Aircraft Accidents: A Practical Guide for Responders

Aircraft Accidents: A Practical Guide for Responders: A Practical Guide for Responders (Paperback) by James Anderson (Author), Robert Gill (Author)

This straightforward guidebook prepares emergency responders for the successful response & management of aircraft accidents. Readers will learn about airplane anatomy in simplified terms, enabling them to communicate & work effectively with the various agencies involved in a fire, crash, and post-fire environment. Topics include establishing a National Defense Area at military plane crashes, controlling large fuel fires, and creating safe landing zones for helicopter operations, with valuable refresher information on such safety issues as blood borne pathogens. Coverage effectively reveals how the various emergency services form into unified command structure as a single team to manage an aircraft accident.

About the Author Jim Anderson is with the University of Utah. Robert Gill is fire chief of the Central Calvares Fire Protection District in CA. He has over 25 years of experience in Air Force fire protection and was California Firefighter of the Year in 2001.

Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Cengage Delmar Learning; 1 edition (November 4, 2007)

ISBN-10: 1401879101 ISBN-13: 978-1401879105