984, he has taught numerous operational courses. He is a graduate of the prestigious Executive Fire Officer’s Program. He also teaches courses for the Emergency Management Institute.
Chief Smith has authored the Fire Studies column in Firehouse magazine since 1987. He has served as a technical consultant for numerous textbooks, and has lectured throughout the United States on incident management, officer development, safety, church fires, building construction, building collapse, strategy and tactics, incident command systems, tank farm fires, and high-rise firefighting.
Chief Smith has also served as a subject matter expert and testified as a technical expert on firefighting strategy and tactics, operations in vacant buildings, dangers of vacant buildings, and the training needs of fire departments.
Chief Smith has also been involved in independent fire investigations involving fire fatalities and firefighter injuries, to determine whether the strategy and tactics that were employed at those fires met national standards.
Chief Smith can be contacted at JPSMITHPFD@aol.com.
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