Sep 15, 2015
The latest Book from Ryan Pennington, Hoarder Homes: Pile of Hazards for Firefighters is a culmination of three years of research into fires that occur inside homes filled with large amounts of belongings. Compulsive Hoarding Disorder is a psychological mental condition that affects between 2-5% of adults. With the number of afflicted growing so is the chances of firefighters having to deal with this issue.
The book covers:
· Introduction to Compulsive Hoarding Disorder
· Dangers faced by firefighters
· Identifying and Pre-Planning hoarding
· Introduced to a new name for hoarding
· Offensive Fire attack
· Defensive attack
· Searching in Hoarding conditions
· Overhauling
· Special additional chapter covers EMS response in Hoarding Conditions.
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Midwest
Fire
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Intro music
Safety Dance (1982)
Men Without Hats
GMC - Virgin Records
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