Author: J. Matthews
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Keywords: rescue, levels, rope, technical
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-03-04
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 1428320563
ISBN-13: 9781428320567
Practical, thorough, and current, this guide to rope rescue offers you detailed instructions for numerous rope rescue techniques, as well as industry insight on how to apply these techniques effectively on scene.. Based on the 2008 NFPA Standard 1006 and 2009 NFPA Standard 1670 Technical Rescue: Rope Rescue provides expansive coverage, including commonly used knots, practical rigging methods, incident and scene management, lowering systems, tensioned rope systems, and more. With a comprehensive yet simplified approach to a wide variety of techniques, the book breaks down some of the barriers t
Author: Mitchell Fall
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: rescue, careers, search, operations, units, fire, departments
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-10
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0823938336
ISBN-13: 9780823938339
Discusses the history of search and rescue work by fire departments, requirements of becoming a fire fighter, and the roles various fire departments played after the events of September 11, 2001.
Authors:Andrew Selters, Andy Selters,
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Keywords: rescue, crevasse, travel, routefinding, expedition, skills, techniques, reading, amp, glacier, glaciers, team
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-01-31
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0898866588
ISBN-13: 9780898866582
Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Topics covered include: how glaciers form and how crevasses develop; basic principles of glacier travel; routefinding; knots and harnesses; holding a fall; rescue techniques, including self-belay and what a victim should do; and glacier skiing and sled hauling. New sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented. With b&w photos and illustrations.
Author: Pat Ivey
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: rescue, emt
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2002-11-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0759244642
ISBN-13: 9780759244641
These are the trying true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians that often are the only thing standing between anyone of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive first hand experiences and an unflinching eye for drama and detail to bring us the unheard tales of heroism and courage of the EMT units. She takes us into a hidden world of children in need, women seeking shelter from the storm of abuse and the realities of industrial accidents. A simple car crash turns into a Herculean effort, an epic struggle against the clock and against the odds. Tragic misfortunes that usua
Author: Jean Phillips
Publisher: Hannibal Books
Keywords: rescue
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0929292898
ISBN-13: 9780929292892
Tested and tried with more than any Christian could be expected to endure, these servants refused to allow Satan to send them packing back to America. American missionaries Jean Phillips and her husband, Gene, lived through some of the most harrowing moments in African history of the last half century--through unthinkable hardships that would have caused most people to abandon their cause. From the Rhodesian civil war to bush-country living to an abduction that almost took their lives, the Phillipses learned the dependability of God’s rescue again and again. When all else seemed
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: rescue
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0554308916
ISBN-13: 9780554308913
The shallow sea that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands big and little which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centuries the scene of adventurous undertakings.
Author: Darrel D. Whitcomb
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: bat, rescue
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1998-04
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1557509468
ISBN-13: 9781557509468
