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PADM 3610: Personnel Management for the Fire & Emergency Services

Edwards, Steven, Fire Service Personnel Management, 2nd edition,
ISBN #: 9780131177666.


PADM 3611: Disaster Planning & Control

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Disaster Planning & Control, William M. Kramer (Author), 3rd edition (May 11, 2009).  Publisher:  Fire Engineering Books & Videos. 


PADM 3612: Fire Prevention, Organization and Management

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Management in the Fire Service, Carter and Rausch (Authors), 3rd edition (2007), Quincy, MA:  National Fire Protection Association.
PADM 3613: Fire & Emergency Services Administration

Chief Fire Officers’ Desk Reference; International Association of Fire Chiefs, Edited by John M. Buckman, III, 2006.  Publisher:  Jones and Bartlett, ISBN #: 9780763729356.

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Additional readings from online resources and articles.
PADM 3614: Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

The Fire Officers Legal Handbook, J. Curtis Varone (Author), 2008, Publisher:  Delmar Cengage Learning, ISBN #: 9781418041137.

Optional reading:  Legal Aspects of the Fire Service, Lawrence J. Hogan (Author), 3rd Edition, 1995, Amlex, Inc., ISBN #: 0965917444.

Additional readings from online resources and articles.
PADM 3615: Community Risk Reduction

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Bruhn, John G., The Sociology of Community Connections, 2005, Publisher:  Springer, ISBN #: 0306486164.

Additional readings from online resources and articles.
TECH 3940: Analytic Approaches to Public Fire Protection

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Fire Data Analysis Handbook, FEMA/USFA, U.S. Government Printing Office, 5th ed., 2000; the full text is online for students and they do not need to purchase the book.  Students can access the full text at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfirs/tools/.  At that link, a PDF version is available for reference.  Please note:  Hard copies of this text may vary in page numbers from the page numbers listed in the reading assignments. To view both sets of page numbers, check on the Module At a Glance pages in each module.  Both sets of page numbers will be indicated by "hc" for hard copy, and "dc" for downloadable copy.

Additional readings from online resources and articles.
TECH 3942: Fire Related Behavior

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Human Behavior in Fire, Engineering Guide.  Publisher:  Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2003.
TECH 3944: Fire Protection Structures and Systems

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.
TECH 3945: Fire Investigation & Analysis

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

NFPA 921:  Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations, 2008 Edition, Item #92104.

User's Manual for NFPA 921:  Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations, 2004 Edition, Item #921GD05.

interFire VR CD-Rom, 1999, Stonehouse Media Incorporated.

Additional readings from online resources and articles.
TECH 3946: Fire Dynamics

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Additional readings from online resources and articles.
TECH 3947: Applications of Fire Research

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Practical Research:  Planning & Design, Paul Leedy & Jeanne E. Ormrod, (Authors), 8th Edition, (2005).  Publisher:  Prentice Hall, ISBN #: 0131108956.
TECH 3948: Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials

Fire Protection Handbook (National Fire Protection Association), Volumes I and II, Arthur E. Cote (Editor), 20th edition.  Publisher:  National Fire Protection Association, ISBN #: 08776547432.

Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, Hildebrand, Michael; Noll, Gregory; Yvorra, James, (Authors), 3rd Edition.  Publisher:  Red Hat Publishing Company, Inc., Distributed by Fire Protection Publications, ISBN #: 1932235043.

Additional readings from online resources and articles.
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