EMS & Fire Science (Brady)

This text is appropriate for freshman/sophomore level introductory hazardous materials courses taught in fire science departments as well as first responder training for hazardous materials.

This text, now in its third successful edition, provides the best available introduction to asic fire behavior in flammable hazardous materials. Examining basic chemical structures and reactions in a context relevant to firefighting, this text presents a comprehensive study of the properties of flammable liquids, flammable gases, flammable solids, and plastics. With strong pedagogy and thoroughly current, up-to-date discussions throughout, this text is once again the clear choice in its field.

• offers a basic introduction to chemical structures and reactions in familiar terms, enhancing student understanding of this area in a context relative to the firefighter.

• bridges the gap between chemicals, their properties, and their use with substances in the field thus helping students predict possible reactions by understanding chemical structure.

• explores the relationship of chemical substances to each other giving students insight into the affects of mixing compounds in the field.

• provides a rewritten chapter on chemical structures and reactions that correlates better to theories contained in the remainder of the text.

• includes updated references to give the instructor and student better access to the most current additional information available on the material.

• offers fully updated case studies, giving the text added relevancy to today's problems.

Hazardous Materials (Fire Science (Brady))

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