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The National Emergency Training Center (NETC) Library is your primary information resource for fire, emergency management, and other all-hazards subjects. We support National Fire Academy and Emergency Management Institute instructional and research programs by providing relevant collections, tools for resource discovery, and classroom-based and individual research assistance.

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Burnt: A memoir of fighting fire
Communication and catastrophic events: Strategic risk and crisis management
Emergency and disaster exercises: A practitioner's guide to exercise design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning
Fire weather: A true story from a hotter world
A guide to fire and gas detection design in hazardous industries
High-rise buildings
Integrating mental health and disability into public health disaster preparedness and response
Introducing, designing and conducting research for paramedics
Leadership in dangerous situations
Medicine at the margins: EMS workers in urban America
New York firefighting and the American Revolution
Nuking Alaska

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