Hoarder Homes:Piles of Hazards for Firefighters - Softcover

Pennington, Ryan E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 151537582X ISBN 13: 9781515375821

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

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. Inside this book Ryan covers: Introduction to Cumpulsive Hoarding Disorder Dangers faced by firefighters Identifying and Pre-Planing hoarding Introduced to a new name for hoarding Offensive Fire attack Defensive attack Searching in Hoarding conditions Overhauling

About this title

About the Author:

Ryan Pennington is a Firefighter/Paramedic for the Charleston Fire Department in Charleston West Virginia. He is currently assigned to Station 6 that houses Quint 456/medic 436. He has over 20 years of combined Fire, Rescue, and EMS experience. Ryan started with a local volunteer department and continued through EMS to spend five years as a Critical Care Paramedic. Ryan transferred to the career fire service in 2003 and has worked for the City of Charleston since 2007. Ryan is the Leading Authority in Heavy Content Response. (Also Known as Hoarder Response). He is a highly sought out instructor, speaker, author, blogger and podcast host. Ryan has lectured and trained thousands of firefighters and fire departments from across the United States and internationally both at their departments and at large conferences like Firehouse Expo,FDIC, Firehouse World, and FDIC Atlantic (Canada).   He has been published in FireRescue Magazine, Fire Engineering, Firefighting in Canada Magazine,Firehouse, among others and has been interviewed on the top firefighter training podcasts and radio shows in the country. He is the founder of ChamberofHoarders.com which is the leading Heavy Content Response Online Training Academy for fire departments worldwide.  This website has the best heavy content online training with Heavy Content Firefighting Academy, heavy content fire news, case studies, interviews, podcasts, and more fully dedicated to training firefighters on the risks and best practices of heavy content fires. Ryan blogs and podcasts about the views of a street level firefighters at JumpseatTraining.com. To Learn more about Heavy Content Firefighting and options for training your fire department, go to ChamberofHoarders.com or Contact Ryan at jumpseatviews@icloud.com and on twitter at @jumpseatviews

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 151537582X
• ISBN 13: 9781515375821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260