Fire Fighting Essentials - Professional Firefighter Gear & Equipment for Emergency Response & Safety Training

I purchased this manual in order to understand structure fires, how they usually start and behave. I wanted to know what the dangers are, and how the fires affect differently built structures. Basically I wanted to know what can be done by a homeowner to prevent fires and what common sense (i.e. safe) steps can be taken by someone living in a rural forested area, with no nearby fire department, that has a structure fire. Since I wasn't looking to become a fire fighter, but rather to understand (and prevent) structure fires, it turned out that this book wasn't quite as useful to me as manuals on wildland firefighting, understandably. But it did provide some useful info, particularly on how dangerous and deceptive structure fire behavior can be, and how toxic the fumes and gases in a structure fire are (eg. it's the CO in the air that can get you, even if you think you're safe and away from flames). And by buying the manual used for less than $5 after shipping, it was a worthwhile purchase.