Surface ice rescue
This book provides practical, up-to-date information on training, team management, equipment, and techniques for ice rescue teams.
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Surface ice rescue / Walt "Butch" Hendrick, Andrea Zaferes.
Summary
This book provides practical, up-to-date information on training, team management, equipment, and techniques for ice rescue teams.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Fire Engineering
- Place of Publication:Saddle Brook, NJ
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 214 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0912212853, 9780912212852
- oclc:ocm40805450
- LC Classification:RC88.5
- Dewey Decimal:616.9/89
Table of Contents
No ice is safe ice -- Preplanning the surface ice rescue response -- The three levels of training -- Who responds to ice rescue incidents? -- Managing an operation -- Surface ice rescue equipment -- The rescue : awareness-level duties and responses -- The rescue : operational-level duties and responses -- The rescue : technician-level duties and responses -- Communication and line tending -- Special ice rescue situations -- Ice formation and types -- Cold stress and hypothermia -- The four processes of heat loss -- Heat and fluid loss -- How repeated exposure to cold affects us -- Cold stress, immersion, and fluid loss -- Chilblains, frostnip, frostbite, and freezing -- Drowning.
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