Bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Do you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to evaluate behavior, performance, and readiness? Read Mastering the Fire Service Assessment Center to identify what you need to learn and understand how to learn it. There is no way you can read and reflect on the wisdom in these pages and not become a better person and a better firefighter. Why Read This Book? The American fire service is facing a new normal fueled by mass exodus, influx of new generations of firefighters, a lack of hands-on leadership training, sweeping changes in mission, decimated budgets, and the genetics of task-oriented, reactive forefathers. The greatest and perhaps only area that we can affect directly is hands-on, inspiring, realistic, and useful training for our aspiring and incumbent leaders. This book will help you regardless of the fire officer rank you seek. It will help you know where you need to improve, how to develop a specific personal plan to become an excellent officer, and how to do well with whatever assessment center exercises throw at you. NEW MATERIAL in this second edition: --Enjoy reading “Wisdom from the Masters” from 18 fire service luminaries. They provide invaluable insights and challenges you will face as you prepare to promote, whether for the first time as a company officer or up the chain as a chief officer. --Learn lessons from thousands of students from the past 12 years whose feedback will benefit you in this second edition. --Benefit from the many new elements in this book, including relevant articles, additional exercises, and content regarding the dimensions of leadership, management, and emergency operations. The complexities of being a fire officer in the 21st century require an undercurrent of humility while continually pursuing mastery of leading in the modern fire service. Learn how to lead the modern-day firefighter in a modern world, with modern technology, modern fire behavior, and modern sociopolitical and economic challenges. Many firefighters ask themselves if they really want to do this job, but nothing is as professionally rewarding and challenging as leading others in battle to save lives! “This book will give you the greatest probability of success in your assessment center process.” —Bobby Halton, editor-in-chief, Fire Engineering magazine

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), and the International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) are pleased to bring you Foundations of Instructional Delivery: Fire and Emergency Services Instructor I, Third Edition. With a full library of technological resources to engage candidates and assist instructors, Foundations of Instructional Delivery takes training off the printed page. This text meets and exceeds all of the job performance requirements (JPRs) for Fire and Emergency Services Instructor I of the 2019 Edition of NFPA 1041, Standard for Fire and Emergency Services Instructor Professional Qualifications.Innovative features include:Rapid access of content through clear and concise Knowledge and Skills Objectives with page number references and NFPA 1041 correlationsPromotion of critical thinking and classroom discussion through the “Training Bulletin” and “Incident Report” features found in each chapter“Company-Level Instructor Tips” offering classroom communication techniques, instructor evaluation methods, and helpful notes on curriculum deliveryRealistic instructor scenarios with questions designed to provoke critical thinking in the learning environmentNew to the Third Edition:In-depth discussion of student-centered learningLearner-centered teaching methods and strategiesEvidence-based techniques for improving learningExpanded explanation of learning science

This second edition of Fire Service Pump Operator has been thoroughly updated to serve as a complete training solution that addresses pump operation, safe driving techniques, tiller and aerial apparatus operation, and water supply considerations. From basic apparatus maintenance to fire pump theory and advanced hydraulic calculations, this single manual covers everything a fire service driver/operator needs to know. Fire Service Pump Operator: Pump, Aerial, Tiller, and Mobile Water Supply, Second Edition meets and exceeds the job performance requirements of Chapters 4, 5, and 10 of NFPA 1002, Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications, 2014 Edition. It also addresses all of the course outcomes from the National Fire Academy’s Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) Associates (Core) Fire Protection Hydraulics and Water Supply course.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), and International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) are pleased to bring you Fire Service Instructor: Principles and Practice, a new text developed to meet and exceed the 2007 Edition of NFPA 1041, Standard for Instructor Professional Qualifications. This text, which utilizes a case-based approach to learning in order to encourage critical thinking, is the core of an integrated teaching and learning system for Fire Instructor I and II level courses. Fire Service Instructor: Principles and Practice is not only designed to help students meet the requirements to become a fire instructor, but also to empower them to become great educators within the fire and emergency services. Listen to a Podcast with Fire Service Instructor: Principles and Practice editor Forest Reeder to learn more about this training program! Forest discusses the concise nature of the text, its real world focus on how training is delivered in today's classrooms and training grounds, and the technology resources available to support the text. To listen now, visit: http://d2jw81rkebrcvk.cloudfront.net/assets.multimedia/audio/Fire_Service_Instructor.mp3