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Fire behaviour, the pump and its lockers, hydrants and open water, hose lays, ladders and knots, BA and search, road crash first steps and radio procedure. Each topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 63 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 59 topics.
Drill night. The officer says "grab the standpipe" and you're standing beside the pump with every locker shut. Six doors, and you've no idea which one to open.
You read it on Sunday. But the manual gives you the stowage in paragraphs, item after item, with nothing to picture. A list of gear doesn't tell you where your hand goes.
In the book, the pump appliance is one big drawing with the lockers opened up: hose, branches, standpipe, ladders, BA and rescue gear, each shown where it usually sits. You see the truck the way you'll see it at the station, then check it against your own appliance.
The same goes for the fire triangle, the hydrant markers, rolling and running out hose, the parts of a ladder and your BA set: each one has its own page.
Next drill night you walk straight to the right locker and you know why the gear lives there. No going back to the manual to check.
You and the brigade, fire behaviour, the appliance and its gear, water supply, hose lays, ladders and knots, BA and search, road crash and hazmat first steps, and radio with a drill night review: 63 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's night on a state highway, the pump pulls up at a crash and the officer tells you to set out the cones. You've got seconds to know where they go.
In the book you open the road crash page and it's drawn on one scene: the pump in fend-off, the cones, the outer and inner circles.
Same with the hydrant markers, the flashover warning signs, the standard attack lay, the 1-in-4 ladder angle and your BA pre-use checks: each one on its own page.
Volunteer Firefighter Illustrated is 9 parts and 59 topics, all drawn, and it finishes with the questions officers ask most and a before-drill checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
How a volunteer brigade fits into FENZ, your training pathway, the first five minutes from pager to appliance, structural PPE, crew roles and dynamic risk assessment.
The fire triangle and tetrahedron, heat transfer, the four stages of a compartment fire, flashover and backdraught signs, reading smoke, classes of fire and door entry.
The pump appliance with its lockers opened up, the pump panel in plain words, hose types and sizes, couplings, branches and nozzles, and the small gear you'll be asked to grab.
Finding a hydrant in NZ, setting up the standpipe, shutting down without water hammer, drafting from open water, rural tanks and water points, and relaying between appliances.
Rolling, carrying and running out hose, hose-reel first attack, the standard attack lay, dividing breechings, kinks and stairs, holding a branch and making up after the job.
Parts of a ladder, carrying and raising as a crew, the 1-in-4 rule, footing and climbing, overhead hazards, the knots you'll use and hoisting gear.
Your BA set part by part, pre-use checks in order, entry control and your tally, working time and turn-around pressure, search patterns, moving a casualty and BA emergencies.
Road crash arrival and scene safety, stabilising a vehicle, airbags, batteries and EVs, Hazchem placards, vegetation and scrub fires, and first aid priorities while you wait.
The phonetic alphabet, how a radio message is built, the fireground on one page, the questions officers ask most and a before-drill checklist.
At the end of the book: The questions officers ask most, the fireground on one page and a before-drill checklist.
Exam-style questions with worked answers on every chapter, so you find the gaps at home and not in front of the crew.
The most common recruit mistakes drawn side by side with the right way, from kinked hose lays to ladder footing, for a quick review before drill night.
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The pump, the gear and the drills laid out one page at a time, so drill nights stop feeling like a foreign language.
Every topic drawn and in order, plus practice questions with worked answers, so you find the gaps at home and not in front of the crew.
A quick refresher before drill night, and one drawing per page to show a recruit how a hose lay or a ladder pitch works.
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Yes, it starts from the basics. It's written in NZ English with metric units, and it also works as a refresher if you've been on the pager for a couple of years.
From current publicly available NZ sources: FENZ public guidance, the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017, SNZ PAS 4509:2008 and WorkSafe NZ guidance. Every figure is marked so you can check it against the current official version and your brigade's procedures.
No. It's an independent study book, not published, approved or endorsed by Fire and Emergency New Zealand or any other body.
No. It helps you study and review between drill nights. Station instruction, your officers and your brigade's procedures always come first.
No. They're written for this book to help you check what you know. They aren't official assessment questions.
The book and the 2 bonus books arrive as PDFs by email, at the address you enter when you pay.
No. It's a one-off payment.
Yes. The PDF is made to print, so you can print it at home or at a print shop and take it to the station.
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No more rereading with nothing sticking.
The pump lockers: you see them drawn and that's it.
You turn up to drill night knowing where everything is.
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