Strategic and tactical considerations on the

For Strategy and Tactics courses. Fireground provides a real-life approach developed from hands-on experience not third party description. The author uses over 35 years of experience as a Deputy Chief with the Philadelphia Fire Department in handling major incidents, coupled with many years of teaching, to explain situations and problems that can confront an emergency responder. This text utilizes systems to identify problems at an incident scene and to find solutions to those problems through strategic decision-making and development of an incident management system. It provides current data, including rapid intervention teams, terrorism, cue-based decision-making and infrared technology.