Crucible of Fire : Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service /

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How the tragedies of the nineteenth-century's great municipal fires changed firefighting today.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hensler, Bruce, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2011]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fires > Social aspects.
Fires.
Fire prevention.
Fire fighters.
Fire extinction.
Fire departments.
City and town life.
Cities and towns.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Fire Science.
Incendies > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Incendies > Prevention > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Pompiers > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Services des incendies > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Incendies > Extinction > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Vie urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Villes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Incendies > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Incendies > Prevention > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Fires > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Fire prevention > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Fire fighters > United States > History > 19th century.
Fire departments > United States > History > 19th century.
Fire extinction > United States > History > 19th century.
City and town life > United States > History > 19th century.
Cities and towns > United States > History > 19th century.
Fires > United States > History > 19th century.
Fire prevention > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The context of the modern fire service
  • Origins of organized fire service
  • Firefighter culture
  • Contemporary firefighting
  • pt. 2. The fire problem defined
  • Great fire in Pittsburgh
  • Fire in the built environment
  • Fire and human behavior
  • Fire in rural areas and wildlands
  • pt. 3. The fire service under fire
  • Transformative forces to make firefighting safer
  • Cultural change needed to improve firefighter safety
  • Transitional forces create new fire service model
  • pt. 4. Learning to fight great urban fires
  • London and the development of a fire service
  • Portland and the Board of Fire Underwriters
  • Boston and the standardization of fire protection
  • pt. 5. Learning to control building fires
  • Fire protection in theory
  • Deadly fire in a fireproof hotel
  • Firefighting, building codes, and technology
  • pt. 6. Firefighters, engineers, and underwriters
  • New England mills and the factory mutual system
  • Fighting fires : from art to science
  • Volunteers to paid firemen
  • Legacy of the combustible city.

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