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‎(SAPEURS POMPIERS) The fireman's aid. A complete treatise on all subjects pertaining to fire-fighting, tools, appliances, etc. ‎

‎Boston - Lynn - Salem Perry and Elliott cOmpany 1922, in-8, hardback, dustjacket (used) , 307p. Portrait de l'auteur en frontispice. Sujets majeurs traités dans l'ouvrage : Tactiques de lutte contre les incendies : Méthodes d'extinction, stratégies d'attaque et gestion des interventions selon le type de bâtiment. • Équipements et outils : Utilisation et entretien des lances, des échelles, des systèmes de raccordement et des premiers camions de pompiers motorisés. Hydraulique et approvisionnement en eau : Principes fondamentaux de la pression de l'eau, du calcul du débit et de la configuration des lignes de tuyaux. Sauvetage et secourisme : Techniques d'évacuation des victimes, maniement du matériel de sauvetage et premiers soins d'urgence en cas d'asphyxie ou de brûlure. Prévention et protection contre les incendies : Directives pour inspecter les risques potentiels et comprendre le comportement du feu. ‎

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‎INDEX : A Auxiliary fire-extinguishing apparatus - Ammonia fires - Acid fires - Awning fires - Automobile fires - Alarm codes -Appliances, care of - Aerial ladders, use of - Ammunition : Manufacture - Storage, keeping or sale - General provisions. B Burst hose - Brush fires - Building inspection, valuable points on - Breaking window glass - Breaking window frames . C Cellar pipes - Cellar fires -Causes of fires - Captain's examination - Chimney fires - Chemical fires - Cement fires - Coal-yard fires - Celluloid inspection - Cutting iron bars, gratings and railings - Cutting holes through roofs, floors and walls - Construction of buildings - Chemical engines, handling of - D Different connections - Different nozzles - Defective flues .- Dock fires - Dangers to be avoided - Dry-cleaning inspecting - Dry-dyeing, inspecting - Deputy Chief, examination - Details to public places of amusement - District Chief, examination - Draeger oxygen apparatus - Definitions : Acetate cellulose - Automatic closing door or window - Ammunition - Acetylene gas - Basement - Black gunpowder - Ballistite - Blasting powder - Calcium carbide - Celluloid -Carbon disulphide - Detonators - Dynamite - Dust explosions - Dry cleaning - Dry dyeing - Explosives - Electric detonators - First-class garage - Fire wall - Fireproof floor or roof - Fire protected - Fire window or fire skylight - Fire door - Fire limits - Fire-resisting roof covering - Flash point - Fire test - Garage - Guncotton - High explosives - Inflammable motion picture films - Incombustible partition - Ignition point - Inflammable compound - License - Motor vehicle - Metal garage - Mill constructed roof - Magazines - Nitroglycerine - Panic bolt - Permit - Definitions-Continued. Party wall - Reel of inflammable motion picture film - Self-closing door - Smokeless powder - Special class garage - Second-class garage - Third-class garage - Trinitrotoluol or TNT - Unpierced fire walls, floor and ceiling - Volatile inflammable liquid. E Extinguishers - Electric fires -Engine relay work - Extension ladders, use of - Equipment and department practice. F Fire-alarm boxes - Fire prevention - Fire drill in factories, theatres, schools, etc., supervision of - Fireworks, inspection of. G Gas fires - General knowledge of city - Grease fires - Grass fires - Garage fires - Garages, inspection. H Hydrants, types and operation - Hydrants, location - Horse-drawn apparatus, care of - Hydraulics - Hydraulics, tables. I Implements, care of - Infiammable compounds, inspection - Inflammable motion picture films. L Laws and ordinances relating to buildings - Ladder lines .- Lime fires - Lumber-yard fires - Ladder trucks, handling of - Lieutenant, examination. M Making up lines of hose - Motor apparatus, care of - Mathematics : Base of right angle triangle, to find - Hypothenuse of right angle triangle, to find - Perpendicular of right angle triangle, to find - Placing of ladders - Discharge in gallons - Number of lengths of hose required - Pressure required to deliver water at any given point in a sandpipe - Pressure exerted at any given point by water from tank in a standpipe - Friction loss in hose - Pressure as applied to hose and nozzles - The effective reaching distance of fire streams, cither vertical or horizontal - Capacity in gallons of a pump. N Nitric acid fumes - National Board of Fire Underwriters' tables on-fire engine tests and fire streams - Nozzles, approximate comparison of. O Oil fires - Overhauling burnt material - Opening locked windows - Opening locked doors - Opening locked shutters - Opening locked gates - Opening locked screens. P Paul oxygen apparatus - Playing water carelessly -Playing water from ladders before hose lines are secured - Points of value. - Principal fire hazards. R Regulations relating to explosion and combustibles - Regulations : Manufacture - Packing and marking - Storage - Storage on land - Magazines - Table of distances for magazines - Table of distances for detonators - Storage on vessels - Transportation -Keeping, sale and delivery - Handling Regulations of fire department - Roof lines - Roof ladders, use of - Rules on building inspection. S Single lines of hose - Siamese lines of hose - Standpipes - Sprinklers - Sub-cellar fires- Subway fires - Ship fires - Sawdust fires - Shaving chute fires - Scaling ladders, use of - Special fire causes : Acid works - Agricultural implement factories - Asphalt works -Automobile factories - Automobile garages and repair shops - Bakeries - Bicycle factories - Bleach, dye, and print works - Breweries -and malt houses - Brick and clay works - Broom factories - Brush factories - Candy factories - Canning factories - Car houses (Electricity) - Carpet, yarn and weave mills - Carriage and wagon works - Cement plants - Cereal mills. Special fire causes- Continued. Clothing factories - Cooperage works - Cordage works - Cotton mills - Cotton warehouses - Cotton-seed oil mills -Department stores - Distilleries - Drug risks - Fertilizer factories - Flour mills - Foundries -Fur hat factories - Gas works - Glass works -Glucose and starch works - Glue factories - Grain elevators - Groceries - Insulated wire factories - Knitting mills - Laundries - Linseed oil works - Mattress factories - Metal works - Oilcloth and linoleum works - Packing houses - Paint and varnish works - Paper box factories - Paper mills - Picture frame factories - Potteries - Printing, binding and lithographing - Pulp mills - Rice mills - Roofing paper works - Rubber factories - Sheet metal works - Shoe shops - Sugar houses - Sugar refineries - Tannery and curry shops - Tobacco works - Window shade factories - Wood workers - Woolen mills - T Telephone instructions - Tools, care of - Theatre inspections. U Use and occupancy of buildings. V Ventilation - Valuable points on building inspection. W Water - Water as an added weight on floors - Water tower, handling of - Water supply, high pressure, high and low service - Water and combustibles - Working on unsafe roofs. ‎