Fireground Strategies

Chief Anthony Avillo’s bestselling Fireground Strategies is an invaluable resource for the education and development of outstanding fire officers, and this fourth edition builds upon the art of strategic firefighting by keeping on top of its ever-evolving information ecosystem. Through case studies and illustrative examples, Avillo covers how to identify a strategy, develop an action plan, and implement tactics to meet the objectives of the course of action on a fireground. Fireground Strategies is a required text in senior-level undergraduate firefighting strategies courses and is recommended reading for promotional exams across the United States.

Updates and Highlights for the Fourth Edition:

Expanded scene arrival protocols to better control an escalating fireground

The concept of the RIT assist team (RAT)

The concept of the RIT, after softening the structure, as an accountability team

Mutual aid considerations for an escalating incident

An analysis of the differences between exterior and interior size-up

Expanded concepts on heat transfer and the modern fire environment

Expanded and updated building construction chapter, including combustible cladding, mass timber, pedestal construction, engineered wood frame, OSB, and T-stud framing

Use of exterior and interior control, the key indicators, and examples of their use

Exterior strategic opportunity cues and options

Updated cues for strategic modification A guide to strategic transition from offensive to defensive operations

Recognizing and managing the structural carcass

Expanded private dwelling chapter to include attic and knee wall dangers and strategies, the recognition and dangers when confronted with dead man rooms, as well as porch fires, triple decker fires, and elevated structure challenges

Updated engineered multiple dwelling sections

Strategic considerations and the need to correctly implement and coordinate “The Big 6” tactical operations in high-rise firefighting

Strategic considerations involving combustible roof fires in noncombustible structures such as strip malls

Utilization of the “outside the aisle” strategy when fighting fires in rack storage

Large footprint commercial structures and the requirement of an interior area of organization to support the area of operation

New sections containing command considerations of active shooter, civil unrest, lithium-ion incidents, and highway operations

More than 150 new photographs and captions highlighting critical subject matter