Book Information
Assessment Center Management and
Supervision Book 2nd Edition
Chapter 1 Understanding the Process
Chapter 2 Supervision Responsibilities
Chapter 3 Management
Chapter 4 Assessment exercises
Fire Officer Oral Assessment
Study Guides
The team at Promotional Prep have taken their study guides and formatted them into a new book! This is your first step toward your PERFECT SCORE!
Chapter 1 – Foundation Templates
Chapter 2 – Task Based Templates
Chapter 3 – Occupancy Based Templates
Chapter 4 – Evolving – Challenging
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Deputy Chief Frank Viscuso, Kearny NJ
Deputy Chief Michael Terpak, Jersey City
This important new book is designed to serve many purposes in the fire service, ranging from being a starting point and refresher guide for firefighters seeking promotions at any level, to being a field operational guide for on-scene Incident Commanders and Company Officers. It offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step action plan for firefighters working in Acting Capacities, and can be used when developing SOP’s, and when organizing and planning training evolutions. It’s definitely a book every firefighter, officer, and aspiring officer will want to own!
Approx. 290 Pages/Hardcover/8.5×11
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Assessment Center
Strategy and Tactics
From Fire Engineering Books and Videos
Assessment Center Strategies and Tactics
By Michael A.Terpak
Deputy Chief
City of Jersey City Fire Department
Read Assessment Center Strategies and Tactics and broaden your understanding of the true test of knowledge, skills and abilities that awaits you as you climb the ladder of success.Chapter 1 — Understanding the process
- Performance Dimensions
- How Assessors will score you
- Test-taking tips
- What to avoid
Chapter 2 — Strategy and tactics assessment
- Company Officer Tactics
- Engine and Ladder Company
- Chief Officer Strategies
- A to Z approach
Chapter 3 — Structure fires
- Test-taking cues for answering exercises involving structure fires
Chapter 4— Unusual and Everyday type incidents Test-taking cues for answering exercises involving:
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- Structural Collapse
- Hazardous Material incidents
- Gas leaks & Oil burner incidents
Chapter 5 — Strategy and Tactic exercises
- 10 — Oral Assessment exercises with comprehensive answer keys!
Firefighters who want to advance must be skilled not only on the fireground, but in the assessment center as well. In Assessment Center Strategies and Tactics, Battalion Chief Michael A. Terpak provides a comprehensive approach to the assessment process. He includes step-by-step preparation, scoring strategies, and test-taking tips as well as study cues for exercises that include structure fires, hazardous material incidents, structural collapse, and beyond.”Chief Terpak takes the reader through a thorough process that identifies what to expect from the assessment center process and how to prepare for it. The reader will find that this book will identify the concept of an assessment center and the various types of exercises that make up an assessment center process.”
— Paul H. Stein
Fire Chief (Retired)
Lakeside and Santa Monica California Fire Departments”Chief Terpak’s insight and experience will help you to prepare for the testing process as well as show you ways to maximize your score and increase the chance of promotion. While there are o guarantees, the advice found in these pages, along with your vigilant study of the job, will start you on the path to promotional success.”
— Captain Michael West
South Metro Colorado Fire and Rescue
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Fireground Size-Up
From Fire Engineering Books and Videos
By Michael A.Terpak
Deputy Chief (Ret.)
City of Jersey City Fire Department
Learn how fireground size-up can make your operations efficient, effective, and safe.
Fire officers have many decisions to make when they approach a scene—decisions that could mean the difference between life and death. Pre-incident information combined with your on-scene size-up give the fire officer the advantage of knowing what to expect when arriving and operating at a fire scene. In this definitive guide to fireground size-up, author Michael A. Terpak gives fire fighters an in-depth and expanded review of 15 size-up points to help them make decisions that are efficient, effective, and safe.
In each different type of building referenced, Terpak covers the following points:
- Construction concerns
- Occupancy
- Apparatus and staffing
- Life hazard
- Terrain
- Water supply
- Auxiliary appliances and aides
- Street conditions
- Weather
- Exposures
- Area
- Location and extent of fire
- Time
- Height
- Special considerations
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