Product Description
This publication showcases the various types of vehicles that are utilized by "First Responders" be it from the public sector or private industry to respond to an assortment of emergency incidents. Specifically, this book will take a look at vehicles that are utilized as mobile command units by Incident Commanders to maintain command and control of an incident. In addition, this publication will spotlight emergency response support vehicles that can be called for by an Incident Commander at the scene of an incident to provide additional resources to emergency response personnel. Because of the specific nature of the vehicles covered in this book, the reader will soon discover that some of the units are similar in design for the most part, but then again that they also differ in the way that they are laid out and for the function that they were designed for. Besides the photos, readers will also learn a little more about the history of the Incident Management System and how important it is for an Incident Commander to have the availability of a command unit.
About the Author
After becoming an Eagle Scout, I was a member of the Dearborn Heights Police Explorer Post 1809 for three years. I worked for the Dearborn Heights Police Department in a civilian capacity (clerk/dispatcher) for 13 months after high school. I am a third generation Ford Motor Company employee. The Ford Motor Company has employed me for 32 years, all of which have been spent in security. I started as a guard at the Research & Engineering Center in Dearborn, Michigan. I was promoted to a clerk's position and was assigned to the Ford Rouge Center Fire Services and Rouge Center Security. For a few months in 1989 I was assigned to the Corporate Communications Center (dispatch) in Dearborn as one of the original members of this department. On July 16, 1989 I was promoted to a security supervisor at the R&E Center where I served as a shift operations supervisor, then fire evacuation and training supervisor. Shortly after that, I was placed in charge of special events, emergency preparedness and training while still assigned to the Research & Engineering Center. In late 2000 I was assigned to Corporate Security where I was the supervisor responsible for emergency preparedness and special events. In early 2001, I returned back to the Rouge where once again I was a shift supervisor. In 2003, I was re-assigned back to being responsible for training at the Rouge Center for security personnel. During the course of 2005, the company outsourced uniformed security/fire services that were provided by Ford's in-house security organization in North America. I still remained a Ford employee in the Ford security department, and as a result of the changes, my duties and responsibilities were changed to being involved with business continuity planning and I was re-assigned to the Corporate Security/Fire Department at World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan once again. In 1997 the Ford Motor Company Research & Engineering Center and the City of Dearborn
