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Author : Eyre Massey Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Fire extinction
ISBN : CHI:49975406
Author : F. M. Holmes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547092445
Published in 1899, this work tells the history of the fire extinction from its origin to its situation during the late 1800s. The writer explained the various methods that people used during different periods. Contents include: The Horsed Fire Escape Appears. An Exciting Scene The Beginning of the Story. Hero's "Siphon." How the Ancients Strove to Extinguish Fires In Mediæval Days. An Epoch-making Fire The Pearl-button Maker's Contrivance. The Modern Fire-engine Extinguishment by Company. The Beginnings of Fire Insurance The Story of James Braidwood The Thames on Fire. The Death of Braidwood A Perilous Situation. Captain Shaw. Improvements of the Metropolitan Board and of the London County Council A Visit to Headquarters How Recruits Are Trained Some Stories of the Brigade Fire-escapes and Fire-floats Chemical Fire-engines. Fire-proofing, or Muslin That Will Not Flame The Work of the London Salvage Corps. The Great Cripplegate Fire Across the Water
Author : Eyre Massey Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:24167187
Author : Charles Frederic T. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Fire engines
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU50535480
Author : William Orme McRobie
Publisher : s.n.], 1881 (Montreal : "Witness" Print. House)
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Fire departments
ISBN : NYPL:33433070228105
Author : Steve Bernocco
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593704940
The core principles of structural firefighting are fire behavior, building construction, strategy, tactics, safety and training. Each core principle is examined with relevant on-the-job stories to bring lessons home. Fire departments must constantly train their firefighters and officers in these core principles if they want them to be safe and effective at structure fires. Training is the foundation of all the other core principles, and must be realistic, scenario-based, and hands-on. Never stop learning during your time as a structural firefighter. If you come to a point where you mistakenly believe that you know everything there is to know about fires in and around buildings–watch out–because you have just fallen into the complacency trap. FEATURES --Gain a deeper understanding of how firefighters should approach fires in buildings, with an emphasis on safety and effectiveness --See the latest research from UL and NIST on fire behavior and flow paths, with a discussion of best-practices and up-to-date tactical advice. --An essential, easy-to-read fundamental resource on how to safely and effectively fight fires in buildings of any size or type. “Fire Under Control is a riveting new book that allows you to learn while also seeing how street experiences coincide with printed tactical and scientific fire service information. I always have said that eyes, ears, and experience will equal your education in the fire service and Capt. Steve Bernocco has managed to bring it to light.” -- Lt. Mike Ciampo, Fire Department of New York
Author : James Braidwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Fire extinction
ISBN : OXFORD:600081792
Author : Roger Hansford
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750957373
In one of the most at-risk areas of the country, fire-fighting and preparedness are no laughing matter. Home to the UK’s largest refinery, Fawley is vulnerable to petrochemical fires making the fire service vital to the town’s infrastructure. Hansford documents the provision and response of the local fire brigades through the century, not least with the threat of terrorism in the modern age. After having been established after several major incidents, Fawley’s fire station was stood down from full- to part-time crewing and for the first time the story of this station and of Waterside’s private fire brigades is told. From loading ships with explosives for war to the development of the fire engine and fire fighting through the century, this book will fascinate firefighters, historians and locals alike.
Author : Frederic Morell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1332012825
Excerpt from Firemen and Their Exploits: With Some Account of the Rise and Development of Fire-Brigades, of Various Appliances for Saving Life at Fires and Extinguishing the Flames The present volume, though complete in itself, forms one of a series seeking to describe in a popular and non-technical manner the Triumphs of Engineers. The same style has, therefore, been followed which was adopted in the preceding volumes. The profession of Engineering has exercised great influence on the work of Fire Extinguishment, as on some other things; and the subject is, therefore, not inappropriate to the series of books of which the volume forms part. The story of the Fire-Engine begins in Egypt about a hundred and fifty years before Christ. Hero of Alexandria describes a contrivance called the "siphon used in conflagrations," and some persons are of opinion that he was not unacquainted with the use of the air-chest. But it was not until nearly two thousand years later - that is, about the close of the seventeenth century - that the air-chamber and the hose seem to have been brought into anything like general use, -if, indeed, the use can be called general even then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Kenlon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Fire extinction
ISBN : UOM:39015020609726
Author : Allan Grice
Publisher : Random House
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780574332
Working as a fireman in London’s East End during the early 1970s was no easy ride. In the years before workplace health-and-safety legislation had started to exert its grip, Allan Grice had to cut his fire-and-rescue teeth without the advantages of a breathing apparatus for each member of his crew. Back then, the time-tested strategy was to ‘get in’ – to crawl below the intense heat and ‘eat’ the thick smoke – in order to locate a missing child or to halt a rapidly spreading inferno. In Call the Fire Brigade!, Grice recounts his most memorable experiences as a front-line member of the London Fire Brigade working the city’s East End, with its myriad commercial premises, brooding Thames-side warehouses, seedy tenements and colourful cosmopolitan community, ranging from prosperous manufacturers to down-and-out winos with their body-warming bonfires in derelict houses. Fires in factories, tenements and warehouses, and non-fire emergencies such as the Moorgate Tube disaster of 1975, are graphically described, while the elation of rescue, the sadness of being too late to save lives and the warm camaraderie of fire crews during some of the capital’s busiest peacetime years are vividly depicted.
Author : Bruce Hensler
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781597976848
Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created sweeping changes in the methods of constructing buildings, planning city streets, engineering water distribution systems, underwriting fire insurance, and firefighting itself. Crucible of Fire describes how the practical knowledge gained from fighting nineteenth-century fires gave form and function to modern fire protection efforts. Changes in materials and building design resulted directly from tragedies such as fires in supposedly fireproof hotels. Thousands of buildings burned, millions of dollars were lost, the fire insurance industry faltered, and the nature of volunteerism changed radically before municipal authorities took the necessary actions. The great fires formed a crucible of learning for firefighters, engineers, architects, underwriters, and citizens. Veteran firefighter Bruce Hensler shows how the modern American fire service today is a direct result of the lessons of history and a rethinking of the efficacy of volunteerism in fighting fires. Crucible of Fire is an eye-opening look at today's fire service and a thorough examination of what firefighters, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens can do to protect their homes and communities from the mistakes of the past.
Author : Craig H. Shelley,Anthony R. Cole,Timothy E. Markley
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593700812
Written to specifically prepare the municipal firefighter for responses to a wide range of industrial fires, this book is ideal for municipal firefighters at any stage of their career, as well as for personnel at industrial facilities who operate or coordinate response with municipal fire departments.
Author : Charles Frederick T. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Fire engines
ISBN : OXFORD:591079360
Author : Aylmer Firebrace CBE KPM
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399015004
The former Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade offers his account of life in fire services in London and around Britain during World War II. War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable, and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler’s bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade, was seconded to the Home Office to plan for the capital’s fire defence. Before joining the Fire Brigade, Aylmer Firebrace had been a Royal Navy officer who had fought in the Battle of Jutland during the First World War. It was following the Armistice that, in 1919, he became principal officer in the London Fire Brigade. He was promoted to deputy chief and finally chief officer in June 1938. That war struck London soon enough, but it was on 7 September 1940, that Firebrace’s preparations were truly tested with the start of the Blitz. For the next fifty-seven days and nights London was subjected to the longest continuous bombing campaign in history. Then, as the Luftwaffe ranged wider and further across Britain’s towns and cities, Firebrace was tasked with toured the nation to see the effects of the bombing, at which point he saw the need for a national response. The result was the creation of the National Fire Service. Formed in August 1941, by the amalgamation of some 1,600 separate brigades, this remarkable organisation had, at its peak, a strength of 370,000 men and women. It was led for its entire existence by Aylmer Firebrace. As the war continued, Firebrace became Chief of the Fire Staff and Inspector-in-Chief of the Fires Services, being the first and, to date, only person to head all the fire-fighting services in Britain. This body had to deal with the expansion of the Blitz as well as the so-called “Baedeker” raids, the “tip-and-run” attacks, Baby Blitz and V1 and V2 offensives of the later years of the war. In his fascinating account, written immediately the war, Firebrace reflects on the functioning of the fire service at its most testing time. This book is an essential addition to the understanding of the Blitz and how London and the rest of the country survived its darkest hour.