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Read the damaged building, find the void, build the shore. 65 pages, one topic each: the drawing first, then the numbers and steps to remember. PDF by email, printable for the station. 65 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers, angles and steps you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 61 topics.
You're standing next to a 6-inch concrete slab on the training pile, and the instructor asks: how many pounds per square foot is that shore going to carry?
You read the load chapter. But the manual gives it to you in paragraphs: unit weights, live loads and debris allowances mixed into one block. On the spot, the numbers don't come back in order.
In the book, that slab is one page. It's drawn in section, 6 inches thick, with 75 psf written right on it, then the rescuer live load and the rubble on top, each number with its source.
The same goes for the V-shape collapse, the search X, shore components, the solid sole raker and sling angles: each one has its own page.
You add the load up in your head, pick the shore and give your answer, without flipping back through the manual.
The job and the standard, reading the building, size-up and hazards, markings and search, cribbing and shoring basics, building the shores, breaching and lifting, moving loads and a final review: 65 pages, all illustrated
Think of it this way:
Drill night. The training officer points at a leaning brick wall and gives you two minutes to say which shore, at what angle and how far apart.
You open the book to the solid sole raker. The raker is drawn at 45° and 60°, with the spacing written on the drawing, and the build always goes in the same order: lumber list, cuts, placement, nail pattern.
Turn the page and the flying raker, the box crib and the search X follow the same layout: drawing on top, numbers in the box.
Structural Collapse Rescue Illustrated is 9 parts and 65 pages, all drawn, with a building-read checklist, a shore selection chart and the numbers to know at the end.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What NFPA 1006 asks of a collapse technician, the 5 stages of collapse rescue, your place in the command structure, the read-the-building sequence, and the lumber, tools and units you'll use
The 4 FEMA construction categories (light frame, heavy wall, heavy floor, precast) and the 5 collapse patterns (lean-to, V-shape, A-frame, pancake, cantilever), each drawn with its voids marked, so you know where to search before you go in
The 360 size-up, signs of secondary collapse, collapse and hazard zones, utilities, building monitoring, air and dust, and the evacuation signals
The structure marking box, sides and quadrants, the search assessment X, victim location marking, hailing and void search, cameras and listening devices
Load paths, estimating the load, wedges and shims, box cribbing and its variations, shore components and how to measure and cut
Spot, T-spot and double-T shores, two-post vertical, laced post, window and door shores, solid sole, split sole and flying rakers, and the sloped floor shore: each one drawn with its parts and measurements, so you can review a build without opening the binder
The triangle breach pattern, clean vs dirty breach, cutting rebar and steel, masonry and wood walls, levers, air bags, center of gravity and sling angles
Rollers and pipes, working with cranes and heavy equipment, selected debris removal, and packaging and removing the victim
The building-read checklist, shore selection at a glance, the numbers to know, the most frequent size-up, marking and shoring mistakes, and the night before the test
At the end of the book: A building-read checklist, a shore selection chart and the numbers to know on one page.
Exam-style questions chapter by chapter, each answer explained, so you find your weak spots before the written test.
The most frequent mistakes in size-up, cribbing and shoring, each one drawn wrong and right, to review the night before.
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Each class topic has its own drawn page, so after a 24-hour shift you review one page instead of a whole chapter.
The numbers to know, the shore selection chart and the exam-style questions put everything in order, so you walk in knowing where each thing goes.
Print one page per drill: the raker, the box crib or the search X, with the numbers already on it, so the crew sees exactly what you're explaining.
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Yes. It doesn't explain the fire service from zero: it starts where your experience ends, with how buildings fall, where the voids form and how each shore is built.
It follows the structural collapse job performance requirements in NFPA 1006 (2021 edition), the FEMA US&R Structural Collapse Technician materials and the USACE US&R Shoring Operations Guide. Shores, markings and load estimates use the FEMA/USACE methods taught nationwide, not one state's rules. If your academy tests to a different edition, the index lets you check each topic against your course binder.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book. It isn't published or endorsed by NFPA, FEMA, USACE, Pro Board, IFSAC or any state academy, and it doesn't give you a certificate or training hours: your certification comes from your academy's course and exams.
No. It's for review alongside your class and your hours on the pile. Loads and measurements must be checked against your course materials, and the patient packaging pages are study concepts only: always follow your local medical protocols and medical direction.
No. They're written for this book, chapter by chapter, with each answer explained, so you can find your weak spots. They aren't official exam questions.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as a PDF by email, to the address you enter at checkout.
No. It's a one-time payment.
Yes. The PDF is printable: print the whole book or just the pages you want to keep at the station.
You have 30 days. We refund everything if the file won't open, if the book isn't what you see on this page, if you were charged twice or if the email doesn't arrive: just email us.
No more rereading the manual without it sticking.
The search X, the raker, the box crib: you see them drawn and you're set.
You walk into the written test and the practical knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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