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Title: Firefighting Strategy and Tactics by Harry R. Carter, Lynne Murnane ISBN: 0-87939-160-X Publisher: Fire Protection Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $33.34

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Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Do some research before buying this book
Comment: Please, if you've never read Carter's material look for some of his articles before you spend money on this. His tactics and strategies are near ubsurd. Its obvious anyone who suggests pulling 2 seperate 1 3/4 lines on a car fire has no real world experience. That is just a taste of what he believes. Do yourself a favor and see for yourself before you spend money on this.

Rating: 1
Summary: I rated this a One Star, because ZERO Stars isn't an option.
Comment: This book is a waste of paper, ink, money, and time.

Harry Carter's Fire Fighting Strategy and Tactics, is another extension of Harry's style: incoherent, irrelevant, and unreadable.

For instance, Harry states on page 3, that "As an Incident Commander . . . You will need to know about each [of the following] if you are to become knowledgeable in the use of fire fighting strategy and tactics . . ." The list includes the following: sturdier ground ladders, improved hydrant security devices and wrenches, better SCBA seat-mounted brackets (that was my personal favorite), and stronger ground ladders. (WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT, HARRY!!)

For Harry, this book is yet another attempt to feign his way into the circle of the true leaders in today's fire service. In it's truest form, it is a pulpit from which Harry seeks to convince us that he really does have something both original and provocative to say. Unfortunately for Harry, it is just a rerun of what little we learned at Harry's train-wreck talk at FDIC 2000.

His sentences are verbose and muddy, and he lacks a direction in his style, content, and in the arrangement of his outdated ideas.

Please don't waste time reading such junk...

Give up, Harry.

PLEASE?!!

Rating: 5
Summary: A complete and highly useful text
Comment: This is a must read for firefighters and support personnel. It will give you the basics and the overall picture of how to fight fires. Firefighting is no game and this book brings home the seriousness of the profession.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "The Firefighter's Guide to Managing Stress" [email protected]